I have a goal to read a substantive biography of every United States president. (Here’s why.) This is where I’m tracking what I’ve read and when, with links to my reviews as applicable.

Current POTUS status: 19 out of 45

George Washington — His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph Ellis (October 2011)

John Adams — John Adams by David McCullough (January 2009)

Thomas Jefferson — American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph Ellis (December 2011)

James Madison — James Madison: A Biography by Ralph Ketchum (August 2013)

James Monroe

John Quincy Adams — John Quincy Adams by Paul Nagel (January 2013)

Andrew Jackson — Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times by H.W. Brands (May 2013)

Martin Van Buren

William Henry Harrison

John Tyler — John Tyler by Gary May (June 2018)

James Polk — A Country of Vast Designs by Robert Merry (March 2015)

Zachary Taylor

Millard Fillmore

Franklin Pierce

James Buchanan — Worst. President. Ever. by Robert Strauss (October 2016)

Abraham Lincoln — Team of Rivals by Doris K. Goodwin (December 2008)

Andrew Johnson

Ulysses Grant

Rutherford Hayes — Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and President by Ari Hoogenboom (June 2013)

James Garfield

Chester Arthur — Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur by Thomas Reeves (December 2016)

Grover Cleveland

Benjamin Harrison

William McKinley — President McKinley: The Art of Stealthy Leadership by Robert Merry (April 2017)

Theodore Roosevelt — The Edmund Morris trilogy of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex, and Colonel Roosevelt (June 2011)

William Taft

Woodrow Wilson — Woodrow Wilson by John Milton Cooper (August 2010)

Warren Harding

Calvin Coolidge — Coolidge by Amity Shlaes (February 2014)

Herbert Hoover — Herbert Hoover in the White House by Charles Rappleye (December 2015)

Franklin Roosevelt

Harry Truman — Truman by David McCullough (September 2018)

Dwight Eisenhower

John Kennedy

Lyndon Johnson

Richard Nixon

Gerald Ford

Jimmy Carter

Ronald Reagan

George Bush — Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Bush by Jon Meacham (March 2016)

Bill Clinton

George W. Bush

Barack Obama

Donald Trump

Joe Biden