The wait is finally over!

Earlier today, former president Barack Obama posted his highly anticipated summer reading list to Twitter. The list features nine titles, including Hello Beautiful, by Ann Napolitano, which Oprah selected in March as her 100th Book Club pick!

Inspired by Little Women, Hello Beautiful traces a family of four sisters through three decades of romance, heartbreak, redemption, and forgiveness. “I could actually weep right now thinking about the joy that I felt while reading this book,” Oprah confessed when she sat down with Napolitano in April. Hopefully, Obama is packing tissues in his beach tote this summer!

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This is not the first Book Club pick that Obama has selected for his summer reading list. His 2020 list included three of Oprah’s consecutive selections: James McBride’s Deacon King Kong (Oprah’s 85th pick), Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste (Oprah’s 86th pick), and Marilynne Robinson’s Jack (Oprah’s 87th pick).

Hello Beautiful is one of six novels Obama selected this summer. His nonfiction picks skew toward some heavier subject matter. Poverty, by America is a deep dive into American wealth inequality written by Matthew Desmond, who won the 2017 Pulitzer for his book Evicted. Jonathan Eig’s biography King: A Life offers a new view of MLK, and David Grann’s The Wager tells the story of a real-life shipwreck.

You can check out all of Obama’s summer selections in the tweet below.

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Charley Burlock
Associate Books Editor

Charley is a Books Editor at Oprah Daily where she writes about authors, writing, and reading. She is also a freelance writer and audio journalist whose work has been featured in the Atlantic, the Los Angeles Review, Agni, and on the Apple News Today podcast. She is currently completing an MFA in creative nonfiction at NYU and working on an essay collection about the intersection of grief, landscape, and urban design.