List of memoirs by first ladies of the United States

Book Cover of "What Happened" by former U.S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Thirteen first ladies of the United States have written a total of 22 memoirs. Every memoir by a first lady published in the 20th and 21st centuries has been a bestseller, at times outselling those of their presidential husbands.

Memoirs

Title	First lady	Publisher	Year	Identifier
Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant	Grant, JuliaJulia Grant	Putnam Publishing Group	1975	ISBN 978-0-399-11386-4 OCLC 1362819
Recollections of Full Years	Taft, HelenHelen Taft	Dodd, Mead & Company	1914	OCLC 1071952821
My Memoir	Wilson, EdithEdith Wilson	Bobbs-Merrill Company	1939	OCLC 300015696
This is My Story	Roosevelt, EleanorEleanor Roosevelt	Harper & Brothers	1937	OCLC 1222392544
This I Remember	Roosevelt, EleanorEleanor Roosevelt	Harper & Brothers	1949	OCLC 1222358304
On My Own: The Years since the White House	Roosevelt, EleanorEleanor Roosevelt	Harper & Brothers	1958	OCLC 1007583041
Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt	Roosevelt, EleanorEleanor Roosevelt	Harper & Brothers	1961	OCLC 241967
White House Diary A White House Diary	Johnson, Lady BirdLady Bird Johnson	Holt, Rinehart & Winston	1970	ISBN 978-0-03-085254-1OCLC 247688211
Times of My Life The Times of My Life	Ford, BettyBetty Ford	Harper & Row	1978	ISBN 978-0-06-011298-1OCLC 1089520085
Betty: A Glad Awakening	Ford, BettyBetty Ford	Doubleday	1987	ISBN 978-0-385-23502-0OCLC 624464837
First Lady from Plains	Carter, RosalynnRosalynn Carter	Houghton Mifflin	1984	ISBN 978-0-395-35294-6OCLC 608350043
Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life	Carter, RosalynnRosalynn Carter	Random House	1987	ISBN 978-0-394-55858-5OCLC 1020180943
Nancy: The Autobiography of America's First Lady	Reagan, NancyNancy Reagan	HarperCollins	1980	ISBN 978-0-688-03533-4OCLC 5613799
My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan	Reagan, NancyNancy Reagan	Random House	1989	ISBN 978-0-394-56368-8OCLC 19921006
Barbara Bush: A Memoir	Bush, BarbaraBarbara Bush	Scribner	1994	ISBN 978-0-02-519635-3OCLC 733651482
Reflections: Life After the White House	Bush, BarbaraBarbara Bush	Scribner	2004	ISBN 978-0-7432-5582-0OCLC 57355785
Living History	Clinton, HillaryHillary Clinton	Simon & Schuster	2003	ISBN 978-0-7432-2224-2OCLC 961885123
Hard Choices	Clinton, HillaryHillary Clinton	Simon & Schuster	2014	ISBN 978-1-4767-5144-3OCLC 900303720
What Happened	Clinton, HillaryHillary Clinton	Simon & Schuster	2017	ISBN 978-1-5011-7556-5OCLC 1003606642
Spoken from the Heart	Bush, LauraLaura Bush	Scribner	2010	ISBN 978-1-4391-5520-2OCLC 669262090
Becoming	Michelle Obama	Crown Publishing Group	2018	ISBN 978-1-5247-6313-8OCLC 1079014347
Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself	Biden, JillJill Biden	Flatiron Books	2019	ISBN 978-1-250-18234-0 List Of Memoirs By First Ladies Of The United States Media Title page of Recollections of Full Years by Helen Taft OCLC 1198401967