President Obama's Summer Reading List

President Obama brought these six books with him to Martha's Vineyard.

By
ALI WEINBERG
August 13, 2015, 4:27 PM
4 min read

— -- You can't golf all day.

President Obama packed plenty to read for his two weeks vacationing with his family in Martha's Vineyard.

Here are Obama's six summer reads, a mix of critically acclaimed fiction and nonfiction, obtained first by ABC News:

  • All That Is, by James Salter
  • All The Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr
  • The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert
  • The Lowland, by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Between The World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Washington: A Life, by Ron Chernow