This bibliography of Barack Obama is a list of written and published works, both books and films, about Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States.

Scholarly books and articles

• Alter, Jonathan B. (2010). The Promise: President Obama, Year One. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4391-0119-3.
• Andersen, Christopher P. (2009). Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage. New York: William Morrow. ISBN 978-0-06-177196-5.
• Anonymous (2011). O: A Presidential Novel. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-2596-7.
• Baker, Peter (2017). Obama: The Call of History. New York Times/Callaway. ISBN 978-0935112900.
• Bolton, John R.; Geller, Pamela A.; Spencer, Robert C. (2010). The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America. Threshold Editions. ISBN 978-1-4391-8930-6.
• Chait, Jonathan (2017). Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail. Custom House. ISBN 978-0062426970.
• Chollet, Derek (2016). The Long Game: How Obama Defied Washington and Redefined America's Role in the World. New York: Public Affairs. ISBN 978-1610396608.

• Congressional Quarterly. Congress and the Nation: Volume 13: 2009-2012 (CQ Press, 2013) online, 1075 pp of highly detailed coverage of all major themes
  • Congressional Quarterly. Congress and the Nation: Volume 14: 2012-2016 (CQ Press, 2017)
• Conley, Richard S., and Kevin Baron. "Obama’s ‘Hidden-Hand’ Presidency: Myth, Metaphor, or Misrepresentation?." White House Studies 13 (2015): 129-57.
• Corsi, Jerome R. (2008). The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality. New York: Threshold Editions/Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-9806-0.
• Crotty, William, ed. (2012). The Obama Presidency: Promise and Performance. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0739172346.

• D'Antonio, Michael (2017). A Consequential President: The Legacy of Barack Obama. Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN 978-1250081391.^[1]

• Freddoso, David (2008). The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate. Washington, D.C: Regnery Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59698-566-7.
• Freddoso, David (2011). Gangster Government: Barack Obama and the New Washington Thugocracy. Regnery Publishing. ISBN 9781596986480.
• Freddoso, David (2013). Spin Masters: How the Media Ignored the Real News and Helped Reelect Barack Obama. Regnery Publishing. ISBN 9781621571506.
• Gaman-Golutvina, Oxana. "Political elites in the USA under George W. Bush and Barack Obama: Structure and international politics." Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung 43.4 (2018): 141-163. online
• Garrow, David, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama (May 2017)
• Grunwald, Michael (2012). The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-4232-2.
• Halperin, Mark S.; Heilemann, John (2010). Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime. New York: Harper. ISBN 978-0-06-196620-0.
• Halperin, Mark S.; Heilemann, John (2012). Double Down: Game Change 2012. New York: Harper. ISBN 978-1594204401.
• Hannity, Sean (2010). Conservative Victory: Defeating Obama's Radical Agenda. Harper Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0-06-200305-8.
• Ingraham, Laura (2010). The Obama Diaries. Threshold Editions. ISBN 978-1-4391-9751-6.
• Jacobs, Sally H. (2011). The Other Barack: The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father. New York: PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1-58648-793-5.
• Lee, T. S. (2009). The Obama Story: The Boy With the Biggest Dream! (Great Heroes) (in Korean). Dasan Productions. ISBN 978-0-9819542-0-2.
• Limbaugh, David (2010). Crimes Against Liberty: An Indictment of President Barack Obama. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc. ISBN 978-1-59698-624-4.
• Limbaugh, David (2012). The Great Destroyer. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc. ISBN 978-1-59698-777-7.

• McElya, Micki (2011). "To "Choose Our Better History": Assessing the Obama Presidency in Real Time". American Quarterly. 63: 179–189. doi:10.1353/aq.2011.0012. S2CID 145168784.

• Maass, Matthias. The World Views of the Obama Era (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
• McGann, Eileen; Morris, Dick (2009). Catastrophe: How Obama, Congress, and the Special Interests Are Transforming a Slump Into a Crash, Freedom Into Socialism, and a Disaster Into a Catastrophe... and How to Fight Back. New York: Harper. ISBN 978-0-06-177104-0.

• Malkin, Michelle (2009). Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies. Washington, D.C: Regnery Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59698-109-6.
• Mattera, Jason (2010). Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation. Threshold Editions. ISBN 978-1-4391-7207-0.
• Maraniss, David (2012). Barack Obama: The Story. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4391-6040-4.

• Mendell, David (2007). Obama: From Promise to Power. New York: Amistad/HarperCollinsPublishers. ISBN 978-0-06-085820-9.

• Obama, Barack; et al. (2008). Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise. New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-307-46045-5.^[2]
• Pomante (Ii), Michael J.; Schraufnagel, Scot (2018). Historical Dictionary of the Barack Obama Administration. ISBN 978-1538111512.

• Presta, John (2010). Mr. and Mrs. Grassroots: How Barack Obama, Two Bookstore Owners, and 300 Volunteers Did It. Paoli, Pennsylvania: The Elevator Group. ISBN 978-0-375-70230-3.

• Remnick, David (2011). The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama. London: Vintage. ISBN 978-0-981-97192-6.
• Rudalevige, Andrew (2012). "'A Majority Is the Best Repartee': Barack Obama and Congress, 2009-2012". Social Science Quarterly. 93 (5): 1272–1294. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6237.2012.00910.x.
• Rudalevige, Andrew (2016). "The Contemporary Presidency: The Obama Administrative Presidency: Some Late-Term Patterns". Presidential Studies Quarterly. 46 (4): 868–890. doi:10.1111/psq.12323.

• Savage, Charlie (2015). Power Wars: Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency. New York: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 9780316286572. OCLC 907941518. Ebook edition: Power Wars: The Relentless Rise of Presidential Authority and Secrecy.
• Scott, Janny (2011). A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother. Riverhead Hardcover. ISBN 978-1-59448-797-2.
• Skocpol, Theda; Jacobs, Lawrence R. (2012). "Accomplished and Embattled: Understanding Obama's Presidency". Political Science Quarterly. 127: 1–24. doi:10.1002/j.1538-165X.2012.tb00718.x.

• von Marschall, Christoph (2007). Barack Obama - Der schwarze Kennedy [Barack Obama – The black Kennedy] (in German). Orell Fuessli Verlag. ISBN 978-3-280-06108-4.

• White, John Kenneth (2009). Barack Obama's America: How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-11450-4.
• Wise, Tim (2009). Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama. San Francisco: City Lights Books. ISBN 978-0-87286-500-6.
• Wolffe, Richard (2009). Renegade: The Making of a President. New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-307-46313-5.^[3]
• Wolffe, Richard (2010). Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House. Crown Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-71741-2.
• Wolffe, Richard (2013). The Message: The Reselling of President Obama. Twelve. ISBN 978-1455581566.
• Woodward, Bob (2010). Obama's Wars. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4391-7249-0.
• Zelizer, Julian E. (2018). The Presidency of Barack Obama: A First Historical Assessment. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691160283.

Autobiographies

• Obama, Barack (2004). Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. New York: Broadway. ISBN 1400082773.^[4]
• Obama, Barack (2008). The Audacity of Hope. New York: Vintage. ISBN 978-0307455871.^[4]
• Obama, Barack (November 17, 2020). A Promised Land. New York: Crown. ISBN 978-1-5247-6316-9.

Rhetoric

• Baysha, Olga. "Synecdoche that kills: How Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin constructed different Ukraines for different ends." International Communication Gazette 80.3 (2018): 230-249.
• Belisle, Jordan, et al. "Feasibility of contextual behavioral speech analyses of US presidents: Inaugural addresses of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, 1993–2017." Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science 10 (2018): 14-18.
• Bostdorff, Denise M. "Obama, Trump, and reflections on the rhetoric of political change." Rhetoric & Public Affairs 20.4 (2017): 695-706. online
• Gleason, Timothy R., and Sara S. Hansen. "Image control: The visual rhetoric of President Obama." Howard Journal of Communications 28.1 (2017): 55-71.
• Hill, Theon E. "Sanitizing the struggle: Barack Obama, Selma, and civil rights memory." Communication Quarterly 65.3 (2017): 354-376.

• Holliday, N. "'My Presiden(t) and Firs(t) Lady Were Black': Style, Context, and Coronal Stop Deletion in the Speech of Barack and Michelle Obama." American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage (2017) 92(4), 459-486, “My Presiden(t) and Firs(t) Lady Were Black”:
• Holliday, Nicole, Jason Bishop, and Grace Kuo. "Prosody and political style: The case of Barack Obama and the L+ H* Pitch accent." Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020. online

• Iversen, Stefan, and Henrik Skov Nielsen. "Invention as intervention in the rhetoric of Barack Obama." Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies 9.1-2 (2017): 121-142.
• Kurtz, Jeffrey B. "'To Have Your Experience Denied... it Hurts': Barack Obama, James Baldwin, and the Politics of Black Anger." Howard Journal of Communications 28.1 (2017): 93-106.

• Perry, Samuel. "Barack Obama, civil mourning, and prudence in presidential rhetoric." Howard Journal of Communications 28.2 (2017): 160-173
• St. Onge, Jeffrey. "Neoliberalism as common sense in Barack Obama’s health care rhetoric." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 47.4 (2017): 295-312.
• Widiatmika, Putu Wahyu, I. Made Budiarsa, and I. Gde Sadia. "Rhetorical Schemes in Barack Obama’s Winning Speech." Humanis 24.4: 394-401. online

Editions of his speeches

• Dionne, E. J. Jr., and Joy-Ann Reid, eds. We are the change we seek: The speeches of Barack Obama (Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2017).
• Easton, Jaclyn, ed. (2008). Inspire a Nation: Barack Obama's Most Electrifying Speeches of the 2008 Election. Publishing 180. ISBN 978-0982100509.
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Obama, Barack; Lincoln, Abraham (2009). The Inaugural Address, 2009: Together with Abraham Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural Addresses and the Gettysburg Address and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-311642-4.
• Olive, David I. (2008). An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama: A Primer. Toronto: ECW Press. ISBN 978-1-55022-864-9.
• Rogak, Lisa (2009). Barack Obama in His Own Words. Running Press Miniature Editions. ISBN 978-0-7624-3789-4.
• Ruth, Greg (2009). Our Enduring Spirit: President Barack Obama's First Words to America. London: Collins. ISBN 978-0-06-183455-4.
• Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean (2009). The Speech: Race and Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union". Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 978-1-59691-667-8.

Films

• Obama Anak Menteng
• 2016: Obama's America
• I Want Your Money
• Obama Mama
• Phas Gaye Re Obama
• Southside With You
• Barry