The man reads Gilead for the love of ...

Maybe we should choose a president by their reading choices - or how witty their jokes are - or whether they can distinguish between fiction and non-fiction.

Last fictional book they read:
Democrats

• Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware: Runaway Jury by John Grisham.
• Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York: Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
• Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut: The Broker by John Grisham.
• John Edwards, former North Carolina senator: Exile by Richard North Patterson.
• Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio: Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman.
• Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson.
• Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico: "The administration's energy plan."

Republicans

• Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas: The Dream Giver by Bruce Wilkinson with David and Heather Kopp.
• Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City: The Beach House by James Patterson and Peter De Jonge.
• Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas: "My oldest son's screenplay."
• Rep. Duncan Hunter of California: "The Democrats' proposal to balance the budget."
• Sen. John McCain of Arizona: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway.
• Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts: Term Limits by Vince Flynn.
• Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado: An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore.

Gilead is not a easy, pleasurable read. It is a window into god-fearing midwest stoicism. The man who reads that book for fun is a man who gets the people of the heartland far better than I do.

It looks like The Dream Giver is the bat-shittiest book here with the right wind revenge fantasy Term Limits coming in a close second.