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After taking office in 2009, and almost every July since, Barack Obama has shared his summer reading with the public. It’s become something of an annual ritual in the publishing world; the former president’s literary endorsement boosts a book’s profile roughly as much as winning a National Book Award, according to Kristen McLean, an analyst at Circana, which tracks book sales. (Neither Donald Trump nor Joe Biden has opted to take up the tradition.)
