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
Stephenie Meyer – Breaking Dawn (x2)
Alice Sebold – The Lovely Bones
20-Something Casually Dressed Women
Emily Giffin – Baby Proof
Linda Howard – To Die For
Jay McInerney – Bright Lights, Big City
Kira Salak – The White Mary
Jennifer Traig – Well Enough Alone
Susan Warhus – Countdown to Baby: Answers to the 100 Most Asked Questions About Pregnancy and Childbirth
Lauren Weisberger – Chasing Harry Winston
20-Something Professionally Dressed Women
Jessica Brody – The Fidelity Files
Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
Richard North Patterson – Exile
Sylvia Plath – The Bell Jar
20-Something Casually Dressed Men
Roberto Bolano – The Savage Detectives
20-Something Professionally Dressed Men
Benjamin Graham – The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing
Peter Hessler – Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China
Robert T. Kiyosaki & Sharon L. Lechter – Rich Dad, Poor Dad
James Rollins – Subterranean
30-Something Casually Dressed Women
Michael Connolly – The Overlook
Janet Evanovich – Two for the Dough
Osho – Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other
30-Something Professionally Dressed Women
Philippa Gregory – The Boleyn Inheritance
Marcus Luttrell & Patrick Robinson – Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Deepak Malhotra & Max Bazerman – Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond
Rosamunde Pilcher – Coming Home
30-Something Casually Dressed Men
Edward Jay Epstein – The Big Picture: Money and Power in Hollywood
Malcolm Gladwell – Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Gary Stevens & Bill Shoemaker – The Perfect Ride
Teri Woods – Dutch
30-Something Professionally Dressed Men
Stephen Coonts – Deep Black: Conspiracy
Ken Follett – Pillars of the Earth
William W. Johnstone – Slaughter in the Ashes
Jason Kelly – The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing
Robert M. Pirsig – Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
Barbara W. Tuchman – The Guns of August
Middle-Aged Casually Dressed Women
Sara Gruen – Water for Elephants
Iris Johansen – And Then You Die
Middle-Aged Professionally Dressed Women
Donna Brazile – Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in America
Middle-Aged Casually Dressed Men
Peniel E. Joseph – Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child – Reliquary
Middle-Aged Professionally Dressed Men
David Baldacci – Total Control
Ken Follett – The Pillars of the Earth
Nick Hornby – How to Be Good
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.
