David Nakamura at the Washington Post reports the six books President Obama is taking on his 16-day summer vacation:

• Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

• The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

• The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

• All That Is by James Salter

That's a pretty impressive summer reading list. The Lahiri novel is an underrated work, the Doerr is unanimously beloved, and the Coates is beautiful and challenging and heartbreaking.