What President Obama is reading this summer

Via the L.A. Times: 

• Abraham Verghese, CUTTING FOR STONE
• David Grossman, TO THE END OF THE LAND
• Ward Just, RODIN'S DEBUTANTE
• Daniel Woodrell, THE BAYOU TRILOGY 
• Isabel Wilkerson, THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS

And the National Review adds:

• Emma Donoghue, ROOM
• Marianna Baer, FROST
• Aldous Huxley, BRAVE NEW WORLD

I had earlier read on Twitter that the bookstore the President went to was refusing to release his choices. Like he has anything of which to be ashamed! Maybe he was picking up the HUNGER GAMES trilogy for the kids and felt embarrassed? Maybe he's supposed to not read anything besides his briefings (in which case, not so much a vacation as "work in a different place")? I haven't read any of these but I find the list solid. How about you? 

Filmbook: Your Oscar Nominees Reading List

• Charles Portis, TRUE GRIT (10 nominations, including Best Picture and a very young Best Supporting Actress)
• Ben Mezrich, THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES ("The Social Network," discussed here to death; 8 nominations including Best Picture)
• Aron Ralston, BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE ("127 Hours," 6 nominations including Best Picture)
• Daniel Woodrell, WINTER'S BONE (4 nominations including Best Picture)
• David Lindsay-Abaire, "Rabbit Hole" (okay it's a play, but still -- 1 nomination)
• Chuck Hogan, PRINCE OF THIEVES ("The Town," one nomination)

The ceremony is February 27 and the one book on this list I would really like to read despite having already seen the movie is TRUE GRIT. I looked, I waited for the library book, and... I threw caution to the winds.