Obama's Secret Reading List

The big story on the Internets today is President Obama's summer vacation reading list.

I'm reproducing the list here mostly because I needed an excuse to post the same illustration that Slate.com used for their story on it.

Look at him reading! So cute!

This is the list:

1. The Way Home by George Pelecanos, a crime thriller based in Washington, D.C.

2. Lush Life by Richard Price, a story of race and class set in New York's Lower East Side

3. Tom Friedman's Hot, Flat, and Crowded, on the benefits to America of an environmental revolution

4. John Adams by David McCullough

5. Plainsong by Kent Haruf, a drama about the life of eight different characters living in a Colorado prairie community.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Sounds like a snoozefest, doesn't it?

Now, I have it on good authority that these are the 5 books he is really reading (but this information has not been released for security reasons):

1. Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) by Stephenie Meyer

2. Passport to Peril (Hard Case Crime) by Robert B. Parker

3. 30 Years of Laughs & Lasagna: The Life & Times of a Fat, Furry Legend! (Garfield) by Jim Davis

4. Real Life: Preparing for the 7 Most Challenging Days of Your Life by Dr. Phil McGraw

5. They Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words and Phrases (The Writer's Studio) by Howard Rheingold

Now that's a reading list!

...But don't worry, Mr. President! Your secret's safe with me!

(Guy just reminded me of the additional book that he and the President are both reading. Of course, it's The Fall of Eagles: The Death Of The Great European Dynasties by C.L. Sulzberger. I can't believe I forgot that title, because I overhear them on the phone together all the time, talking about it. History nerds!)

Adorable Illustration by Mark Alan Stamaty