Our peripatetic spies spotted the following books being read by their fellow travelers this week. We decided just for fun to try categorizing the readers by age and gender to see if we could spot any patterns. This is what we came up with. Any comments?
Teenagers
Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man
Bill Floyd – The Killer’s Wife
John Leguizamo – Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, and All the Rest of My Hollywood Friends: My Life
Jeannette Walls – The Glass Castle: A Memoir
20-Something Casually Dressed Women
Barbara Taylor Bradford – A Woman of Substance
Jerold J. Kreisman and Hal Straus – I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
Jhumpa Lahiri – Unaccustomed Earth
Marion Nestle – Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
20-Something Professionally Dressed Women
Laurell K. Hamilton – Incubus Dreams
David McCullough – John Adams
James Patterson – The Beach House
James Patterson – Roses Are Red
Anne Perry – The Hyde Park Headsman
Lisa Unger – Beautiful Lies
Richard Yancey – Confessions of a Tax Collector: One Man’s Tour of Duty Inside the IRS
20-Something Casually Dressed Men
Philip Carlo – The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer
Jeffrey Eugenides – Middlesex
Anthony Greenbank – The Book of Survival: The Original Guide to Staying Alive in the City, the Suburbs, and the Wild Lands Beyond
Robert Jordan – The Great Hunt
Michael Lewis – Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
20-Something Professionally Dressed Men
Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun – Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible
Winston Groom – Forrest Gump
Middle-Aged Casually Dressed Women
Julie Garwood – Shadow Dance
Joyce Meyer – The Secret Power of Speaking God’s Word
Lyn Oxenford – Playing Period Plays
Middle-Aged Professionally Dressed Women
Sarah Vowell – The Partly Cloudy Patriot
Middle-Aged Casually Dressed Men
Zane Grey – Riders of the Purple Sage
Lawrence Wright – The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Middle-Aged Professionally Dressed Men
Isaac Asimov – Forward the Foundation
Tim Dorsey – Atomic Lobster
Tim Sanders – The Like Ability Factor
