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. Biographer Michael D'Antonio observed in (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.[1] This "Trump bump" for the U.S. publishing industry, as The New York Times put it, persisted throughout his time in office.[2] But afterwards, demand for books about his presidency dropped off sharply.[3]
Trump's first published book in 1987 was , written by ghostwriter Tony Schwartz. Trump made a practice of hiring ghostwriters and co-authors to write his books. 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. "...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."[4]
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. Trump's published writings shifted post-2000, from generally memoirs about himself to books giving advice about finance.
| Title | Year | Publisher | ISBN / OCLC | Ghostwriter(s) | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Random House | 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.[5] | ||||
| 1990 | Random House | Subsequently, as: The Art of Survival (1991), | ||||
| 1997 | Times Books | |||||
| 2000 | Renaissance Books | Published during decision-making process for the Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2000.[6] | ||||
| 2004 | Random House | |||||
| 2004 | Crown Business | |||||
| Think Like a Billionaire: Everything You Need to Know About Success, Real Estate, and Life | 2004 | Random House | Meredith McIver | |||
| 2005 | Crown | |||||
| Why We Want You to Be Rich | 2006 | Rich Press | Meredith McIver | Robert Kiyosaki as coauthor. Debuted at number one on The New York Times best seller list | ||
| How to Build a Fortune: Your Plan for Success From the World's Most Famous Businessman | 2006 | Trump University | Audiobook | |||
| 2006 | Thomas Nelson | |||||
| Trump 101: The Way to Success | 2006 | Wiley | Meredith McIver | The Washington Post, Politico, and CNN called the work a "Trump University book". | ||
| Think Big and Kick Ass | 2007 | HarperCollins | Trump and Zanker had prior business dealings through Zanker's company The Learning Annex. | |||
| Never Give Up: How I Turned My Biggest Challenges into Success | 2008 | Wiley | Meredith McIver | |||
| Think Like a Champion: An Informal Education in Business and Life | 2009 | Vanguard Press | Meredith McIver | |||
| Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again | 2011 | Regnery | [7] Peter Schweizer Meredith McIver | On the Issues noted changes in political views compared with prior book The America We Deserve. | ||
| Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich – And Why Most Don't | 2011 | Plata Publishing | Second collaboration with co-author Robert Kiyosaki after Why We Want You to Be Rich | |||
| Trump Tower | 2011 | Vanguard Press | The book was billed as Trump's "debut novel", and later released with Jeffrey Robinson credited as the sole author. | |||
| Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again | 2015 | Threshold Editions | David Fisher[8] [9] [10] | |||
| Our Journey Together | 2021 | Winning Team Publishing | ||||
| Letters to Trump | 2023 | Winning Team Publishing | ||||
| Save America | 2024 | Winning Team Publishing | Slated to be published on September 3, 2024.[11] |
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN / ASIN | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trump: The Saga of America's Most Powerful Real Estate Baron | Penguin | 1985 | ||||
| and James Rutherford | Trumped!: The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump – His Cunning Rise and Spectacular Fall | Simon & Schuster | 1991 | Trump called the author O'Donnell "a fucking loser".[12] | ||
| How to Fool All of the People, All of the Time | Spy | 1991 | (Kindle) | The e-book was published in July 2016[13] [14] | ||
| Trump: The Deals and the Downfall | HarperCollins | 1992 | ||||
| Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump | Norton | 1993 | ||||
| Simon & Schuster | 2000 | [15] | ||||
| No Such Thing as Over-exposure: Inside the Life and Celebrity of Donald Trump | Prentice Hall | 2005 | ||||
| TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald | Warner Books | 2005 | Trump sued the author for libel and the case was dismissed, Trump then appealed, and the dismissal was affirmed.[16] [17] [18] | |||
| Donald Trump: The Candidate | Simon & Schuster | 2007 | [19] | |||
| Trump-Style Negotiation: Powerful Strategies and Tactics for Mastering Every Deal | John Wiley & Sons | 2008 | ||||
| Chasing Paradise: Donald Trump and the Battle for the World's Greatest Golf Course | Black & White | 2010 | ||||
| Overlook Press | 2012 | |||||
| Encounter Books | 2015 | |||||
| Thomas Dunne Books | 2015 | Subsequently, as: The Truth About Trump. St. Martin's Press, 2016. . | ||||
| and Marc Fisher | Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power | Scribner | 2016 | Trump urged his Twitter followers not to buy the biography. | ||
| Time editors | Donald Trump: The Rise of a Rule Breaker | Time | 2016 | |||
| Where's Trump? Find Donald Trump in his race to the White House | Orion | 2016 | ||||
| Melville House | 2016 | The author researched Trump for 30 years prior to writing the biography.[20] | ||||
| In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome! | Sentinel | 2016 | The e-book was a New York Times bestseller in September 2016.[21] | |||
| Man Enough? Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and the Politics of Presidential Masculinity | Interlink | 2016 | ||||
| Portico | 2016 | |||||
| Trump: A Graphic Biography | Seven Stories Press | 2016 | ||||
| Trumped: The Wonderful World and Wisdom of Donald Trump | New Holland | 2016 | ||||
| What America Needs: The Case for Trump | Regnery | 2016 | ||||
| Simon and Schuster | 2016 | [22] | ||||
| Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History | Dey Street Books | 2017 | ||||
| Raising Trump | Gallery Books | 2017 | ||||
| If Only They Didn’t Speak English | BBC Books | 2017 | ||||
| Skyhorse | 2017 | |||||
| Devil's Bargain | Penguin | 2017 | ||||
| Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus | Spiegel & Grau | 2017 | Book was both on The New York Times Best Seller list and the Los Angeles Times Best Seller list | |||
| Understanding Trump | Center Street | 2017 | The book topped The New York Times Hardcover Non-Fiction Best Sellers list on July 2.[23] | |||
| Big Agenda: President Trump’s Plan to Save America | Humanix Books | 2017 | ||||
| Win Bigly | Portfolio | 2017 | ||||
| Thomas Dunne Books | 2017 | [24] | ||||
| and David Bossie | Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency | Center Street | 2017 | |||
| Dey Street Books | 2017 | |||||
| Skyhorse | 2016 | The Wall Street Journal Best Seller in nonfiction ebooks | ||||
| Choosing Donald Trump: God, Anger, Hope, and Why Christian Conservatives Supported Him | Baker Books | 2017 | ||||
| Trump is F*cking Crazy (This is Not a Joke) | Blue Rider Press | 2017 | ||||
| In America: Tales from Trump Country | Gill | 2017 | ||||
| Trump: Anatomy of a Monstrosity | Demilune Press | 2017 | ||||
| Trump's War: His Battle for America | Center Street | 2017 | ||||
| Billionaire at the Barricades | St. Martin's Press | 2017 | ||||
| Regnery | 2016 | ||||
| The Day of the Donald: Trump Trumps America! | Crooked Lane Books | 2016 | ||||
| Bard of the Deal: The Poetry of Donald Trump | HarperCollins | 2015 | ||||
| The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump | Canongate Books | 2017 | ||||
| Trump This! The Life and Times of Donald Trump, An Unauthorized Biography | Riverdale Avenue Books | 2016 | ||||
| , D.C. McAllister, and Matt Palumbo | Spygate: The Attempted Sabotage of Donald J. Trump | Post Hill Press | 2018 | |||
| American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump | Brookings Institution | 2018 | ||||
| Broadside Books | 2018 | [25] | ||||
| Dutton | 2018 | |||||
| Melville House | 2018 | |||||
| Simon & Schuster | 2018 | |||||
| Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House | Henry Holt and Company | 2018 | ||||
| Center Street, Hachette Book Group | 2018 | [26] | ||||
| Hot Books | 2018 | |||||
| Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic | Harper | 2018 | ||||
| Trump's America: The Truth about Our Nation's Great Comeback | Center Street | 2018 | ||||
| Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win | Vintage | 2018 | ||||
| It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America | Simon & Schuster | 2018 | ||||
| Media Madness: Donald Trump, the Press, and the War Over the Truth | Regnery | 2018 | ||||
| Michael Lewis | The Fifth Risk Undoing Democracy | W.W. Norton & Company | 2018 | |||
| Unhinged | Gallery Publishing Group | 2018 | Trump reacted by referring to Manigault Newman as a "lowlife" and "that dog".[27] | |||
| Trump's First Year | University of Virginia Press | 2018 | ||||
| Anonymous (Miles Taylor) | A Warning | Twelve Books | 2019 | 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 | [28] | ||
| Basic Books | 2019 | |||||
| Neil Katyal and Sam Koppelman | Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump | 2019 | ||||
| Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America | Liveright | 2019 | [29] | |||
| Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump | Hachette Books | 2019 | [30] | |||
| Michael Wolff | Henry Holt and Company | 2019 | ||||
| Bill O'Reilly | The United States of Trump: How the President Really Sees America | Henry Holt and Company | 2019 | |||
| The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America | Harper | 2019 | ||||
| Penguin Random House | 2019 | |||||
| Doug Wead | Inside Trump's White House: The Real Story Of His Presidency | Center Street | 2019 | |||
| Jonathan Karl | Front Row at the Trump Show | Dutton | 2020 | |||
| Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America | Flatiron Books | 2020 | ||||
| and | A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America | Penguin (US); Bloomsbury (UK) | 2020 | 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 (publisher) | Kindle Direct Publishing | 2020 | ||
| True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump | Doubleday | 2020 | ||||
| Michael Cohen | Disloyal, A Memoir: The True Story Of The Former Personal Attorney To President Donald J. Trump | Skyhorse | 2020 | |||
| A Case for the American People: The United States v. Donald J. Trump | Crown | 2020 | ||||
| Michael S. Schmidt | Donald Trump v. The United States | Penguin Random House | 2020 | 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 | |||
| The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir | Simon & Schuster | 2020 | The Trump administration unsuccessfully sought to block release of the book; a US federal judge denied this request.[31] | |||
| Peter Strzok | Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 2020 | Excerpted on CBS News website[32] | ||
| Simon & Schuster | 2020 | |||||
| Graymalkin Media | 2020 | [33] | ||||
| Twelve Books | 2020 | [34] | ||||
| University of Chicago Press | 2020 | |||||
| Thomas Dunne Books | 2020 | |||||
| Rage | Simon & Schuster | 2020 | Sep. 15 hardcover release | |||
| Stephanie Winston Wolkoff | Melania and Me The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady | Gallery Books | 2020 | |||
| Oxford University Press | 2020 | McAdams is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology, and Professor of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. | ||||
| Texas A&M University Press | 2020 | [35] | ||||
| Dan Alexander | Portfolio/Penguin | 2020 | [36] | |||
| Bandy X. Lee | Profile of a Nation: Trump's Mind, America's Soul | World Mental Health Coalition, Inc. | 2020 | [37] | ||
| Custom House | 2021 | |||||
| Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta | Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration's Response to the Pandemic That Changed History | HarperCollins | 2021 | [38] [39] [40] | ||
| Michael C. Bender | Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost | Grand Central Publishing | 2021 | [41] | ||
| Michael Wolff | Henry Holt and Co. | 2021 | [42] | |||
| Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker | I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year | Penguin Press | 2021 | [43] | ||
| The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal | St. Martin's Publishing Group | 2021 | ||||
| and Robert Costa | Peril | Simon & Schuster | 2021 | |||
| Penguin Press | 2022 | |||||
| Martin Martin | Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and The Washington Post | Flatiron Books | 2023 |