Planes, Trains, and Lanes
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
Kamala Markandaya - Nectar in a Sieve
20-Something Women
Kate Jacobs - The Friday Night Knitting Club
Ryszard Kapuscinski - Another Day of Life
Kate Muir - Left Bank
Jodi Picoult - The Pact
20-Something Men
John Grisham - Playing for Pizza
Avinash Kaushik - Web Analytics: An Hour a Day
30-Something Women
Diane Chamberlain - The Courage Tree
Nicole Krauss - The History of Love
Stephenie Meyer - Twilight
Neal Donald Walsch - Conversations with God
30-Something Men
Armin A. Brott - The Expectant Father
Alan Watts - The Book
Middle-Aged Women
Augustin Burroughs - Sellevision
Allison Brennan - Tempting Evil
Jennifer Cody Epstein - The Painter from Shanghai
Sara Gruen - Water for Elephants
Elizabeth Kostova - The Historian
Guillermo Martinez - The Book of Murder
Harry Stein - The Magic Bullet
Rebecca Stott - Ghostwalk
Middle-Aged Men
Dale Brown - Act of War
Alan Greenspan - The Age of Turbulence
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.
