A Promised Land
By
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
2020 • 768 pages

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Average rating4.3

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61 books

The Ultimate Best Books of 2020 List from 41 Lists

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Hardcover
The Vanishing Half
Leave the World Behind
Transcendent Kingdom
Luster
Deacon King Kong
Hamnet
Caste

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50 books

The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020

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Hardcover
Active measures the secret history of disinformation and political warfare
The Art of Her Deal
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
Begin Again
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Breath
The Book of Eels

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413 books

Audience Adult

ion514
Ian
Doctor Sleep
Berserk Deluxe Edition Volume 1
Berserk Deluxe Edition Volume 2
The Martian
Tigerman
Ancestral Night
A Memory Called Empire

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92 books

Books Read In 2021

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Hardcover Test Account
We Run the Tides
Aftershocks
Good Company
Florence Adler Swims Forever
Finlay Donovan is Killing It
The Five Wounds
Tokyo Ever After

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37 books

Listened

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Hannah Mallory
The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek
In a Different Key: The Story of Autism
Artemis
Blood in the Water
The Hidden Power of F*cking Up
The Internal Enemy
Where the Crawdads Sing

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20 books

Favorites

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Indira Pranabudi
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Mistborn: The Final Empire
The Midnight Library
A Promised Land
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice

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20 books

Recommended by Michele Obama

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Gone Girl
Educated: A Memoir
Song of Solomon
An American Marriage
Exit West
Goodnight Moon
Life of Pi

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8 books

Memoir

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Stephen Waller
Open heart
Decision Points
American sniper
The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
Black Is the New White
Between the World and Me
Becoming

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6 books

Dnf

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anulekha
Tender is the Night
A Promised Land
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Molecules of Emotion
Dune
Deception

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26 books

Favorites

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Indira
Norwegian Wood
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
This Earth of Mankind
Pachinko
Factfulness
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Beneath a Scarlet Sky

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404 books

Books I Own

Emimia
Emi
The Sea of Monsters
We Were Liars
Since You've Been Gone
Fangirl
Thirteen Reasons Why
Paper Towns
I Am Number Four

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167 books

2021

Emimia
Emi
The Way I Used to Be
The Foxhole Court
The Lost Hero
The Last Olympian
The Battle of the Labyrinth
The Lightning Thief
The Titan's Curse

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59 books

5 Stars

Emimia
Emi
Throne of Glass
Vicious
Crown of Midnight
The Truth About Forever
A Darker Shade of Magic
Heir of Fire
The Assassin's Blade

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73 books

Format Audiobook

ion514
Ian
Ancestral Night
Gideon the Ninth
Here and Now and Then
The Ballad of Black Tom
Akata Witch
Aliens
Where the Forest Meets the Stars

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344 books

Nonfic

katemester
Kate Mester
I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir
Becoming RBG
Across the Tracks
Black Birds in the Sky
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

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374 books

Form Prose

ion514
Ian
Belisarius Cawl: The Great Work
Bloodlines
The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
The Two Towers

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35 books

2022 The 52 Book Club Challenge

ion514
Ian
The Bone Orchard
House of Leaves
A Promised Land
Nettle & Bone
Death Comes to Pemberley
The Final Girl Support Group
Grown

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8 books

Genre Politics

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Ian
A Memory Called Empire
Deaf Republic
Paper Gods
Call Us What We Carry
A Promised Land
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
The Witches Are Coming

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43 books

Non Fiction

ion514
Ian
The deaf community in America
Deaf Again
Marriage, a History
My Bondage and My Freedom
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
I'll Scream Later

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99 books

Source Library

ion514
Ian
Later
Lovecraft Country
Ready Player One
All Systems Red
Rolling in the Deep
I am The Rage

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19 books

Genre Memoir Autobiography

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Ian
Deaf Again
My Bondage and My Freedom
I'll Scream Later
Dawn of the New Everything
Fairest: A Memoir
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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10 books

Genre Biography

ion514
Ian
Jane Austen at Home
A Wolf at the Table
A Promised Land
Un-cook Yourself
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
All Boys Aren't Blue
I'm Glad My Mom Died

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318 books

Memoir Autobiography

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Christina
Lab Girl
It's What I Do : A Photographer's Life of Love and War
Sex Object
Skyfaring
You'll Grow Out of It
Seeking Rapture

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822 books

Nonfiction

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Christina
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera
An American Requiem
A Fair Country
The Happiness Project
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
In Search of Grace

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53 books

Best Books of the Year 2020 by BBC

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A Promised Land
Ready Player Two
Transcendent Kingdom
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
White Ivy
Dearly
The New Wilderness
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