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
Elie Wiesel – Night
20-Something Casually Dressed Women
Giles Bolton – Africa Doesn’t Matter: How the West Has Failed the Poorest Continent and What We Can Do About It
Emily Giffin – Baby Proof
Stephenie Meyer – Breaking Dawn
Ann Packer – The Dive from Clausen’s Pier
20-Something Professionally Dressed Women
Emily Giffin – Love the One You’re With
J.L. King – Love on a Two-Way Street
Jodi Picoult – My Sister’s Keeper
Lisa See – Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
20-Something Casually Dressed Men
Augusten Burroughs – Magical Thinking: True Stories
20-Something Professionally Dressed Men
Mark Bowden – Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw
Chuck Klosterman – Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
30-Something Casually Dressed Women
Dean Koontz – Dark Rivers of the Heart
Lauren Weisberger – Chasing Harry Winston
30-Something Professionally Dressed Women
Ann Brashares – The Last Summer (of You and Me)
Candace Bushnell – 4 Blondes
Claire and Mia Fontaine – Come Back: A Mother and Daughter’s Journey Through Hell and Back
30-Something Casually Dressed Men
Douglas Adams – The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul
Stephenie Meyer – Twilight
30-Something Professionally Dressed Men
Ted Conover – Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
John Grisham – Playing for Pizza
Gina Kolata – Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic
Hunter S. Thompson – Better Than Sex
Middle-Aged Casually Dressed Women
Rhonda Byrne – The Secret
Stephen Colbert – I Am America (and So Can You!)
Phillip Margolin – After Dark
Joyce Carol Oates – My Sister, My Love
Nora Roberts – The Hollow
Danielle Steel – Coming Out
Middle-Aged Professionally Dressed Women
Patrick Astre – The Last Operation
Debbie Ford – Spiritual Divorce: Divorce as a Catalyst for an Extraordinary Life
Paula Quinn – A Highlander Never Surrenders
Ayn Rand – Atlas Shrugged
David Wroblewski – The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Middle-Aged Casually Dressed Men
Lee Child – Nothing to Lose
Ken Follett – World Without End
Middle-Aged Professionally Dressed Men
Lawrence Block – Hit and Run
Christopher Reich – The Devil’s Banker
Elderly Women
Patricia Cornwell – Cruel and Unusual
Nora Roberts – Tribute
Elderly Men
James Morrow – The Philosopher’s Apprentice
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.
