| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN / ASIN | Notes |
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| Jerome Tuccille | Trump: The Saga of America's Most Powerful Real Estate Baron | Penguin | 1985 | 978-1-55611-069-6 |
| John O'Donnell and James Rutherford | Trumped!: The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump – His Cunning Rise and Spectacular Fall | Simon & Schuster | 1991 | 978-0-671-73735-1 | Trump called the author O'Donnell "a fucking loser".[39] |
| John Connolly | How to Fool All of the People, All of the Time | Spy | 1991 | ASIN B01ICCQITE (Kindle) | The e-book was published in July 2016[40][41] |
| Wayne Barrett | Trump: The Deals and the Downfall | HarperCollins | 1992 | 978-0-06-016704-2 |
| Harry Hurt III | Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J.
Trump | Norton | 1993 | 978-0-393-03029-7 |
| Gwenda Blair | The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire | Simon & Schuster | 2000 | 0-684-80849-8 | [42] |
| Robert Slater | No Such Thin
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