Obama's Favorite Books

From President Obama's Facebook page here are his favorite books. I looked this up because I saw a reference to Gilead being one of his favorite books.

• Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison)
  
• Moby Dick
  
• Shakespeare's Tragedies
  
• Parting the Waters
  
• Gilead (Robinson)
  
• Self-Reliance (Emerson)
  
• The Bible
  
• Lincoln's Collected Writings