...you assume that the John Piper who is the subject of a set of quiz show questions is the evangelical Christian writer rather than the stained glass artist.

I'm not doing the unread books meme again, because I actually invented it on Sunday. It's funny how these things catch on - it seems to have been copied onto upwards of 300 blogs, and now has even reached the on-line section of the Daily Telegraph. Very gratifying.

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicise what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. The numbers after each one are the number of LT users who used the tag of that book (that is, last time that the algorithm was done - when I checked, I found most of them had a few more added to the total).

( list of books )

Over at Librarything, they are adding Thomas Jefferson's catalogue to their stock, along with all his notes on books read. Here is his review of Plato's Republic, from a letter to John Adams written on 5 July 1814 (two years after their reconciliation, almost exactly twelve years before they both died). He was not impressed:

( Jefferson on Plato )