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This bibliography of Donald Trump is a list of written and published works, by and about Donald Trump, the former President of the United States. Due to the sheer volume of books about Trump, the titles listed here are limited to non-fiction books about Trump or his presidency, published by notable authors and scholars. Tertiary sources (including textbooks and juvenile literature), satire, and self-published books are excluded.
Prior to his 2016 campaign, Trump was already the focus of many books describing his life as a businessman and politician.[1] Biographer Michael D'Antonio observed in Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success (2015) that Trump "has been a topic of conversation in America for almost 40 years. No one in the world of business – not Bill Gates, Steve Jobs or Warren Buffett – has been as famous as Trump for as long." Almost one year after his inauguration as president, The Guardian noted that more than 4,500 English-language books about Trump had been published since he took office, compared to just over 800 works about Trump's predecessor Barack Obama during his first year in office.[2] This "Trump bump" for the U.S. publishing industry, as The New York Times put it, persisted throughout his time in office.[3] But afterwards, demand for books about his presidency dropped off sharply.[4]
Trump's first published book in 1987 was Trump: The Art of the Deal, written by ghostwriter Tony Schwartz.[1][5][6] Trump made a practice of hiring ghostwriters and co-authors to write his books.[7][8][9] In some cases the ghostwriters are credited on the cover, while in other instances, including Time to Get Tough (2011) and Crippled America (2015), Trump makes mention of the writer's contributions in the acknowledgements sections. Works written by Trump himself include self-help books, personal finance books, political policy treatises, and autobiographies.[1][10] "...Schwartz has noted that, during the year and a half that they worked together on The Art of the Deal, he never saw a single book in Trump's office or apartment. Yet Trump has taken authorial credits on more than a dozen books to date, and, given that he's a proven marketing master, it's inconceivable that he won't try to sell more."[11]
The Washington Post journalist Carlos Lozada observed that a continuous theme throughout Trump's written works is a focus on Trump himself, such as citing examples from his business in real estate investing and work on television. Parties and individuals discussed in books by Trump are reduced to a zero-sum game, according to Lozada: "Trump's world is binary, divided into class acts and total losers." Trump often makes use of hyperbole to illustrate his points in his works. In other books, Trump repeats the same stories of what he views as key successes from his business career; for example, a tale about a 1980s business deal improving the Wollman Rink in Central Park, New York.[10] Trump's published writings shifted post-2000, from generally memoirs about himself to books giving advice about finance.[10]
| Title | Year | Publisher | ISBN / OCLC | Ghostwriter(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trump: The Art of the Deal | 1987 | Random House | 978-0-345-47917-4 | Tony Schwartz[5][6] | It reached number 1 on The New York Times Best Seller list, stayed there for 13 weeks, and altogether held a position on the list for 48 weeks.
Schwartz discussed his alleged ghostwriting, in a 2016 article in The New Yorker.[12] |
| Trump: Surviving at the Top | 1990 | Random House | 978-0-394-57597-1 | Charles Leerhsen[13] | Subsequently, as: The Art of Survival (1991), ISBN 978-0-446-36209-2 |
| Trump: The Art of the Comeback | 1997 | Times Books | 978-0-8129-2964-5 | Kate Bohner[14] | |
| The America We Deserve | 2000 | Renaissance Books | 978-1-580-63131-0 | Dave Shiflett[15] | Published during decision-making process for the Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2000.[16] |
| Trump: How to Get Rich | 2004 | Random House | 978-0-345-48103-0 | Meredith McIver[17][18] | |
| The Way to the Top: The Best Business Advice I Ever Received | 2004 | Crown Business | 978-1-4000-5016-1 | ||
| Think Like a Billionaire: Everything You Need to Know About Success, Real Estate, and Life | 2004 | Random House | 978-0-345-48140-5 | Meredith McIver[18] | |
| The Best Golf Advice I Ever Received | 2005 | Crown | 978-0-307-20999-3 | ||
| Why We Want You to Be Rich | 2006 | Rich Press | 978-1-933914-02-2 | Meredith McIver[18] | Robert Kiyosaki as coauthor. Debuted at number one on The New York Times best seller list[19] |
| How to Build a Fortune: Your Plan for Success From the World's Most Famous Businessman | 2006 | Trump University | OCLC 67616909 | Audiobook | |
| The Best Real Estate Advice I Ever Received: 100 Top Experts Share Their Strategies | 2006 | Thomas Nelson | 978-1-4016-0255-0 | ||
| Trump 101: The Way to Success | 2006 | Wiley | 978-0-470-04710-1 | Meredith McIver[18] | The Washington Post, Politico, and CNN called the work a "Trump University book".[20][21][22] |
| Think Big and Kick Ass | 2007 | HarperCollins | 978-0-06-154783-6 | Bill Zanker[23] | Trump and Zanker had prior business dealings through Zanker's company The Learning Annex.[24][25] |
| Never Give Up: How I Turned My Biggest Challenges into Success | 2008 | Wiley | 978-0-470-19084-5 | Meredith McIver[18] | |
| Think Like a Champion: An Informal Education in Business and Life | 2009 | Vanguard Press | 978-0-7624-3856-3 | Meredith McIver[18] | |
| Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again | 2011 | Regnery | 978-1-59698-773-9 | Wynton Hall[26][27] Peter Schweizer[26][27] Meredith McIver[28] |
On the Issues noted changes in political views compared with prior book The America We Deserve.[29] |
| Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich – And Why Most Don't | 2011 | Plata Publishing | 978-1-61268-095-8 | Second collaboration with co-author Robert Kiyosaki after Why We Want You to Be Rich[30] | |
| Trump Tower | 2011 | Vanguard Press | 978-1-59315-643-5 | Jeffrey Robinson | The book was billed as Trump's "debut novel", and later released with Jeffrey Robinson credited as the sole author.[31][32][33][34] |
| Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again | 2015 | Threshold Editions | 978-1-5011-3796-9 | David Fisher[35][36][37] | |
| Our Journey Together | 2021 | Winning Team Publishing | 978-1-735-50372-1 | ||
| Letters to Trump | 2023 | Winning Team Publishing | 978-1-735-50375-2 | ||
| Save America | 2024 | Winning Team Publishing | 979-8-990-29062-4 | Published on September 3, 2024.[38] |
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN / ASIN | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jerome Tuccille | Trump: The Saga of America's Most Powerful Real Estate Baron | Penguin | 1985 | 978-1-55611-069-6 | |
| John O'Donnell and James Rutherford | Trumped!: The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump – His Cunning Rise and Spectacular Fall | Simon & Schuster | 1991 | 978-0-671-73735-1 | Trump called the author O'Donnell "a fucking loser".[39] |
| John Connolly | How to Fool All of the People, All of the Time | Spy | 1991 | ASIN B01ICCQITE (Kindle) | The e-book was published in July 2016[40][41] |
| Wayne Barrett | Trump: The Deals and the Downfall | HarperCollins | 1992 | 978-0-06-016704-2 | |
| Harry Hurt III | Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump | Norton | 1993 | 978-0-393-03029-7 | |
| Gwenda Blair | The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire | Simon & Schuster | 2000 | 0-684-80849-8 | [42] |
| Robert Slater | No Such Thing as Over-exposure: Inside the Life and Celebrity of Donald Trump | Prentice Hall | 2005 | 978-0-13-149734-4 | |
| Timothy L. O'Brien | TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald | Warner Books | 2005 | 978-0-446-57854-7 | Trump sued the author for libel and the case was dismissed, Trump then appealed, and the dismissal was affirmed.[43][44][45] |
| Gwenda Blair | Donald Trump: The Candidate | Simon & Schuster | 2007 | 978-1-4165-4654-2 | [46] |
| George H. Ross | Trump-Style Negotiation: Powerful Strategies and Tactics for Mastering Every Deal | John Wiley & Sons | 2008 | 978-0-470-22529-5 | |
| David Ewen | Chasing Paradise: Donald Trump and the Battle for the World's Greatest Golf Course | Black & White | 2010 | 978-1-84502-311-9 | |
| Richard Bronson | The War at the Shore: Donald Trump, Steve Wynn, and the Epic Battle to Save Atlantic City | Overlook Press | 2012 | 978-1-4683-0046-8 | |
| Kevin D. Williamson | The Case Against Trump | Encounter Books | 2015 | 978-1-59403-877-8 | |
| Michael D'Antonio | Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success | Thomas Dunne Books | 2015 | 978-1-250-04238-5 | Subsequently, as: The Truth About Trump. St. Martin's Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1-250-10528-8.[47] |
| Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher | Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power | Scribner | 2016 | 978-1-5011-5577-2 | Trump urged his Twitter followers not to buy the biography.[48][49][50] |
| Time editors | Donald Trump: The Rise of a Rule Breaker | Time | 2016 | 978-1-68330-416-6 | |
| Anastasia Catris | Where's Trump? Find Donald Trump in his race to the White House | Orion | 2016 | 978-1-4091-6773-0 | |
| David Cay Johnston | The Making of Donald Trump | Melville House | 2016 | 978-1-61219-632-9 | The author researched Trump for 30 years prior to writing the biography.[51] |
| Ann Coulter | In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome! | Sentinel | 2016 | 978-0-7352-1446-0 | The e-book was a New York Times bestseller in September 2016.[52] |
| Jackson Katz | Man Enough? Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and the Politics of Presidential Masculinity | Interlink | 2016 | 978-1-56656-083-2 | |
| Seth Milstein | The Little Book of Trumpisms | Portico | 2016 | 978-1-911042-38-9 | |
| Ted Rall | Trump: A Graphic Biography | Seven Stories Press | 2016 | 978-1-60980-758-0 | [47] |
| Alan Whiticker | Trumped: The Wonderful World and Wisdom of Donald Trump | New Holland | 2016 | 978-1-74257-896-5 | |
| Jeffrey Lord | What America Needs: The Case for Trump | Regnery | 2016 | 978-1-62157-523-8 | |
| Wayne Barrett | Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Deals, the Downfall, the Reinvention | Simon and Schuster | 2016 | 978-1-942872-97-9 | [53] |
| Katy Tur | Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History | Dey Street Books | 2017 | 978-0-06-268492-9 | |
| Ivana Trump | Raising Trump] | Gallery Books | 2017 | 978-1-5011-7728-6 | |
| Jon Sopel | If Only They Didn't Speak English | BBC Books | 2017 | 978-1-78594-226-6 | |
| Roger Stone | The Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution | Skyhorse | 2017 | 978-1-5107-2692-5 | |
| Joshua Green | Devil's Bargain | Penguin | 2017 | 978-0-7352-2502-2 | |
| Matt Taibbi | Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus | Spiegel & Grau | 2017 | 978-0-399-59246-1 | Book was both on The New York Times Best Seller list and the Los Angeles Times Best Seller list[54][55] |
| Newt Gingrich | Understanding Trump | Center Street | 2017 | 978-1-4789-2308-4 | The book topped The New York Times' Hardcover Non-Fiction Best Sellers list on July 2.[56] |
| David Horowitz | Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America | Humanix Books | 2017 | 978-1-63006-087-9 | |
| Scott Adams | Win Bigly | Portfolio | 2017 | 978-0-7352-1971-7 | |
| Bandy X. Lee | The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump | Thomas Dunne Books | 2017 | 978-1-250-17945-6 | [57] |
| Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie | Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency | Center Street | 2017 | 978-1-5460-8330-6 | |
| Allan Lichtman | The Case for Impeachment | Dey Street Books | 2017 | 978-0-06-269682-3 | |
| Malcolm Nance | The Plot to Hack America: How Putin’s Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election | Skyhorse | 2016 | 978-1-5107-2332-0 | The Wall Street Journal Best Seller in nonfiction ebooks[58] |
| Stephen Mansfield | Choosing Donald Trump: God, Anger, Hope, and Why Christian Conservatives Supported Him | Baker Books | 2017 | 978-0-8010-0733-0 | |
| Keith Olbermann | Trump is F*cking Crazy (This is Not a Joke) | Blue Rider Press | 2017 | 978-0-525-53386-3 | |
| Caitríona Perry | In America: Tales from Trump Country | Gill | 2017 | 978-0-7171-7953-4 | |
| Nathan J. Robinson | Trump: Anatomy of a Monstrosity | Demilune Press | 2017 | 978-0-9978447-7-1 | |
| Michael Savage | Trump's War: His Battle for America | Center Street | 2017 | 978-1-4789-7667-7 | |
| Laura Ingraham | Billionaire at the Barricades | St. Martin's Press | 2017 | 978-1-2501-5064-6 | |
| Phyllis Schafly; posthumously, with Ed Martin and Brett M. Decker | The Conservative Case for Trump | Regnery | 2016 | 978-1-62157-628-0 | |
| Andrew Shaffer | The Day of the Donald: Trump Trumps America! | Crooked Lane Books | 2016 | 978-1-68331-045-7 | |
| Hart Seely | Bard of the Deal: The Poetry of Donald Trump | HarperCollins | 2015 | 978-0-06-246516-0 | |
| Rob Sears | The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump | Canongate Books | 2017 | 978-1-78689-227-0 | |
| Marc Shapiro | Trump This! The Life and Times of Donald Trump, An Unauthorized Biography | Riverdale Avenue Books | 2016 | 978-1-62601-264-6 | |
| Dan Bongino, D.C. McAllister, and Matt Palumbo | Spygate: The Attempted Sabotage of Donald J. Trump | Post Hill Press | 2018 | 978-1-64293-098-6 | |
| Hal Brands | American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump | Brookings Institution | 2018 | 978-0-8157-3278-5 | |
| David Brody | The Faith of Donald J. Trump | Broadside Books | 2018 | 978-0-06-274959-8 | [59] |
| Craig Unger | House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia | Dutton | 2018 | 978-1-524-74350-5 | |
| Seth Hettena | Trump/Russia: A Definitive History | Melville House | 2018 | 978-1612197395 | |
| Bob Woodward | Fear: Trump in the White House | Simon & Schuster | 2018 | 978-1-5011-7551-0 | |
| Michael Wolff | Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House | Henry Holt and Company | 2018 | 978-1-250-15806-2 | |
| Anthony Scaramucci | Trump: The Blue-Collar President | Center Street, Hachette Book Group | 2018 | 978-1-5460-7640-7 | [60] |
| Alan Dershowitz | The Case Against Impeaching Trump | Hot Books | 2018 | 978-1-5107-4228-4 | |
| David Frum | Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic | Harper | 2018 | 978-0-06-279673-8 | |
| Newt Gingrich | Trump's America: The Truth about Our Nation's Great Comeback | Center Street | 2018 | 978-1-5460-7706-0 | |
| Luke Harding | Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win | Vintage | 2018 | 978-0-525-56251-1 | |
| David Cay Johnston | It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America | Simon & Schuster | 2018 | 978-1-5011-7416-2 | |
| Howard Kurtz | Media Madness: Donald Trump, the Press, and the War Over the Truth | Regnery | 2018 | 978-1-62157-726-3 | |
| Michael Lewis | The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy | W.W. Norton & Company | 2018 | 978-0-393-35745-5 | |
| Omarosa Manigault Newman | Unhinged | Gallery Publishing Group | 2018 | 978-1-9821-0970-7 | Trump reacted by referring to Manigault Newman as a "lowlife" and "that dog".[61] |
| Michael Nelson | Trump's First Year | University of Virginia Press | 2018 | 978-0-8139-4144-8 | |
| Anonymous (Miles Taylor) | A Warning | Twelve Books | 2019 | 978-1-5387-1846-9 | Written by the anonymous Trump White House official who wrote "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration" in September 2018. |
| James D. Zirin | Plaintiff in Chief: A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3,500 Lawsuits | St. Martin's Publishsing Group | 2019 | 978-1250201621 | [62] |
| Victor Davis Hanson | The Case for Trump | Basic Books | 2019 | 978-1-5416-7354-0 | |
| Neil Katyal and Sam Koppelman | Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump | 2019 | 978-0-358-39117-3 | ||
| James Poniewozik | Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America | Liveright | 2019 | 978-1-63149-442-0 | [63] |
| Rick Reilly | Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump | Hachette Books | 2019 | 978-0-316-52808-5 | [64] |
| Michael Wolff | Siege: Trump Under Fire | Henry Holt and Company | 2019 | 978-1-250-25382-8 | |
| Bill O'Reilly | The United States of Trump: How the President Really Sees America | Henry Holt and Company | 2019 | 978-1-250-23722-4 | |
| Jim Acosta | The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America | Harper | 2019 | 978-0-06-291612-9 | |
| Peter Bergen | Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos | Penguin Random House | 2019 | 978-0525522416 | |
| Doug Wead | Inside Trump's White House: The Real Story Of His Presidency | Center Street | 2019 | 978-1-5460-8585-0 | |
| Jonathan Karl | Front Row at the Trump Show | Dutton | 2020 | 978-1-5247-4562-2 | |
| Sarah Kendzior | Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America | Flatiron Books | 2020 | 978-1-250-21071-5 | |
| Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig | A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America | Penguin (US); Bloomsbury (UK) | 2020 | 978-1-9848-7749-9 | Details the first three years of the Trump presidency. |
| Michael Jolls | Make Hollywood Great Again: Cinema in the Era of President Trump | Kindle Direct Publishing | 2020 | 979-8634377155 | |
| Jeffrey Toobin | True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump | Doubleday | 2020 | 978-0-385-53673-8 | |
| Michael Cohen | Disloyal, A Memoir: The True Story Of The Former Personal Attorney To President Donald J. Trump | Skyhorse | 2020 | 978-1-5107-6469-9 | |
| Norman Eisen | A Case for the American People: The United States v. Donald J. Trump | Crown | 2020 | 978-0-593-23843-1 | |
| Michael S. Schmidt | Donald Trump v. The United States | Penguin Random House | 2020 | 978-1-9848-5466-7 | Sep. 2020 release |
| Richard Ryan | The Last Presidential Election: How Donald Trump has Subverted our Institutions, Undermined our Constitution, and Threatened the future of our Democracy | Goldflex Pubs with Lulu | 2020 | 978-1-71683-121-8 | |
| John Bolton | The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir | Simon & Schuster | 2020 | 978-1-9821-4803-4 | The Trump administration unsuccessfully sought to block release of the book; a US federal judge denied this request.[65] |
| Peter Strzok | Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 2020 | 978-0-358-23706-8 | Excerpted on CBS News website[66] |
| Mary L. Trump | Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man | Simon & Schuster | 2020 | 978-1-5011-7728-6 | |
| Barbara Res | Tower of Lies: What My Eighteen Years of Working with Donald Trump Reveals about Him | Graymalkin Media | 2020 | 978-1-63168-304-6 | [67] |
| Lawrence Douglas | Will He Go?: Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown in 2020 | Twelve Books | 2020 | 978-1-5387-5188-6 | [68] |
| Daniel W. Drezner | The Toddler in Chief: What Donald Trump Teaches Us About the Modern Presidency | University of Chicago Press | 2020 | 978-0-226-71425-7 | |
| Michael D'Antonio | High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump | Thomas Dunne Books | 2020 | 978-1-250-76667-0 | |
| Bob Woodward | Rage | Simon & Schuster | 2020 | 978-1-9821-3173-9 | Sep. 15 hardcover release |
| Stephanie Winston Wolkoff | Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady | Gallery Books | 2020 | 978-1-9821-5124-9 | |
| Dan P McAdams | The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump: A Psychological Reckoning | Oxford University Press | 2020 | 978-0-19-750747-6 | McAdams is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology, and Professor of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. |
| Jennifer Mercieca | Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump | Texas A&M University Press | 2020 | 978-1-62349-906-8 | [69] |
| Dan Alexander | White House, Inc.: How Donald Trump Turned the Presidency Into a Business | Portfolio/Penguin | 2020 | 978-0593188521 | [70] |
| Bandy X. Lee | Profile of a Nation: Trump's Mind, America's Soul | World Mental Health Coalition, Inc. | 2020 | 978-173555374-0 | [71] |
| David Enrich | Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction | Custom House | 2021 | 978-0062878830 | |
| Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta | Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration's Response to the Pandemic That Changed History | HarperCollins | 2021 | 978-0-06-306607-6 | [72][73][74] |
| Michael C. Bender | Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost | Grand Central Publishing | 2021 | 978-1538734803 | [75] |
| Michael Wolff | Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency | Henry Holt and Co. | 2021 | 978-1250830012 | [76] |
| Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker | I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year | Penguin Press | 2021 | 978-0593298947 | [77] |
| Mary L. Trump | The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal | St. Martin's Publishing Group | 2021 | 978-1-250278-45-6 | |
| Bob Woodward and Robert Costa | Peril | Simon & Schuster | 2021 | 978-1-982182-91-5 | |
| Maggie Haberman | Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America | Penguin Press | 2022 | 978-0-593-29734-6 | |
| Martin Martin | Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and The Washington Post | Flatiron Books | 2023 | 978-1-250-84420-0 | |
| H. R. McMaster | At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House | Harper | 2024 | 978-0-062-89950-7 | |
| Fred Trump III | All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way | Gallery Books | 2024 | 978-1-668-07217-2 | |
| Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig | Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success | Penguin Press | 2024 | 978-0-593-29864-0 |
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlos Lozada | What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era | Simon & Schuster | 2020 | 978-1-9821-4562-0 | [78] |
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