Barack Obama’s reading Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland this summer!

It predicts an upcoming devastating extinction like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. They span from novels to nonfiction books about climate change and race relations in the United States.

“From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the handsome, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II”.

The president’s summer reading list, as released by a White House official Thursday, includes a heavy dose of fiction, although a biography of America’s first president and a deep dive into mass extinctions are in the mix, too.

Obama might also crack the covers of “Between the World and Me”, a book by Ta-Nehisi Coates, which is described as a bold personal exploration of racial history in America. Kolbert’s book won the Pulitzer Prize for its analysis of how humans are dramatically changing the Earth’s environment.

This 2013 novel follows two brothers growing up in Calcutta in the 1950s and 1960s, tracing each of their lives as one moves to the U.S. and the other stays behind.

The list of books was first revealed to ABC News reporter Ali Weinburg.