"Cum 2018 se apropie de final, continui o traditie preferata a mea si impartasesc listele de sfarsit de an. Imi iau un ragaz si reflectez asupra anului prin cartile, filmele si muzica pe care le-am gasit cele mai provocatoare, inspiratoare sau care mi-au placut pur si simplu. In plus, am ocazia de a scoate in evidenta autori talentati, artisti si povestitori, unii cunoscuti, altii de care poate nu ati auzit pana acum", se arata in postarea de pe Facebook a fostului sef de stat.
Topul cartilor preferate de Barack Obama in 2018
  • Cartea de memorii "Becoming", scrisa de Michelle Obama, despre care spune ca in mod evident este preferata sa
  • "An American Marriage", de Tayari Jones
  • "Americanah", de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • "The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die", de Keith Payne
  • "Educated", de Tara Westover
  • "Factfulness", de Hans Rosling
  • "Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging", de Alex Wagner
  • "A Grain of Wheat", de Ngugi wa Thiong’o
  • "A House for Mr Biswas", de V.S. Naipaul
  • "How Democracies Die", de Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
  • "In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History", de Mitch Landrieu
  • "Long Walk to Freedom", de Nelson Mandela
  • "The New Geography", de Jobs by Enrico Moretti
  • "The Return", de Hisham Matar
  • "Things Fall Apart", de Chinua Achebe
  • "Warlight", de Michael Ondaatje
  • "Why Liberalism Failed", de Patrick Deneen
  • "The World As It Is", de Ben Rhodes
  • "American Prison", de Shane Bauer
  • "Arthur Ashe: A Life", de Raymond Arsenault
  • "Asymmetry", de Lisa Halliday
  • "Feel Free", de Zadie Smith
  • "Florida", de Lauren Groff
  • "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom", de David W. Blight
  • "Immigrant, Montana", de Amitava Kumar
  • "The Largesse of the Sea Maiden", de Denis Johnson
  • "Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence", de Max Tegmark
  • "There There", de Tommy Orange
  • "Washington Black", de Esi Edugyan
    • Topul filmelor preferate de Barack Obama in 2018
  • "Annihilation"
  • "Black Panther"/ "Pantera neagra"
  • "BlacKkKlansman"/ "Agent provoKkKator"
  • "Blindspotting"
  • "Burning"/ "In flacari"
  • "The Death of Stalin"/ "Moartea lui Stalin"
  • "Eighth Grade"
  • "If Beale Street Could Talk"
  • "Leave No Trace"
  • "Minding the Gap"
  • "The Rider"
  • "Roma"
  • "Shoplifters"/ "O afacere de familie"
  • "Support the Girls"
  • "Won’t You Be My Neighbor?"