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Former US president Barack Obama has continued his tradition of publishing end-of-year lists, compiling the books, songs and films that the former US president has most enjoyed over the passed 12 months, with Zadie Smith, Beyonc and Jay Zs Apeshit and Armando Iannuccis political satire The Death of Stalin all included.

As 2018 draws to a close, Im continuing a favourite tradition of mine and sharing my year-end lists, Obama wrote on Facebook, adding that the list included work that he found thought-provoking, inspiring, or just plain loved. The lists which started in 2015, while he was still in office are meant to highlight work from famous and lesser-known writers, directors and musicians.

In 2018, Obama read biographies including David W Blights study of Frederick Douglass, the anti-slavery advocate and intellectual (Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom) and tennis star Arthur Ashe: A Life by Raymond Arsenault. Max Tegmarks cautionary examination of what human life might look like in a future with superintelligent AI, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, was also included, as was fiction in the form of Florida by Lauren Groff.

His film list was no less tasteful, with Palme dOr winner Hirokaz

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