Democratic Book Social Cataloging Straw Poll

While the political journalists focus on the money primary, endorsements (do any voters really care who my employer endorses, especially in the Republican primary?), and the Iowa Caucuses, I've decided to look at a totally trivial constituency: people who list their books on Librarything, one of my favorite websites.

The clear leader in literary popularity is Barack Obama, with 1142 libraries including the Audacity of Hope, and another 898 his memoir, Dreams From My Father. Hillary Rodham Clinton runs second, with 835 copies of Living History and only 188 copies of "It Takes a Village." Obama's work also gets a better rating - 3.93 average, against 3.35 for Clinton (out of a possible 5 stars).

The rest of the pack:

• John Edwards - 58 copies (but a very impressive 4.5 rating for "Four Trials")


• Dennis Kucinich - 25


• Christopher Dodd - 21


• Bill Richardson - 18


• Joe Biden - 7


• Mike Gravel - 6