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What’s the President Reading?

Reader’s Advisor Online is compiling lists of Barack Obama’s reading, including recent reading, earlier reading, and his favourite books.  Includes links to the sources for all titles on the list.
Some recent books:
Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy — Until You’re 80 and Beyond by Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge, M. D.
Critical: What [...]

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Obama Bookarama

PW reports lots of books about President-Elent Barack Obama in the offing, and the LA Times reports that “there are at least nine books about the president-elect and the 2008 campaign coming out in the next few months,” among which:

NBC’s Chuck Todd and polling expert Sheldon Gawiser will co-write How Obama Won, “a state-by-state guide [...]

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Lamenting the Bestsellers

Tom Shone, in Intelligent Life’s Summer 2008 issue, laments bestsellers lists in the UK and the U.S.  The NYT bestsellers list looks pretty erudite compared with the UK’s top sellers, which consist mostly of books by celebrities and reality-show has-beens, until we realise that the NYT shunted off the self-help and advice books to another [...]