Oprah’s 100th Book Club Pick Included on Obama’s Summer Reading List

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The wait is finally over!

Earlier today, former president Barack Obama posted his highly anticipated summer reading list to Twitter. The list features nine titles, including Hello Beautiful, by Ann Napolitano, which Oprah selected in March as her 100^th Book Club pick!

Inspired by Little Women, Hello Beautiful traces a family of four sisters through three decades of romance, heartbreak, redemption, and forgiveness. “I could actually weep right now thinking about the joy that I felt while reading this book,” Oprah confessed when she sat down with Napolitano in April. Hopefully, Obama is packing tissues in his beach tote this summer!

This is not the first Book Club pick that Obama has selected for his summer reading list. His 2020 list included three of Oprah’s consecutive selections: James McBride’s Deacon King Kong (Oprah’s 85th pick), Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste (Oprah’s 86th pick), and Marilynne Robinson’s Jack (Oprah’s 87^th pick).

Hello Beautiful is one of six novels Obama selected this summer. His nonfiction picks skew toward some heavier subject matter. Poverty, by America is a deep dive into American wealth inequality written by Matthew Desmond, who won the 2017 Pulitzer for his book Evicted. Jonathan Eig’s biography King: A Life offers a new view of MLK, and David Grann’s The Wager tells the story of a real-life shipwreck.

You can check out all of Obama’s summer selections in the tweet below.

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