Former President Barack Obama on Friday revealed his favorite list of music, movies, and books for 2022. The 44th President of the United States said he enjoys sharing his favorite entertainment lists across various niches with the world at the end of every year. He even asked for suggestions on great books, songs or artists, and movies that he missed. He made his disclosures on Twitter.
“I always look forward to sharing my list of favorite books, movies, and music with all of you,” he tweeted. “First up, here are some of the books I read and enjoyed this year. Let me know which books I should check out in 2023.”
Here then are Obama’s favorite books for 2022:
· The Light We Carry – Michelle Obama
· Sea of Tranquility – Emily St. John Mandel
· Trust – Hernan Diaz
· The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams – Stacy Schiff
· The Furrows: A Novel – Namwali Serpell
· South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation – Imani Perry
· The School for Good Mothers – Jessamine Chan
· Black Cake – Charmaine Wilkerson
· Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands – Kate Beaton
· An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us – Ed Yong
· Liberation Day – George Saunders
· The Candy House – Jennifer Egan
· Afterlives – Abdulrazak Gurnah
Obama went on to declare that “I saw some great movies this year – here are some of my favorites. What did I miss?”
· The Fabelmans
· Decision to Leave
· The Woman King
· Aftersun
· Emily the Criminal
· Petite Maman
· Descendant
· Happening
· Till
· Everything Everywhere All At Once
· Top Gun: Maverick
· The Good Boss
· Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
· A Hero
· Hit the Road
· Tar
· After Yang
On the songs and music artists he enjoyed this year, this is what Obama said: “I always enjoy sharing my end-of-year music playlist with all of you – and this year we heard a lot of great songs. Here are some of my favorites. Are there any songs or artists I should check out?”
· The Heart Part 5 – Kendrick Lamar
· Titi Me Pregunto – Bad Bunny
· Pof – Ari Lennox
· Something in the Orange – Zach Bryan
· Last Last – Burna Boy
· American Teenager – Ethel Cain
· Communion in My Cup – Tank and The Bangas featuring The Ton3s
· Pull Up – Koffee
· Problem With It – Plains
· Calm Down – Rema
· Sunshine – Steve Lacy featuring Foushee
· Round Midnight – Adam Blackstone & Jazmine Sullivan
· About Damn Time – Lizzo
· Shirt – SZA
· Saoko – Rosalia
· Rush – Ayra Starr
· Break My Soul – Beyonce
· Life is Good – SiR featuring Scribz Riley
· That’s Where I Am – Maggie Rogers
· Dodinin – Leyla McCalla
· Feelings 4 You – Xavier Omar
· Belize – Danger Mouse & Black Thought featuring MF DOOM
· Tamagotchi – Omar Apollo
· Home Maker – Sudan Archives
· Where I Go – NxWorries (Anderson Paak & Knxwledge) featuring H.E.R
A closer look shows that three of the 25 songs the former president listed were sung by three Nigerian music artists, and 13 of the songs by artistes nominated for the 2023 Grammy Awards. But what about his favorite TV series? Did anyone also notice that the first book on the list was written by the former president’s wife, Michelle?