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?
Kids
Kate DiCamillo – Because of Winn-Dixie
Teenagers
John Knowles – A Separate Peace
Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins – Tribulation Force
J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
20-Something Casually Dressed Women
Mitch Albom – The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Isabel Allende – Daughter of Fortune
Elizabeth Gilbert – Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia
Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner
Zadie Smith – White Teeth
Sean Wilsey – Oh the Glory of It All
20-Something Professionally Dressed Women
Kenneth D. Boa – Face to Face: Praying the Scriptures for Intimate Worship
Tom Clancy – Debt of Honor
Charles Frazier – Cold Mountain
Rachel Gibson – Not Another Bad Date
Rick Warren – The Purpose Driven Life
20-Something Casually Dressed Men
John Irving – The Fourth Hand
James Miller – Democracy Is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago
Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
20-Something Professionally Dressed Men
Stephen P. Cohen – The Idea of Pakistan
Chuck Palahniuk – Snuff
30-Something Casually Dressed Women
Chelsea Handler – Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea
Jen Lancaster – Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist’s Quest to Discover if Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, Or Why Pie is Not the Answer
Michelle Richmond – The Year of Fog
30-Something Professionally Dressed Women
William Dietrich – The Rosetta Key
Robyn Meredith – The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us
Jane Porter – Flirting with Forty
J.D. Robb – Glory in Death
30-Something Casually Dressed Men
Freddy and Michael Balle – The Gold Mine
Nick Heil – Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest’s Most Controversial Season
30-Something Professionally Dressed Men
Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins – Left Behind
John Reed – Ten Days That Shook the World
Steven Jay Schneider – Fear Without Frontiers: Horror Cinema Across the Globe
Middle-Aged Casually Dressed Women
Nathaniel Branden – How to Raise Your Self-Esteem: The Proven Action-Oriented Approach to Greater Self-Respect and Self-Confidence
Sylvia Browne – Adventures of a Psychic: A Fascinating and Inspiring True-Life Story of One of America’s Most Successful Clairvoyants
Laura Castoro – Crossing the Line
Sharon Jaynes – The Power of a Woman’s Words
James Patterson – School’s Out – Forever
John Sandford – Certain Prey
William P. Young – The Shack
Middle-Aged Professionally Dressed Women
James Lee Burke – Dixie City Jam
Jung Chang – Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Neil Gaiman – American Gods
Linda Howard – Up Close and Dangerous
Middle-Aged Casually Dressed Men
John Brady – The Good Life
Jasper Fforde – The Eyre Affair
Middle-Aged Professionally Dressed Men
David Baldacci – The Winner
W.E.B. Griffin – The Double Agents
W.E.B. Griffin – The Murderers
Cormac McCarthy – The Road
Michael Waldman – A Return to Common Sense: Seven Bold Ways to Revitalize Democracy
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.
