EdSantiago

Eduardo Santiago

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28 books

Audio

Lionboy: The Chase
Jeeves in the Morning
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Stardust
Being Human
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
The Fourth Bear

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10 books

Barack Obama's 2025 Summer Reads

Mark Twain
Abundance
Rosarita
The Book of Records
King of Ashes
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
A Marriage at Sea

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15 books

Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
The Maniac
Poverty, by America
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
The Vaster Wilds
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

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10 books

Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2024

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Intermezzo
Patriot: A Memoir
Orbital
The Anthropologists
Stolen Pride
In Ascension

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11 books

Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025

Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
Flashlight
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
The Wilderness
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
North Sun
1929

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4 books

Brain

The Candy House
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness

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3 books

Culture

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith In Troubled Times
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

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1 book

Deferred

House of Leaves

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36 books

Dnf

Mother Tongue
Dreamland - A Self-Help manual
The Art of Racing in the Rain
The Shadow King
Polly Pocket And The Ice Kingdom Adventures
The Constant Rabbit
Rooted

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24 books

Do Not Read

The Upgrade: How the Female Brain Gets Stronger and Better in Midlife and Beyond
Tastes Like War
Loot
People Person
The Water Museum
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

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3 books

Evolution

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

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21 books

Favorites

What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
A Primate's Memoir
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
Flowers for Algernon
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

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18 books

Favorites 2018

Thief Of Time
Hogfather
The Word for World Is Forest
There There
How to Change Your Mind The New Science of Psychedelics
Infidel

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2 books

History

Fascism
Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith In Troubled Times

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1 book

Lgbtq

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

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12 books

Morality

Becoming
Such a Fun Age
Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
Exhalation
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them

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15 books

NEA Big Read 2024-2025

The Best We Could Do
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
Postcolonial Love Poem
Infinite Country
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Homegoing
Deaf Republic

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656 books

Owned

Every Last One
Tomatoland
Goodbye Phone, Hello World
Democracy in America
True Names: and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier
Exploring Expect

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9 books

Politics

Banned Book Club
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
Becoming
Fascism
The Three Languages of Politics
Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith In Troubled Times

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12 books

Required Reading

Becoming
Long Walk To Freedom
They Called Us Enemy
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships
Ancillary Justice
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

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12 books

Science

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
The Kissing Bug
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control
The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World

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6 books

Wish Id Dnfed

The Candy House
The Book of Form and Emptiness
Station Eleven
Doomsday Match
Midnight's Children
The Pepsi Cola Addict

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21 books

Wishlist

The Bluest Eye
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Delusions of Gender
Against the Day
Middlemarch
Eating Animals

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146 books

Woc

Kaikeyi
Mapping the heavens
Split Tooth
This Is How You Lose the Time War
The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy
Black Sun
Daphne's Dive