Barack Obama offers his opinion on the novels that we should all add to our summer reading lists.

Barack Obama offers his opinion on the novels that we should all endeavor to add to our summer reading lists.

In keeping with his annual custom of publishing his summer reading list, the former president-turned-cultural tastemaker posted "some books I'm reading this summer" on Thursday.

His social media post requested that readers "check them out and let me know what I should be reading next."

The novels on the list, which include thrillers ("All the Sinners Bleed," "Birnam Wood") and non-fiction ("Poverty, By America," "King: A Life," and "The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder"), may be recognizable to readers who keep up with the year's most talked-about releases.

Obama chose these nine novels for his list of suggestions:

• "Poverty, By America," by Matthew Desmond
• "Small Mercies," by Dennis Lehane
• "King: A Life," by Jonathan Eig
• "Hello Beautiful," by Ann Napolitano
• "All the Sinners Bleed," by S.A. Cosby
• "Birnam Wood," by Eleanor Catton
• "What Napoleon Could Not Do," by DK Nnuro
• "The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder" by David Grann
• "Blue Hour," by Tiffany Clarke Harrison

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A few of Obama's suggestions, including "Hello Beautiful," "All the Sinners Bleed," and "The Wager," were also included on Amazon's list of the finest novels of the year (so far). The runners-up were "King: A Life," "Small Mercies," and "Poverty, By America."

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The 100th book to be featured in Oprah's book club was Napolitano's "Hello Beautiful," which pays homage to Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women," earlier this year.