A few weeks ago Ayelet Waldman emailed a few writer friends and asked them to donate signed books for a Barack Obama fundraiser hosted by Bay Area chef Alice Waters on Sept. 26. “Well, the thing went completely viral,” Ayelet writes at her blog. “I have hundreds of books in my living room…. I’ve got signed first editions from Stephen King, Amy Tan, Anne Tyler, Russel Banks, Judy Blume (a first of Wifey!!), Chris Bohjalian, Billy Collins, Jamie Lee Curtis,Liza Dalby, Karen Joy Fowler, Nora Ephron, Khaled Hosseini, Steve Martin, Greil Marcus, Jodi Picoult, and those are only the ones I can see at the top of the piles!!! This whole thing is mind-boggling.”

Ayelet and husband Michael Chabon (who chronicled his trek to the DNC for The New York Review of Books) already have raised more than $100,000 for the Obama campaign.

Browse the complete list of contributing writers here.

Read more: YA writers blog for Obama. Leah Garchik’s column. Jacket Copy. Ghost Word.

Shout out: Writers for Obama buttons.

***Postscript: Ayelet writes on Sept. 24: “So many orders for books4barack poured in, that despite the fact that there are 1000 books in my living room from authors around the country, I’m nearly 500 books short!!! Writers, please, please send me your books…”