I have a plan to read a book on each president. I found this list on reddit and it seemed like a good list. Going to make my way through it…probably not in this order.

  • George Washington, 1789-1797 - Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

  • John Adams, 1797-1801 - John Adams by David McCullough

  • Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809 - Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by John Meachem

  • James Madison, 1809-1817 - James Madison: A Life Reconsidered by Lynne Cheney

  • James Monroe, 1817-1825 - The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness by Harlow Giles Unger

  • John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829 - John Quincy Adams: American Visionary by Fred Kaplan

  • Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837 - The Life of Andrew Jackson by Robert Remini

  • Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841 - Martin Van Buren and the American Political System by Donald Cole

  • William Henry Harrison, 1841 - Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer by Robert Owens

  • John Tyler, 1841-1845 - The American Presidents Series: John Tyler by Gary May

  • James Knox Polk, 1845-1849 - James K. Polk: A Country of Vast Designs by Robert Merry

  • Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850 - American Presidents Series: Zachary Taylor by Eisenhower

  • Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853 - Millard Fillmore: Biography of a President by Robert Rayback

  • Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857 - The American Presidents Series: Franklin Pierce by Michael Holt

  • James Buchanan, 1857-1861 - The American Presidents Series: James Buchanan by Jean Baker

  • Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 - Lincoln by David Herbert Donald

  • Andrew Johnson, 1865-1869 - Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson by David O. Steward

  • Ulysses S. Grant, 1869-1877 - Grant by John Edward Smith

  • Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-1881 - The American Presidents Series: Rutherford B Hayes by Hans Trefousse

  • James Abram Garfield, 1881 - Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard

  • Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-1885 - Gentleman Boss by Thomas Reeves

  • Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889 - An Honest President by HP Jeffers

  • Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893 - The Presidency of Benjamin Harrison by Socolofsky

  • Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897 - Already noted above

  • William McKinley, 1897-1901 - The President and the Assassin by Miller

  • Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909 - The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex & Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

  • William Howard Taft, 1909-1913 - The Bully Pulpit by Goodwin

  • Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921 - Wilson by Berg

  • Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-1923 - American Presidents Series: Warren Harding by Dean

  • Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929 - Coolidge by Shales

  • Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-1933 - Herbert Hoover in the White House by Rappeleye

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945 - FDR by Smith

  • Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953 - Truman by McCullough

  • Dwight David Eisenhower, 1953-1961 - Soldier and President by Ambrose

  • John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963 - An Unfinished Life by Dallek

  • Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969 - Indomitable Will by Updegrove

  • Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974 - Being Nixon by Thomas

  • Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977 - APS by Brinkley

  • James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981 - Redeemer by Ballmer

  • Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-1989 - Reagan: The Life by Brand

  • George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993 - Destiny and Power by Meacham

  • William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001 - The Survivor by Harris

  • George Walker Bush, 2001-2009 - Bush by Smith

  • Barack Hussein Obama, 2009-2017 - The Bridge by Remnick

  • Donald Trump, 2017- - Trump Revealed by Kranish & Fisher

here is where I found the list: https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/86985a/reading_a_biography_on_each_us_president/