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Barack Obama and family went book shopping on Saturday in Washington DC. I love how this article comments how both his daughters wore jeans – as if what the president’s daughters wear was remotely important. The Obamas bought the following books: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin [...]

Michelle Obama has a new book on the way: “American Grown: How the White House Kitchen Garden Inspires Families, Schools, and Communities” will be released in April 2012.

President Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List for 2011.

President Barack Obama is going to be reading Jonathan Franzen’s new novel Freedom. Of course, he didn’t have to pay for it. The folks at the Bunch of Grapes bookstore on Martha’s Vineyard gave him an ARC (advance reader copy) that they had knocking around in the back.

During the heat of the presidential campaign and the months following Obama’s win, there was a hysteria among collectors looking to snap up signed copies of Barack Obama’s books, Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope leading up to the sale of a signed first edition Dreams from My Father for a staggering [...]

The Age has done an interview with 16 Australian Football League players on their reading habits. I hardly expected to see recomendations for Chomsky in a footballers list; the world proves that I should quit trying to judge a book by it’s cover. JOEL BOWDEN – RICHMOND Understanding Power, a collection of talks by Noam [...]

Take a look at the children’s books Michelle Obama likes to read with children.

Who was Thomas Paine? The BBC explains. Barack Obama fans should take note. Paine threw his lot in with those Americans who were thirsting for independence from Britain. In January 1776 he published a short pamphlet that earned him the title The Father of the American Revolution. Titled simply, Common Sense, the work has been [...]

According to graphic novel publishers Papercutz Barack Obama has made a cameo in their newest Hardy Boys graphic novel. President Obama also has a cameo apearance in THE HARDY BOYS Graphic Novel #16 “Shhhhhh!” also from Papercutz. Unlike his other more recent and highly-publicised comicbook appearances, as either a Conan-like Barbarian or Spider-Man’s partner-in-crimefighting, his [...]

In addition to presiding over a country, Barack Obama will be presiding over the ninth National Book Festival along with his wife, Michelle.