Watch, read, and listen like Barack Obama with his best-of-2018 lists

As 2018 draws to a close, it’s time for all those end-of-year lists again. Barack Obama, America’s most-admired man for the 11th consecutive year, posted his on Instagram today (Dec. 28).

“It gives me a moment to pause and reflect on the year through the books, movies, and music that I found most thought-provoking, inspiring, or just plain loved,” Obama wrote. “It also gives me a chance to highlight talented authors, artists, and storytellers–some who are household names and others who you may not have heard of before.”

Here are Obama’s complete lists of his favorites:

Obama’s favorite songs of 2018

You can listen to Obama’s most-loved tunes on this Spotify playlist from Quartz.

• “Apes**it” by The Carters
• “Bad Bad News” by Leon Bridges
• “Could’ve Been” by H.E.R. (feat. Bryson Tiller)
• “Disco Yes” by Tom Misch (feat. Poppy Ajudhja)
• “Ekombe” by Jupiter & Okwess
• “Every Time I Hear That Song” by Brandi Carlile
• “Girl Goin’ Nowhere” by Ashley McBryde
• “Historia De Un Amor” by Tonina (Feat. Javier Limón and Tali Ribenstein)
• “I Like It” by Cardi B (feat. Bad Bunny and J Balvin)
• “Kevin’s Heart” by J. Cole
• “King For A Day” by Anderson East
• “Love Lies” by Khalid & Normani
• “Make Me Feel” by Janelle Monáe
• “Mary Don’t You Weep” (Piano & A Microphone 1983 Version) by Prince
• “My Own Thing” by Chance the Rapper (feat. Joey Purp)
• “Need a Little Time” by Courtney Barnett
• “Nina Cried Power” by Hozier (feat. Mavis Staples)
• “Nterini” by Fatoumata Diawara
• “One Trick Ponies” by Kurt Vile
• “Turnin’ Me Up” by BJ the Chicago Kid
• “Wait by the River” by Lord Huron
• “Wow Freestyle” by Jay Rock (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
• The Great American Songbook by Nancy Wilson (full album)

Obama’s favorite movies of 2018

Here are the trailers for Obama’s top pick of films from the year.

• Annihilation

• Black Panther
• BlacKkKlansman
• Blindspotting
• Burning

• The Death of Stalin
• Eighth Grade
• If Beale Street Could Talk

• Leave No Trace
• Minding the Gap
• The Rider
• Roma

• Shoplifters
• Support the Girls
• Won’t You Be My Neighbor

Obama’s favorite books of 2018

These books, praised by the former US president, have appeared in his previous lists:

• Becoming, by Michelle Obama
• An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones
• Americanah, by Chimamamnda Ngozi Adichie
• The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die, by Keith Payne
• Educated, by Tara Westover
• Factfulness, by Hans Rosling
• Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging, by Alex Wagner
• A Grain of Wheat, by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
• A House for Mr Biswas, by V.S. Naipaul
• How Democracies Die, by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
• In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History, by Mitch Landrieu
• Long Walk to Freedom, by Nelson Mandela
• The New Geography of Jobs, by Enrico Moretti
• The Return, by Hisham Matar
• Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
• Warlight, by Michael Ondaatje
• Why Liberalism Failed, by Patric Deneed
• The World As It Is, by Ben Rhodes

And these are Obama’s previously unmentioned favorite books of 2018:

• American Prison, by Shane Bauer
• Arthur Ashe: A Life, by Raymond Arsenault
• Asymmetry, by Lisa Halliday
• Feel Free, by Zadie Smith
• Florida, by Lauren Groff
• Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, by David W. Blight
• Immigrant, Montana, by Amitava Kumar
• The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, by Denis Johnson
• Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Inteligence, by Max Tegmark
• There There, by Tommy Orange
• Washington Black, by Esi Edugyan