A Great Book pairs Barack Obama with six readers on Audible

Audible's six-part series pairs Barack Obama with Tom Hanks, Ta-Nehisi Coates and four other guests, each discussing one formative book.

A Great Book with Barack Obama has reached its announced 24 September debut. The Audible and Higher Ground production is a six-part conversation series, rather than an audiobook reading of any one of its featured titles. Audible's current UK listing presents the series with a purchase option; listeners elsewhere should

check their own marketplace for access and terms. Each episode places a different guest alongside Obama to discuss a book that has stayed with him. Tom Hanks opens with Marilynne Robinson's Gilead . Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time ; historian Jill Lepore takes Robert Penn Warren's All the

King's Men ; Ben Rhodes joins for John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy . Percival Everett discusses Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon , and Lauren Groff takes Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses . That pairing is the listening guide: readers can choose an episode by book, guest or theme without mistaking the

conversation for a full performance of the novel. Audible lists the complete audio at five hours and 38 minutes . The company's announcement, updated on September 17, gives the episode order; its UK catalogue page is the better place to check current regional purchase choices. The series gives literary audio listeners

a route back into six established books through discussion, rather than promising new adaptations of them. Those who want the complete text of any selection will need a separate edition. Headline image: Source: Audible. Official Audible and Higher Ground promotional artwork supplied on Audible's August 10 newsroom

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