By Presidential Order
From George Washington to Barack Obama and Everyone in Between

1. George Washington:  1789-1797
Washington:  A Life
Ron Chernow        B WASHINGTON

2. John Adams:  1797-1801
John Adams
David G. McCullough        B ADAMS

3. Thomas Jefferson:  1801-1809
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
Joseph J. Ellis         973.46 ELL

4. James Madison:  1809-1817
James Madison
Garry Wills        B MADISON

5. James Monroe:  1817-1825
The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and A Nation’s Call to Greatness
Harlow G. Unger        973.54 UNG

6. John Quincy Adams:  1825-1829
Mr. Adams’s Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams’s Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress
Joseph Wheelan        973.55 WHE

7. Andrew Jackson:  1829-1837
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Jon Meacham        B JACKSON

8. Martin Van Buren:  1837-1841
Martin Van Buren
Edward L. Widmer        B VAN BUREN

9. William Henry Harrison:  1841
William Henry Harrison
Gail Collins          B HARRISON

10. John Tyler:  1841-1845
John Tyler: The Accidental President    
Edward P. Crapol              B TYLER

11. James Knox Polk:  1845-1849
Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America
Walter R. Borneman        973.61 BOR

12. Zachary Taylor:  1849-1850
Zachary Taylor
John S. D. Eisenhower        B TAYLOR

13. Millard Fillmore:  1850-1853
The Remarkable Millard Fillmore: The Unbelievable Life of a Forgotten President
George Pendle        B FILLMORE

14. Franklin Pierce:  1853-1857
Franklin Pierce
Michael F. Holt        B PIERCE

15. James Buchanan:  1857-1861
James Buchanan
Jean H. Baker        B BUCHANAN

16. Abraham Lincoln:  1861-1865
The Abraham Lincoln Companion
Helene Henderson, ed. 973.7 ABR

17. Andrew Johnson:  1865-1869
The Avenger Takes His Place: Andrew Johnson and the 45 Days that Changed the Nation
Howard B. Means        973.81 MEA

18. Ulysses S. Grant:  1869-1877
Grant
Jean Edward Smith        B GRANT

19. Rutherford Birchard Hayes: 1877-1881
Rutherford B. Hayes
Hans L. Trefousse        B HAYES

20. James Abram Garfield: 1881
Destiny of the Republic:  A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President
Candice Millard        973.84 MIL

21. Chester Alan Arthur:  1881-1885
Chester Alan Arthur
Zachary Karabell        B ARTHUR

22/24     Grover Cleveland:  1885-1889; 1893-1897
A Secret Life:  The Sex, Lies, and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland
Charles Lachman        973.85 LAC

23. Benjamin Harrison:  1889-1893
Benjamin Harrison
Charles W. Calhoun        B HARRISON

25. William McKinley:  1897-1901
The President and the Assassin:  McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
Scott Miller        973.88 MIL

26. Theodore Roosevelt:  1901-1909
Theodore Rex
Edmund Morris        973.911 MOR

27. William Howard Taft:  1909-1913
1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs — The Election that Changed the Country
James Chace        324 CHA

28. Woodrow Wilson:  1913-1921
Woodrow Wilson:  A Biography
John Milton Cooper        B WILSON

29. Warren Gamaliel Harding:  1921-1923
Warren G. Harding
John W. Dean        B HARDING

30. Calvin Coolidge: 1923-1929
Coolidge: An American Enigma
Robert Sobel        B COOLIDGE

31. Herbert Clark Hoover: 1929-1933
Herbert Hoover
William E. Leuchtenburg        B HOOVER

32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt: 1933-1945
No Ordinary Time:  Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Doris Kearns Goodwin        973.917 GOO

33. Harry S. Truman:  1945-1953
Truman
David G. McCullough        B TRUMAN

34. Dwight David Eisenhower:  1953-1961
Ike:  An American Hero
Michael Korda        B EISENHOWER

35. John Fitzgerald Kennedy:  1961-1963
John F. Kennedy
Robert Dallek        973.922 DAL

36. Lyndon Baines Johnson:  1963-1969
The Path to Power:  The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert A. Caro        B JOHNSON

37. Richard Milhous Nixon:  1969-1974
Reinventing Richard Nixon:  A Cultural History of an American Obsession
Daniel E. Frick        973.924 FRI

38. Gerald Rudolph Ford:  1974-1977
Write It When I’m Gone:  Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford
Thomas M. DeFrank        973.925092 DEF

39. James Earl Carter, Jr. :  1977-1981
Jimmy Carter
Julian E. Zelizer        B CARTER

40. Ronald Wilson Reagan:  1981-1989
The Reagan Diaries
Ronald Reagan        973.927092 REA

41. George Herbert Walker Bush:  1989-1993
George H. W. Bush
Timothy J. Naftali        B BUSH

42. William Jefferson Clinton:  1993-2001
A Complicated Man:  The Life of Bill Clinton as Told By Those Who Know Him
Michael Takiff        973.929 TAK

43. George Walker Bush:  2001-2009
Decision Points
George W. Bush        973.931 BUS

44. Barack Hussein Obama:  2009-
Barack Obama: The Story
David Maraniss        B OBAMA

From Mount Vernon to Crawford: A History of the Presidents and Their Retreats
Kenneth T. Walsh        973 WAL

Don’t Know Much About the American Presidents: Everything You Need to Know About the Most Powerful Office on Earth and the Men Who Have Occupied It
Kenneth C. Davis        973.099 DAV (New)

The Handy Presidents Answer Book
David L. Hudson                        973.099 HUD

America’s First Dynasty:  The Adamses, 1735-1918
Richard Brokhiser        973.44 BRO

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