These were Obama’s favorite movies, songs and books this year

Are you still doing last minute holiday shopping? You might want to check out former President Barack Obama’s end-of-the-year tradition for inspiration. This Friday he shared favorite movies, songs and books of the year.

Kendrick Lamar’s “The Heart Part 5”, Stephen Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” and his wife Michelle Obama’s book “The Light We Carry” made the lists, though the former Illinois senator admitted he’s a bit biased on that last one.

Here are the full lists.

Books:

·       The Light We Carry – Michelle Obama

·       Sea of Tranquility – Emily St. John Mandel

·       Trust – Hernan Diaz

·       The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams – Stacy Schiff

·       The Furrows: A Novel – Namwali Serpell

·       South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation – Imani Perry

·       The School for Good Mothers – Jessamine Chan

·       Black Cake – Charmaine Wilkerson

·       Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands – Kate Beaton

·       An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us – Ed Young

·       Liberation Day – George Saunders

·       The Candy House – Jennifer Egan

·       Afterlives – Abdulrazak Gurnah

Movies:

·       The Fabelmans – directed by Stephen Spielberg

·       Decision to Leave – directed by Park Chan-wook

·       The Woman King – directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood

·       Aftersun – directed by Charlotte Wells

·       Emily the Criminal – directed by John Patton Ford

·       Petite Maman – directed by Céline Sciamma

·       Descendant – directed by Margaret Brown (Obama also noted that his company Higher Ground produced this one)

·       Happening – directed by Audrey Diwan

·       Till – directed by Chinonye Chukwu

·       Everything Everywhere All at Once – directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

·       Top Gun: Maverick – directed by Joseph Kosinski

·       The Good Boss – directed by Fernando León

·       Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy – directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi

·       A Hero – directed by Asghar Farhadi

·       Hit the Road – directed by Panah Panahi

·       Tár – directed by Todd Field

·       After Yang – directed by Kogonada

Music:

·       The Heart Part 5 – Kendrick Lamar

·       Tití Me Preguntó – Bad Bunny

·       Pof – Annie Lennox

·       Something in the Orange – Zach Byran

·       Last Last – Burna Boy

·       American Teenager – Ethel Cain

·      Communion in my Cup – Tank and the Bangas ft. the Ton3s

·       Pull Up – Koffee

·       Saoko – Rosalía

·       Rush – Arya Starr

·       Break My Soul – Beyoncé

·       Life is Good – SIR ft. Scribz Riley

·       That’s Where I Am – Maggie Rogers

·       Dodinin – Leyla McCalla

·       Sunshine – Steve Lacy ft. Fousheé

·       Calm Down – Rema

·       Problem with It – Plains

·       Feelings 4 You – Xavier Omär

·       Belize – Danger Mouse & Black Thought ft. MF DOOM

·       Tamagotchi – Omar Apollo

·       Home Maker – Sudan Archives

·       Where I Go – NxWorries (Anderson .Paak & Knxwledge ft. H.E.R.)

·       Shirt – SZA

·       About Damn Time – Lizzo

·       ‘Round Midnight – Adam Blackstone & Jazmine Sullivan

Some of the included artists responded after Obama released his lists Friday.

“Did not have a former president including my anti-war, anti-patriotism fake pop song on his year end list on my 2022 bingo,” said Ethel Cain.

“Best holiday gift EVER,” said Jennifer Egan.

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