So when running for President does it help to write a book? Or when selling a book, does it help to run for President? Who knows? One thing we do know is that if people are buying someones book they are interested in what they have to say. So book sales can show us how interested people are in what the candidate has to say, or in this case write.

Below is our attempt to provide the most complete list of books authored by candidates running or who have run for the office of President in 2004. We have tried to remove books where the candidate only wrote the preface or introduction. In some cases it was hard to tell, so we left those in. The number to the left is the Amazon sales rank. Amazon is constantly updating their sales rank numbers, so check back to see how the books are moving up and down the rankings. The lower the sales rank number, the more books that candidate is selling.