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John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as president)
avg rating 4.08 — 377,892 ratings — published 2001
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as president)
avg rating 4.17 — 82,809 ratings — published 2010
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as president)
avg rating 4.05 — 43,197 ratings — published 2012
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as president)
avg rating 4.24 — 85,046 ratings — published 2011
Truman (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as president)
avg rating 4.17 — 91,499 ratings — published 1992
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as president)
avg rating 3.86 — 56,953 ratings — published 2008
Decision Points (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as president)
avg rating 3.81 — 42,570 ratings — published 2010
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as president)
avg rating 4.21 — 77,507 ratings — published 2005
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as president)
avg rating 4.15 — 24,046 ratings — published 2013
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as president)
avg rating 4.22 — 60,889 ratings — published 1979
My Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as president)
avg rating 3.74 — 50,053 ratings — published 2004
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as president)
avg rating 4.28 — 200,195 ratings — published 2005
Mornings on Horseback (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as president)
avg rating 4.10 — 35,373 ratings — published 1981
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as president)
avg rating 4.31 — 275,955 ratings — published 2020
Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as president)
avg rating 4.50 — 44,013 ratings — published 2017
The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as president)
avg rating 3.94 — 10,922 ratings — published 2009
His Excellency: George Washington (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as president)
avg rating 3.96 — 43,313 ratings — published 2004
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as president)
avg rating 3.94 — 231,134 ratings — published 1995
James Madison: A Life Reconsidered (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as president)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,438 ratings — published 2014
Wilson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as president)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,904 ratings — published 2013
FDR (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as president)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,353 ratings — published 2007
Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as president)
avg rating 4.28 — 27,618 ratings — published 1990
Theodore Rex (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as president)
avg rating 4.19 — 51,192 ratings — published 2001
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as president)
avg rating 3.94 — 29,022 ratings — published 1997
John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as president)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,694 ratings — published 2016
Coolidge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as president)
avg rating 3.81 — 7,466 ratings — published 2013
A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, The Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as president)
avg rating 3.84 — 7,674 ratings — published 2008
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as president)
avg rating 4.43 — 26,634 ratings — published 1982
Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as president)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,592 ratings — published 2005
Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as president)
avg rating 3.84 — 9,744 ratings — published 2008
American Queen (New Camelot Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as president)
avg rating 3.82 — 65,154 ratings — published 2016
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as president)
avg rating 3.84 — 169,776 ratings — published 2006
So You Want to Be President? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as president)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,594 ratings — published 2000
Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as president)
avg rating 4.43 — 24,142 ratings — published 2002
The President Is Missing (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as president)
avg rating 3.86 — 127,360 ratings — published 2018
Millard Fillmore: Biography of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as president)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,671 ratings — published 1959
Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as president)
avg rating 4.13 — 8,740 ratings — published 2015
"The President Has Been Shot!": The Assassination of John F. Kennedy (Audio CD)
by (shelved 8 times as president)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,867 ratings — published 2013
William Henry Harrison (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as president)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,929 ratings — published 2012
Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as president)
avg rating 4.11 — 62,084 ratings — published 2012
The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)
by (shelved 8 times as president)
avg rating 4.41 — 19,774 ratings — published 2012
Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as president)
avg rating 4.19 — 48,678 ratings — published 1995
Grant (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as president)
avg rating 4.03 — 12,999 ratings — published 2001
All the President’s Men (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as president)
avg rating 4.18 — 57,948 ratings — published 1974
Duck for President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as president)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,074 ratings — published 2004
A. Lincoln (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as president)
avg rating 4.30 — 20,336 ratings — published 2009
Eisenhower in War and Peace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as president)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,278 ratings — published 2012
The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as president)
avg rating 4.16 — 10,717 ratings — published 2012
Woodrow Wilson: A Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as president)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,478 ratings — published 2009
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as president)
avg rating 4.21 — 46,815 ratings — published 1994
“In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.”
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“I'm never going to complain about receiving free early copies of books, because clearly there's nothing to complain about, but it does introduce a rogue element into one's otherwise carefully plotted reading schedule. ...
Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarly deflected from your chosen path. ”
― The Polysyllabic Spree
Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarly deflected from your chosen path. ”
― The Polysyllabic Spree
