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
Jane Austen – Emma
Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man

20-Something Casually Dressed Women
Anjanette Delgado – The Heartbreak Pill
Umberto Eco – The Name of the Rose
Laurell K. Hamilton – The Killing Dance
Ojeda Julie Nin – Friends Till the End
John E. Sarno – The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain
Zane – Succulent: Chocolate Flava II

20-Something Professionally Dressed Women
Marian Keyes – This Charming Man
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Love in the Time of Cholera (in Spanish)
Robert McCammon – Swan Song
Joseph E. Stiglitz – Making Globalization Work

20-Something Casually Dressed Men
Chuck Palahniuk – Choke
Ayn Rand – The Fountainhead

20-Something Professionally Dressed Men
William Gibson – Spook Country
Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner

30-Something Casually Dressed Women
Joshua Ferris – Then We Came to the End
Susan Isaacs – Compromising Positions
Courtney Long – Love Awaits: African American Women Talk About Sex, Love, and Life
Eckhart Tolle – Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

30-Something Professionally Dressed Women
Dave Eggers – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Erik Larson – The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

30-Something Casually Dressed Men
Karl Sabbagh – Skyscraper: The Making of a Building

30-Something Professionally Dressed Men
David Baldacci – Simple Genius
Robert Ludlum – The Scarlatti Inheritance
David Sedaris – Me Talk Pretty One Day

Middle-Aged Casually Dressed Women
David Baldacci – The Winner
Lindsey Davis – The Jupiter Myth
Junot Diaz – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Michael Evans – Son of a Snitch
Thomas Harris – Hannibal Rising
Tim Russert – Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons

Middle-Aged Professionally Dressed Women
Jeffrey Eugenides – Middlesex

Middle-Aged Casually Dressed Men
Alastair Reynolds – Revelation Space
Lawrence Wright – The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Middle-Aged Professionally Dressed Men
Thomas L. Friedman – The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Eric Idle – The Road to Mars
Val McDermid – Killing the Shadows
Neville Schute – On the Beach

If you spot a title or two as you travel around, please share and we’ll include them in the column. Just send them to raoblog@lu.com.

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