(Notice the occasional overlap with thechoicesof EW critic Leah Greenblatt.)

“The scope of it was immense,“he said.

Aliens are about to invade!”

‘The Candy House,’ by Jennifer Egan

‘The Candy House,’ by Jennifer Egan.Scribner

Non-fiction titles:

Fact or fiction, Obama knows that reading keeps the mind sharp.

Check them out below:

Crying in H Mart

The cover of ‘Crying in H Mart’.Knopf

Leave the World Behind

Ecco

June Books Gallery

Riverhead Books

Sally Rooney, Normal People Credit: Hogarth

Hogarth

Toni Morrison

Deborah Feingold/Corbis via Getty Images

educated

Random House

Image

Penguin Random House

recommended-to-malia

Vintage Espanol/Harper Perennial/Henry Holt and Company/Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

summer-2016

HarperCollins/Anchor Books/Grove Atlantic

august-2015

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group/Text Publishing Company/Henry Holt and Company

classics

Saddleback Educational Publishing/Wordsworth/Dramatists Play Service

nov-2014

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers/Puffin Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux

favorites

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group/Simon & Schuster/Farrar, Straus and Giroux

novels

Random House Publishers India Pvt. Limited/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Little, Brown and Company

books-about-presidents

Ballantine Books/HarperCollins/Simon & Schuster

environmental-political

Princeton University Press/Penguin Publishing Group/Picador

non-fiction

Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/W.W. Norton