Books:
Audacity of Hope (2006);
Dreams From My Father (1995)
Weeks on New York Times Best Sellers List: 270
Total copies sold: 4,650,000
Reported Advances:
$500,000 for abridged version of
Dreams From My Father,
$425,000 for
The Audacity of Hope.
Books:
Why Not the Best?(1975 );
A Government as Good as Its People (1977);
Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President (1982);
Negotiation: The Alternative to Hostility (1984);
The Blood of Abraham: Insights Into the Middle East (1985);
Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life (1987), with Rosalynn Carter;
An Outdoor Journal (1988);
Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age (1992);
Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation(1993);
Always a Reckoning (1995);
The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer (1995);
Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith (1997);
The Virtues of Aging (1998);
An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood (2001);
Christmas in Plains: Memories (2001);
The Hornet's Nest (2003);
Sharing Good Times (2004);
Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis (2005);
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid (2006);
A Remarkable Mother (2008);
Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope (2008);
We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work (2009);
White House Diary (2010)
Weeks on New York Times Bestsellers List: 130
Total copies sold: 2,218,000
Reported Advances: n/a
Books:
Giving (2007);
My Life (2004);
Between Hope and History (1996);
Putting People First (1992) with Al Gore
Weeks on New York Times Bestsellers List: 46
Total copies sold: 1,899,000
Reported Advances:
$15 million for
“My Life”
Books:
The Truth (With Jokes);
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (2004);
Oh, the Things I Know! (2002);
Why Not Me? The Inside Story of the Making and Unmaking of the Franken Presidency (2000);
Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot (1999);
I’m Good Enough, I’m Smart Enough and Doggone It, People Like Me!(1992);
You’re Good Enough, You’re Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like You!(1992)
Weeks on New York Times Bestsellers List: 103
Total copies sold: 1,777,000
Reported Advances: n/a
Books:
It Takes a Village (1996)
Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids’ Letters to the First Pets (1998);
An Invitation to the White House: A Home with History (2000);
Living History (2003)
Weeks on New York Times Bestsellers List: 63
Total copies sold: 1,491,000
Reported Advances:
$8 million for
“Living History”
Books:
Going Rogue (2009)
Weeks on New York Times Bestsellers List: 12
Total copies sold: 1,455,000
Reported Advances:
$1.25 million for
“Going Rogue”
Books:
To Save America (2010);
5 Principles for a Successful Life (2009);
Days of Infamy (2008);
Real Change (2007);
Rediscovering God in America (2006); Never Call Retreat (2005);
Lessons Learned the Hard Way (1998),
To Try Men’s Souls (2010);
A Contract With the Earth (2007)
Weeks on New York Times Bestsellers List: 50
Total copies sold: 1,098,000
Reported Advances: Offered
$4.5 million for two books in 1994, but turned it down for larger share of royalties after critics claimed he was cashing in on Republican victory during that year’s elections.
Books:
Our Choice (2009);
The Assault on Reason (2008);
Joined at the Heart (2003) with Tipper Gore;
The Spirit of Family (2002) with Tipper Gore;
Businesslike Government (1997);
Earth in the Balance (1992);
Putting People First (1992) with Bill Clinton
Weeks on New York Times Bestsellers List: 108
Total copies sold: 913,000
Reported Advances: n/a
Books:
True Compass (2009);
My Senator and Me (2006);
America Back on Track (2006);
Freeze! How You Can Help Prevent Nuclear War (1982);
In Critical Condition: The Crisis in America’s Health Care (1972);
Decisions for a Decade: Policies and Programs for the 1970s (1968)
Weeks on New York Times Bestsellers List: 17
Total copies sold: 651,000
Reported Advances:
$8 millionfor
True Compass
Books:
Faith of My Fathers (1999) with Mark Salter;
Worth the Fighting For (2002) with Mark Salter;
Why Courage Matters (2004) with Mark Salter;
Character Is Destiny (2005) with Mark Salter;
Hard Call (2007) with Mark Salter
Weeks on New York Times Bestsellers List: 35
Total copies sold: 614,000
Reported Advances: n/a
Books:
Decision Points (2010);
A Charge to Keep (2001)
Weeks on New York Times Best Sellers List: 8
Total copies sold: 434,000*
Reported Advances:
$7 million for
Decision Points *first week sales
Books:
A Simple Christmas (2009);
Do the Right Thing (2008);
Character Makes a Difference (2007);
From Hope to Higher Ground (2007);
Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork (2005);
Living Beyond Your Lifetime (2000);
Kids Who Kill (1998);
Character Is the Issue (1997)
Weeks on New York Times Bestsellers List: 12
Total copies sold: 419,000
Reported Advances: n/a
Books:
A Foreign Policy of Freedom (2007);
The Revolution: A Manifesto (2008);
End the Fed (2009)
Weeks on New York Times Bestsellers List: 13
Total copies sold: 281,000
Reported Advances: n/a
Books:
I Ain’t Got Time to Bleed (2000);
Do I Stand Alone? (2000);
Jesse Ventura Tells It Like It Is (2002);
Don’t Start the Revolution Without Me! (2008) with Dick Russell;
American Conspiracies (2010) with Dick Russell
Weeks on New York Times Bestsellers List: 22
Total copies sold: 130,000
Reported Advances:
$500,000 for
“I Ain’t Got Time To Bleed”
Books:
No Apology: The Case for American Greatness (2010);
Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership, and the Olympic Games (2007)
Weeks on New York Times Bestsellers List: 5
Total copies sold: 112,000
Reported Advances: n/a
Books:
Fields of Fire (1978);
A Sense of Honor (1981);
A Country Such as This (1983);
Something to Die For (1992);
The Emperor’s General (1999);
Lost Soldiers (2002);
Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America/
(2004);
A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America (2008)
Weeks on New York Times Bestsellers List: 5
Total copies sold: 111,000
Reported Advances: n/a
Books:
Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches (2009);
The China Diary of George H.W. Bush (2008);
Heartbeat: George Bush in His Own Words (2003);
All the Best, George Bush (2000);
A World Transformed(1999);
Looking Forward (1988) with Victor Gold
Weeks on New York Times Bestsellers List: 0
Total copies sold: 84,000
Reported Advances: n/a
Books:
The Journey From Here (2000);
The New American Story (2007);
Values of the Game (1998);
Time Present, Time Past (1996);
Life on the Run (1977)
Weeks on New York Times Bestsellers List: 17
Total copies sold: 69,000
Reported Advances: n/a
Books:
Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics (2008)
Weeks on New York Times Bestsellers List: 1
Total copies sold: 49,000
Reported Advances:
$224,000 for
Promises to Keep
Books:
Reckless!: How Debt, Deregulation, and Dark Money Nearly Bankrupted America (2009),
Take This Job and Ship It (2006)
Weeks on New York Times Bestsellers List: 0
Total copies sold: 26,000
Reported Advances:
$120,000 for
Reckless!
