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    The Favorite Books of All 44 Presidents of the United States

    Here’s every U.S. president and their preferred read.

    1. George Washington

    2. John Adams

    3. Thomas Jefferson

    4. James Madison

    5. James Monroe

    6. John Quincy Adams

    7. Andrew Jackson

    8. Martin Van Buren

    9. William H. Harrison

    10. John Tyler

    11. James K. Polk

    12. Zachary Taylor

    13. Millard Fillmore

    14. Franklin Pierce

    15. James Buchanan

    16. Abraham Lincoln

    17. Andrew Johnson

    18. Ulysses S. Grant

    19. Rutherford B. Hayes

    20. James A. Garfield

    21. Chester A. Arthur

    22. Grover Cleveland

    23. Benjamin Harrison

    24. Grover Cleveland (Again)

    25. William McKinley

    26. Theodore Roosevelt

    27. William H. Taft

    28. Woodrow Wilson

    29. Warren G. Harding

    30. Calvin Coolidge

    31. Herbert Hoover

    32. Franklin D. Roosevelt

    33. Harry S. Truman

    34. Dwight D. Eisenhower

    35. John F. Kennedy

    36. Lyndon B. Johnson

    37. Richard M. Nixon

    38. Gerald R. Ford

    39. Jimmy Carter

    40. Ronald Reagan

    41. George H. W. Bush

    42. Bill Clinton

    43. George W. Bush

    44. Barack Obama

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