As he did each year when he was president, Barack Obama shared a list of his favorite books of 2017:
- The Power by Naomi Alderman
- Grant by Ron Chernow
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
- Janesville: An American Story by Amy Goldstein
- Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
- Five-Carat Soul by James McBride
- Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
- Dying: A Memoir by Cory Taylor
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
- Coach Wooden and Me by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Basketball (and Other Things) by Shea Serrano