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The American Presidents Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of The American Presidents books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the The American Presidents series? Start with "Theodore Roosevelt (By: Louis Auchincloss)" (2002) and follow publication order through all 42 books.
The complete The American Presidents reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Theodore Roosevelt (By: Louis Auchincloss)
2002
James Madison (By: Garry Wills)
2002
Bill Clinton (By: Hal Marcovitz)
2002
Grover Cleveland (By: Henry F. Graff)
2002
John Quincy Adams (By: Robert V. Remini)
2002
Rutherford B. Hayes (By: Hans L. Trefousse)
2002
Dwight D. Eisenhower (By: Tom Wicker)
2002
Thomas Jefferson (By: Joyce Appleby)
2003
James K. Polk (By: John Seigenthaler)
2003
William McKinley (By: Kevin Phillips)
2003
Abraham Lincoln (By: George S. McGovern)
2003
Woodrow Wilson
2003
John Adams (By: John Patrick Diggins)
2003
George H. W. Bush (By: Timothy Naftali)
2003
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (By: RoyJenkins)
2003
Warren G. Harding (By: John W. Dean)
2004
James Buchanan (By: Jean H. Baker)
2004
George Washington (By: James MacGregor Burns,Susan Dunn)
2004
Chester Alan Arthur (By: Zachary Karabell)
2004
Ulysses S. Grant (By: Josiah Bunting)
2004
Martin Van Buren (By: Ted Widmer)
2005
Benjamin Harrison (By: Charles W. Calhoun)
2005
James Monroe (By: GaryHart)
2005
Andrew Jackson (By: Sean Wilentz)
2005
James A. Garfield (By: Ira Rutkow)
2006
Calvin Coolidge (By: David Greenberg)
2006
Gerald R. Ford (By: Douglas Brinkley)
2007
Richard M. Nixon (By: Elizabeth Drew)
2007
Herbert Hoover (By: William E. Leuchtenburg)
2008
Zachary Taylor (By: John S.D. Eisenhower)
2008
Harry S. Truman (By: Robert Dallek)
2008
John Tyler (By: Gary May)
2008
Andrew Johnson (By: Annette Gordon-Reed)
2008
Millard Fillmore (By: Paul Finkelman)
2009
Franklin Pierce (By: Michael F. Holt)
2010
Lyndon B. Johnson (By: Charles Peters)
2010
John F. Kennedy (By: Alan Brinkley)
2010
Jimmy Carter (By: Julian E. Zelizer)
2010
William Henry Harrison (By: Gail Collins)
2012
William Howard Taft (By: Jeffrey Rosen)
2012
George W. Bush (By: James Mann)
2015
Ronald Reagan (By: Jacob Weisberg)
2016
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