Canadian author Madeleine Thien is on former U.S. president Barack Obama's 2025 summer reading list for her novel The Book of Records .

Toward the end of each summer, Obama releases a list of his favourite recent reads. These include fiction and nonfiction books by both international and U.S. authors.

Thien is the only Canadian writer to make this year's 10-book list.

The Book of Records is set 100 years in the future and follows Lina, a young girl from China, and her ailing father as they seek refuge in a place called "the Sea," where time has collapsed. In this world, voyagers and philosophers from centuries past coexist with migrants from around the globe.

Lina grows up with only three books, each chronicling the lives of famous voyagers throughout history. Over time, these

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