Book Lists Compared June 12, 2018June 12, 2018 The only book we know for sure President Trump has read — indeed, kept by his bedside, if you believe his ex-wife — is My New Order, a 1941 compendium of Hitler’s speeches. By contrast, President Obama — who actually thought of Canada as an ally and Russia as the national security threat — read 100 books in just the years he was president. And then there was President Clinton’s extraordinary reading list. Now — from reading books to writing them — comes The President Is Missing, by President Clinton and James Patterson. I just finished 8.5 heart-clenching hours listening at 1.5X speed. Oh. My. It’s just fiction, of course. But you do get the distinct sense we have more to worry about than Canada.