In honor of President’s Day, I thought we would talk presidential books. Presidents and books are a favorite topic of ours, especially my teenage daughter.
Several years ago my daughter, who loves history, set a goal to read a book about every president. She knew this was an ambitious goal, but decided to give it a try.
This is not a goal that can be accomplished overnight or even over a few months. This goal will take years and she knows that.
In the last few years, she has managed to read eleven presidential books about ten different presidents.
We put together a list of all the presidents with the books she has read. Be sure to bookmark or pin this page because we will update this list as she continues to finish books.
1. George Washington– George Washington’s Secret Six
2. John Adams- John Adams
3. Thomas Jefferson- Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates and Thomas Jefferson and The Art of Power
4. James Madison
5. James Monroe
6. John Quincy Adams
7. Andrew Jackson- American Lion Andrew Jackson in the White House
8. Martin Van Buren
9. William Henry Harrison-William Henry Harrison
10. John Tyler
11. James K. Polk
12. Zachary Taylor
13. Millard Fillmore
14. Franklin Pierce
15. James Buchanan
16. Abraham Lincoln–Killing Lincoln
17. Andrew Johnson
18. Ulysses S. Grant- The Man Who Saved the Union
19. Rutherford B. Hayes
20. James Garfield
21. Chester A. Arthur
22. Grover Cleveland
23. Benjamin Harrison
24. Grover Cleveland
25. William McKinley
26. Theodore Roosevelt
27. William Howard Taft
28. Woodrow Wilson
29. Warren G. Harding
30. Calvin Coolidge- Coolidge
31. Herbert Hoover
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt
33. Harry S. Truman
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower- Eisenhower In War and Peace
35. John F. Kennedy
36. Lyndon B. Johnson
37. Richard M. Nixon
38. Gerald R. Ford
39. James Carter
40. Ronald Reagan- Riding with Reagan
41. George H. W. Bush- 41: A Portrait of My Father
42. William J. Clinton
43. George W. Bush- Decision Points
44. Barack Obama