WATCH, READ, AND LISTEN LIKE BARACK OBAMA WITH HIS BEST-OF-2018 LISTS
12/28/18
As 2018 draws to a close, it’s time for all those end-of-year lists again. Barack Obama, America’s most-admired man for the 11th consecutive year, posted his on Instagram today (Dec. 28).
“It gives me a moment to pause and reflect on the year through the books, movies, and music that I found most thought-provoking, inspiring, or just plain loved,” Obama wrote. “It also gives me a chance to highlight talented authors, artists, and storytellers–some who are household names and others who you may not have heard of before.”
Here are Obama’s complete lists of his favorites:
Obama’s favorite songs of 2018
You can listen to Obama’s most-loved tunes on this Spotify playlist from Quartz.
“Apes**it” by The Carters
“Bad Bad News” by Leon Bridges
“Could’ve Been” by H.E.R. (feat. Bryson Tiller)
“Disco Yes” by Tom Misch (feat. Poppy Ajudhja)
“Ekombe” by Jupiter & Okwess
“Every Time I Hear That Song” by Brandi Carlile
“Girl Goin’ Nowhere” by Ashley McBryde
“Historia De Un Amor” by Tonina (Feat. Javier Limón and Tali Ribenstein)
“I Like It” by Cardi B (feat. Bad Bunny and J Balvin)
“Kevin’s Heart” by J. Cole
“King For A Day” by Anderson East
“Love Lies” by Khalid & Normani
“Make Me Feel” by Janelle Monáe
“Mary Don’t You Weep” (Piano & A Microphone 1983 Version) by Prince
“My Own Thing” by Chance the Rapper (feat. Joey Purp)
“Need a Little Time” by Courtney Barnett
“Nina Cried Power” by Hozier (feat. Mavis Staples)
“Nterini” by Fatoumata Diawara
“One Trick Ponies” by Kurt Vile
“Turnin’ Me Up” by BJ the Chicago Kid
“Wait by the River” by Lord Huron
“Wow Freestyle” by Jay Rock (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
The Great American Songbook by Nancy Wilson (full album)
Obama’s favorite movies of 2018
Here are the trailers for Obama’s top pick of films from the year.
Annihilation
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Blindspotting
Burning
The Death of Stalin
Eighth Grade
If Beale Street Could Talk
Leave No Trace
Minding the Gap
The Rider
Roma
Shoplifters
Support the Girls
Won’t You Be My Neighbor
Obama’s favorite books of 2018
These books, praised by the former US president, have appeared in his previous lists:
Becoming, by Michelle Obama
An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones
Americanah, by Chimamamnda Ngozi Adichie
The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die, by Keith Payne
Educated, by Tara Westover
Factfulness, by Hans Rosling
Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging, by Alex Wagner
A Grain of Wheat, by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
A House for Mr Biswas, by V.S. Naipaul
How Democracies Die, by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History, by Mitch Landrieu
Long Walk to Freedom, by Nelson Mandela
The New Geography of Jobs, by Enrico Moretti
The Return, by Hisham Matar
Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
Warlight, by Michael Ondaatje
Why Liberalism Failed, by Patric Deneed
The World As It Is, by Ben Rhodes
And these are Obama’s previously unmentioned favorite books of 2018:
Penguin Random House
American Prison, by Shane Bauer
Arthur Ashe: A Life, by Raymond Arsenault
Asymmetry, by Lisa Halliday
Feel Free, by Zadie Smith
Florida, by Lauren Groff
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, by David W. Blight
Immigrant, Montana, by Amitava Kumar
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, by Denis Johnson
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Inteligence, by Max Tegmark
There There, by Tommy Orange
Washington Black, by Esi Edugyan
https://qz.com/quartzy/1510416/barack-obamas-favorite-songs-movies-and-books-of-2018/