Former President Barack Obama has some reading recommendations for you, just in time for the holidays.

Obama, continuing a longtime tradition, posted a list of his favorite books of the year on the social platform X.

Two of the books he recommended were finalists for the Kirkus Prize: Angela Flournoy’s The Wilderness, which was also longlisted for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, and Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, also a Booker Prize finalist.

The other novels endorsed by the former president were Susan Choi’s Flashlight; Ethan Rutherford’s North Sun, or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther; and Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know.

For readers who prefer nonfiction, Obama recommended Beth Macy’s Paper Girl; the author is currently running for the U.S. Congress from Virginia as a Democrat. He also picked Jill Lepore’s We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution, Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, Andrew Ross Sorkin’s 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation, and Zadie Smith’s Dead and Alive: Essays.

Finally, Obama recommended The Look, the latest book from his wife, Michelle Obama, co-written with Meredith Koop. “And obviously I’m biased,” he added.

“I hope you find something new to enjoy—and please send any recommendations for me to check out!” Obama wrote.

Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.