I'm going to read about the presidents. The challenge is one without a time limit, and I'm planning on reading one or two books a year. See the tag for all U.S. Presidents books for all related reviews as well.

Any links on Rebecca Reads are the book titles. Any title in bold has been read (may or may not have been reviewed). Non-bold titles are books I'd like to read.

1. George Washington, 1789-1797: Washington: The Indispensable Man by James Thomas Flexner; George Washington and Benedict Arnold: a tale of two patriots by Dave R. Palmer; His Excellency George Washington by Joseph Ellis
2. John Adams, 1797-1801: John Adams by David McCullough
3. Thomas Jefferson, 1801-9 The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
4. James Madison, 1809-17 James Madison: A Biography by Ralph Ketcham; James Madison: A Life Reconsidered by Lynne Cheney; The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President by Noah Feldman
5. James Monroe, 1817-25 The Last Founding Father: James Monroe by Harlow Unger; James Monroe: A Life by Tim McGrath
6. John Quincy Adams, 1825-29 John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit by James Traub; John Quincy Adams by Harlow Unger
7. Andrew Jackson, 1829-37 American Lion by John Meacham; Robert Remini’s The Life of Andrew Jackson
8. Martin Van Buren, 1837-41 Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician by James Bradley; Martin Van Buren by Donald Cole; Martin Van Buren by Ted Witmer
9. William Henry Harrison, 1841 Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer: William Henry Harrison by Robert Owens; William Henry Harrison by Gail Collins
10. John Tyler, 1841-45 President without a Party: The Life of John Tyler by Christopher J. Leahy
11. James Knox Polk, 1845-49 Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America by Walter Borneman
12. Zachary Taylor, 1849-50 Zachary Taylor by John S. D. Eisenhower
13. Millard Fillmore, 1850-53  Millard Fillmore: Biography of a President by Robert Rayback
14. Franklin Pierce, 1853-57 Franklin Pierce by Michael Holt
15. James Buchanan, 1857-61 James Buchanan by Jean Baker
16. Abraham Lincoln, 1861-65 Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman (for children); Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin; Lincoln by David Herbert Donald; Lincoln's Virtues by William Lee Miner; Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography by Philip B. Kunhardt; Abraham Lincoln by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire (for children); Abraham Lincoln: A Man of Faith and Courage by Joe Wheeler; Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame (two volumes); A. Lincoln: A Biography by Ronald White; Lincoln by David Herbert Donald; Abraham Lincoln: A Biography by Benjamin Thomas
17. Andrew Johnson, 1865-69 Andrew Johnson: A Biography by Hans Trefousse; Impeached: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln’s Legacy by David Stewart
18. Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1869-77 Grant by Ron Chernow; Grant by Jean Edward Smith
19. Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-81 Rutherford B. Hayes by Hans Trefousse
20. James Abram Garfield, 1881 Garfield: A Biography by Allan Peskin; Dark Horse: the Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield by Kenneth Ackerman; Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
21. Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-85 Chester Alan Arthur by Zachary Karabell
22. Grover Cleveland, 1885-89 Grover Cleveland: A Study in Character by Alyn Brodsky; A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland by Troy Senik
23. Benjamin Harrison, 1889-93 Benjamin Harrison by Charles Calhoun
24. Grover Cleveland, 1893-97
25. William McKinley, 1897-1901 William McKinley and His America by H. Wayne Morgan
26. Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-9 Power and Responsibility: The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt by William Harbaugh; The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin; The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
27. William Howard Taft, 1909-13 William Howard Taft by Jefrey Rosen
28. Woodrow Wilson, 1913-21 Woodrow Wilson: A Biography (1991) by August Heckscher; Wilson (2013) by A. Scott Berg
29. Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-23 Warren G. Harding: The American Presidents Series by John W. Dean
30. Calvin Coolidge, 1923-29  Calvin Coolidge: The Quiet President by Donald McCoy; Calvin Coolidge: The Man From Vermont by Claude Fuess; Coolidge: An American Enigma by Robert Sobel
31. Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-33 Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times by Kenneth Whyte
32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-45 FDR by Jean Edward Smith; Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of FDR by H. W. Brands; No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt by Doris Kearns Goodwin
33. Harry S. Truman, 1945-53 Truman by David McCullough
34. Dwight David Eisenhower, 1953-61 Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith
35. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-63 An Unfinished Life: JFK 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek; The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys by Doris Kearns Goodwin; President Kennedy: Profile of Power by Richard Reeves; Profiles in Courage by JFK
36. Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-69 read about in Leadership by Doris Kearns Goodwin; Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President by Robert Dallek
37. Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-74 Richard Nixon: The Life by John Farrell
38. Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr , 1974-77 An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford by Richard Norton Smith
39. James Earl Carter, 1977-81 His Very Best by Jonathan Alter
40. Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-89 Reagan: An American Journey by Bob Spitz
41. George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993 Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush by Jon Meacham; George Bush: Life of a Lone Star Yankee by Herbert Parmet
42. William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001
43. George W. Bush, 2001-2009
44. Barack Obama, 2009-2016 The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
45. Not sure I want to read about him 2017-2021
46. Joe Biden 2021-2025 Promise Me, Dad by Joe Biden
47. N/A