Some time ago I made the decision to read a biography of every American President. Here is my progress to date.  

1. John Adams, 1797-1801
   • John Adams by David McCullough.
2. Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809
3. James Madison, 1809-1817
   • James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights by Richard Labunski
4. James Monroe, 1817-1825
5. John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829
6. Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837
7. Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841
8. William Henry Harrison, 1841
9. John Tyler, 1841-1845
10. James Knox Polk, 1845-1849
11. Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850
12. Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853
13. Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857
14. James Buchanan, 1857-1861
15. Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865
    • Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
16. Andrew Johnson, 1865-1869
17. Ulysses S. Grant, 1869-1877
    • Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, 1839-1865
18. Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-1881
19. James Abram Garfield, 1881
20. Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-1885
21. Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889
    • Grover Cleveland by Henry Graff
22. Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893
23. Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897
24. William McKinley, 1897-1901
25. Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909
    • The Roosevelts: An American Saga by Peter Collier
    • The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
26. William Howard Taft, 1909-1913
    • The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin
27. Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921
    • Woodrow Wilson by John Milton Cooper
28. Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-1923
29. Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929
30. Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-1933
31. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945
    • The Defining Moment by Jonathan Alter
    • Nothing To Fear by Adam Cohen
32. Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953
    • Truman by David McCullough.
33. Dwight David Eisenhower, 1953-1961
34. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963
35. Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969
    • The Passage of Power by Robert Caro
36. Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974
37. Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977
38. James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981
39. Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-1989
    • When Character Was King by Peggy Noonan.
40. George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993
41. William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001
42. George Walker Bush, 2001-2009
43. Barack Hussein Obama, 2009-