Great article on Obama and reading

The New York times ran this article on Obama and how books have influenced his life and work. Highly recomended read.

From the article is a list of books that have influenced him,

A Reading List That Shaped a President

Some of President-elect Barack Obama’s favored reading matter as mentioned in this article:

* The Bible
* “Parting the Waters,” Taylor Branch
* “Self-Reliance,” Ralph Waldo Emerson
* Gandhi’s autobiography
* “Team of Rivals,” Doris Kearns Goodwin
* “The Golden Notebook,” Doris Lessing
* Lincoln’s collected writings
* “Moby-Dick,” Herman Melville
* “Song of Solomon,” Toni Morrison
* Works of Reinhold Niebuhr
* “Gilead,” Marilynne Robinson
* Shakespeare’s tragedies


I'v read "Self-Relianace", "Team of Rivals", "Gilead", lots of the Bible, and some of Lincoln's stuff. I can see how those works influenced Obama, because they all influenced me as well.