List of memoirs by first ladies of the United States

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.

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

Memoirs

Title	First lady	Publisher	Year	Identifier
Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant	Julia Grant	Putnam Publishing Group	1975	ISBN 978-0-399-11386-4 OCLC 1362819
Recollections of Full Years	Helen Taft	Dodd, Mead & Company	1914	OCLC 1071952821
My Memoir	Edith Wilson	Bobbs-Merrill Company	1939	OCLC 300015696
This is My Story	Eleanor Roosevelt	Harper & Brothers	1937	OCLC 1222392544
This I Remember	Eleanor Roosevelt	Harper & Brothers	1949	OCLC 1222358304
On My Own: The Years since the White House	Eleanor Roosevelt	Harper & Brothers	1958	OCLC 1007583041
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt	Eleanor Roosevelt	Harper & Brothers	1961	OCLC 241967
A White House Diary	Lady Bird Johnson	Holt, Rinehart & Winston	1970	ISBN 978-0-03-085254-1OCLC 247688211
The Times of My Life	Betty Ford	Harper & Row	1978	ISBN 978-0-06-011298-1OCLC 1089520085
Betty: A Glad Awakening	Betty Ford	Doubleday	1987	ISBN 978-0-385-23502-0OCLC 624464837
First Lady from Plains	Rosalynn Carter	Houghton Mifflin	1984	ISBN 978-0-395-35294-6OCLC 608350043
Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life	Rosalynn Carter	Random House	1987	ISBN 978-0-394-55858-5OCLC 1020180943
Nancy: The Autobiography of America's First Lady	Nancy Reagan	HarperCollins	1980	ISBN 978-0-688-03533-4OCLC 5613799
My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan	Nancy Reagan	Random House	1989	ISBN 978-0-394-56368-8OCLC 19921006
Barbara Bush: A Memoir	Barbara Bush	Scribner	1994	ISBN 978-0-02-519635-3OCLC 733651482
Reflections: Life After the White House	Barbara Bush	Scribner	2004	ISBN 978-0-7432-5582-0OCLC 57355785
Living History	Hillary Clinton	Simon & Schuster	2003	ISBN 978-0-7432-2224-2OCLC 961885123
Hard Choices	Hillary Clinton	Simon & Schuster	2014	ISBN 978-1-4767-5144-3OCLC 900303720
What Happened	Hillary Clinton	Simon & Schuster	2017	ISBN 978-1-5011-7556-5OCLC 1003606642
Spoken from the Heart	Laura 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	Jill Biden	Flatiron Books	2019	ISBN 978-1-250-18234-0OCLC 1198401967