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 status: 19 out of 46

President	Book	Date
George Washington	His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph Ellis	Oct 2011
John Adams	John Adams by David McCullough	Jan 2009
Thomas Jefferson	American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph Ellis	Dec 2011
James Madison	James Madison: A Biography by Ralph Ketchum	Aug 2013
James Monroe
John Quincy Adams	John Quincy Adams by Paul Nagel	Jan 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	Oct 2016
Abraham Lincoln	Team of Rivals by Doris K. Goodwin	Dec 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	Dec 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: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex, and Colonel Roosevelt	June 2011
William Taft
Woodrow Wilson	Woodrow Wilson by John Milton Cooper	Aug 2010
Warren Harding
Calvin Coolidge	Coolidge by Amity Shlaes	Feb 2014
Herbert Hoover	Herbert Hoover in the White House by Charles Rappleye	Dec 2015
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman	Truman by David McCullough	Sep 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