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? 

Congratulations to the winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards, announced last night here in Manhattan:

Fiction: Jennifer Egan, A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD
Nonfiction: Isabel Wilkerson, THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS
Biography: Sarah Bakewell, HOW TO LIVE
Poetry: C.D. Wright, ONE WITH OTHERS
Criticism: Clare Cavanagh, LYRIC POETRY AND MODERN POLITICS: RUSSIA, POLAND, AND THE WEST
Autobiography: Darin Strauss, HALF A LIFE

...I've got some reading to do.

Amazon Picks 10 Best Books of 2010

Preempting Publishers Weekly's list, typically the earliest, by about four days. New-media whippersnappers!

Strong disagreement here over #7 and I've never even heard of MATTERHORN. I guess it's time to start working on my own list. What do you all say?