Barack Obama's Reading List
Team Of Rivals: The Political Genius Of Abraham Lincoln
$29.95$13.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
'A wonderful book . . . a remarkable study in leadership' BARACK OBAMA
'A portrait of Lincoln as a virtuosic politician and managerial genius' THE NEW YORK TIMES
When Barack Obama was asked which book he could not live w... Buy or find out more →
Parting The Waters: America In The King Years, 1954-63
$32.95 – Paperback book / Simon & Schuster
Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Branch provides an unsurpassed portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, rise to ... Buy or find out more →
Moby Dick
$13.95 – Paperback book / Oxford University Pr
First published in 1851, Melville's masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick's words, "the greatest novel in American literature." The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerless ... Buy or find out more →
For Whom The Bell Tolls
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds th... Buy or find out more →
The Wealth Of Nation: Books 1-3
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
'It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.'
With this landmark treatise on political economy, Adam Smith paved the way... Buy or find out more →
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day And How They Feel About What They Do
$29.00 – Paperback book / New Press
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel presents "the real American experience" ("Chicago Daily News")--"a magnificent book. . . . A work of art. To read it is to hear America talking" ("Boston Globe"). Buy or find out more →
Power Broker: Robert Moses And The Fall Of New York
$35.95 – Paperback book / Alfred A Knopf
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city an... Buy or find out more →
Cancer Ward
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the 'cancerous' Soviet police state. Withdra... Buy or find out more →
The Power And The Glory
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
The last priest is on the run. During an anti-clerical purge in one of the southern states of Mexico, he is hunted like a hare. Too human for heroism, too humble for martyrdom, the little world 'whisly priest' is neverth... Buy or find out more →
Song Of Solomon
$27.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Song of Soloman is a work of outstanding beauty and power, whose story covers the years from the 1930's to the 1960's in America. At its centre is Macon Dead Jr, the son of a wealthy black property owner, who has been br... Buy or find out more →
Golden Notebook
$24.95$23.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier year. In a red one she records her political life, her di... Buy or find out more →
The Quiet American
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cyn... Buy or find out more →