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
Christopher Hitchens – Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man: A Biography
Khaled Hosseini – A Thousand Splendid Suns
20-Something Casually Dressed Women
John Fante – Wait Until Spring, Bandini
Elizabeth Gilbert – Eat, Pray, Love
Robert Ludlum – The Bourne Identity
Julie Powell – Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
Lauren Weisberger – Chasing Harry Winston
Teri Woods – True to the Game
20-Something Professionally Dressed Women
Meg Cabot – Queen of Babble Gets Hitched
Ivan Doig – The Whistling Season
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
Beth Harbison – Shoe Addicts Anonymous
Hill Harper – Letters to a Young Sister: DeFINE Your Destiny
Jeff Lindsey – Dearly Devoted Dexter
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
Walter Mosley – Bad Boy Brawly Brown
Andrew O’Hagan – Be Near Me
Julie Powell – Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
20-Something Casually Dressed Men
Chuck Palahniuk – Lullaby
20-Something Professionally Dressed Men
Thomas L. Friedman – From Beirut to Jerusalem
30-Something Casually Dressed Women
Eric Jerome Dickey – Sleeping with Strangers
Chuck Klosterman – Downtown Owl
30-Something Professionally Dressed Women
Andrew Sean Greer – The Story of a Marriage
Richard Russo – Straight Man
30-Something Casually Dressed Men
David Eddings – The Elders Gods
Stephen King – It
Matt Ridley – Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Jose Saramago – Blindness
30-Something Professionally Dressed Men
Mark J. Blechner – The Dream Frontier
Roger Lowenstein – When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
Middle-Aged Casually Dressed Women
Richard Carlson – Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff–and it’s all small stuff
Martina Cole – Faces
Jeffery Deaver – The Sleeping Doll
Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner (times 2)
Stephanie Laurens – A Secret Love
Gregory Maguire – Wicked
Ruth Rendell – The Lake of Darkness
Tracey Richardson – The Candidate
Middle-Aged Professionally Dressed Women
Andre Dubus III – The Garden of Last Days
Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary (in French)
Gaelen Foley – Lady of Desire
Beth Harbison – Shoe Addicts Anonymous
Virgil – The Aeneid
Middle-Aged Casually Dressed Men
Michael DiMercurio – Emergency Deep
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child – Mount Dragon
Middle-Aged Professionally Dressed Men
Joe Simpson – Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man’s Miraculous Survival
William Linz Wolcott & Trish Fahey – The Metabolic Typing Diet: Customize Your Diet to Your Own Unique Body Chemistry
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.
