Bibliography of Donald Trump
This bibliography of Donald Trump is a list of written and published works, by and about Donald Trump, 45th 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, 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 ' 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 predecessor Barack Obama during his first year in office.
His 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 and Crippled America, 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.
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, with Lozada writing: "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.
Credited to Trump
| Title | Year | Publisher | ISBN / ASIN | Ghostwriter | Notes |
| ' | 1987 | Random House | Schwartz discussed his ghostwriting, in a 2016 article in The New Yorker. | ||
| ' | 1990 | Random House | Subsequently, as: The Art of Survival, | ||
| ' | 1997 | Times Books | |||
| 2000 | Renaissance Books | Published during decision-making process for the Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2000. | |||
| ' | 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 | 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 | Uncredited ghostwriter | Subsequently, as: Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America |