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
Joseph Heller – Catch-22

20-Something Casually Dressed Women
Edward Abbey – Hayduke Lives!
Mary Balogh – The Ideal Wife
Philippa Gregory – The Other Boleyn Girl
Mary B. Morrison – Sweeter Than Honey
Karen Robards – Walking After Midnight
L.J. Smith – The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening and the Struggle
Zane – Blackgentlemen.com

20-Something Professionally Dressed Women
Jane Austen – Emma
Kim Barnouin & Rory Freedman – Skinny Bitch
T. Harve Eker – Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth (in Spanish)
Nancy Horan & Joyce Bean – Loving Frank
Ayn Rand – The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand – We the Living
Dalia Sofer – The Septembers of Shiraz
Stephen Strohmeyer – Sweet Love

20-Something Casually Dressed Men
David Morrell – Scavenger

20-Something Professionally Dressed Men
Janet & Chris Attwood – The Passion Test: The Effortless Path to Discovering Your Destiny
Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises
Khaled Hosseini – A Thousand Splendid Suns

30-Something Casually Dressed Women
Bridgett M. Davis – Shifting Through Neutral
Summer Hill Seven – Hang Time!: A Poetic Memoir

30-Something Professionally Dressed Women
Suzanne Enoch – After the Kiss: The Notorious Gentlemen
Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner

30-Something Casually Dressed Men
Dean Koontz – Hideaway

30-Something Professionally Dressed Men
Tom Brohamer – Modern Pace Handicapping
Stephen Colbert – I Am America (And So Can You!)
Pat Conroy – The Prince of Tides
Studs Terkel – Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do

Middle-Aged Casually Dressed Women
Dan Bortolotti – Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders
Elizabeth George – Careless in Red
Michael Gruber – The Book of Air and Shadows

Middle-Aged Professionally Dressed Women
Michael Connelly – Void Moon
Joan Johnston – Colter’s Wife
George Orwell – 1984

Middle-Aged Casually Dressed Men
David Baldacci – Total Control
Dale Brown – Plan of Attack

Middle-Aged Professionally Dressed Men
B.H. Liddell Hart – Strategy
Frances Cole Jones – How to Wow: Proven Strategies for Presenting Your Ideas, Persuading Your Audience, and Perfecting Your Image

Elderly Women
Deirdre Purcell – Roses After Rain

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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