Hobi Membaca, Ini Dia Deretan Buku Favorit yang Dibaca Barack Obama di 2019

CakapCakap – Cakap People! Barack Obama turun ke platform media sosial pada akhir pekan lalu untuk berbagi tentang buku bacaan favoritnya di tahun 2019. Ini menunjukkan bahwa mantan presiden AS itu masih sangat kutu buku.

Daftar buku bacaan tahunan yang sekarang tradisional berkisar pada sejarah, ekonomi, dan literatur pemenang penghargaan dan bahkan memilih beberapa rekomendasi untuk penggemar olahraga.

As we wind down 2019, I wanted to share with you my annual list of favorites that made the last year a little brighter. We’ll start with books today — movies and music coming soon. I hope you enjoy these as much as I did. pic.twitter.com/l5qTGkAPok

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) December 28, 2019

“Ketika kita menyelesaikan tahun 2019, saya ingin berbagi dengan Anda daftar favorit tahunan saya yang membuat tahun lalu sedikit lebih cerah,” kata Obama dalam sebuah postingan di Twitter. 

“Kita akan mulai dengan buku hari ini – film dan musik segera hadir. Saya harap Anda menikmati ini seperti saya. “

Selama delapan tahun berada di di Oval Office saat menjabat sebagai presiden AS, Barack Obama terkenal sebagai orang yang sangat hobi membaca dan selalu melahap buku-buku dan secara teratur mendukung isi dan manfaat dari kata-kata yang tertulis dalam buku-buku tersebut. 

Dalam postingan yang lebih panjang di Instagram, Obama mengatakan daftar itu telah menjadi “tradisi kecil yang menyenangkan.”

“Karena sementara kita masing-masing memiliki banyak hal yang membuat kita sibuk — pekerjaan dan kehidupan keluarga, komitmen sosial dan sukarela — buku-buku seperti sastra dan seni dapat meningkatkan pengalaman kita sehari-hari,” tulisnya. “Mereka adalah kain yang membantu menata kehidupan.”

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Over the next few days, I’ll be sharing my annual list of favorites — books, films, and music — with all of you. This has become a fun little tradition for me, and I hope it is for you, too. Because while each of us has plenty that keeps us busy—work and family life, social and volunteer commitments—outlets like literature and art can enhance our day-to-day experiences. They’re the fabric that helps make up a life—the album that lifts us up after a long day, the dog-eared paperback we grab off the shelf to give to a friend, the movie that makes us think and feel in a new way, works that simply help us escape for a bit. To start, here are the books that made the last year a little brighter for me. Most of them came out in 2019, but a few were older ones that were new to me this year. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

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Nah, inilah deretan buku bacaan yang jadi favorit presiden AS ke-44 Barack Obama di tahun 2019:

• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
• The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
• Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
• How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
• Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
• Lot: Stories by Bryan Washington
• Normal People by Sally Rooney
• The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
• The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
• Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
• Solitary by Albert Woodfox
• The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
• Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
• Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
• We Live in Water: Stories by Jess Walter
• A Different Way to Win: Dan Rooney’s Story from the Super Bowl to the Rooney Rule by Jim Rooney
• The Sixth Man by Andre Iguodala