Obama has an excellent — but ambitious — summer reading list

President Obama has spent much of his two-week vacation in Martha's Vineyard golfing (described by Bleacher Report as "relentless" golfing, actually). But it sounds like he's got some downtime, too, at least judging by the reading list obtained by ABC News. These aren't your usual beach reads, either:

• All That Is by James Salter
• All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
• The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

The list includes three Pulitzer Prize winners as well as a Man Booker short-lister, with a combination of nonfiction, memoir, and fiction.

However, Obama might need to cut back on his golfing if he's really going to get through them all. To finish all six on vacation, Politico notes, he'd need to get through one every two and a half days.

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