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?
20-Something Women
Thomas L. Friedman – From Beirut to Jerusalem
Emily Giffin – Something Borrowed
Alice Hoffman – The Third Angel
Elizabeth R. Varon – Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy
David Wroblewski – The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
20-Something Men
Milan Kundera – The Unbearable Lightness of Being
30-Something Women
Isabel Fonseca – Attachment
Jane Green – The Beach House
Jhumpa Lahiri – Unaccustomed Earth
Jodi Picoult – Change of Heart
30-Something Men
Dean Koontz – Odd Thomas
Tucker Max – I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
Stuart Woods – Hot Mahogany
Middle-Aged Women
Lisa Hilton – Athenais: The Life of Louis XIV’s Mistress, the Real Queen of France
Francine Prose – Goldengrove
Middle-Aged Men
Julian Barnes – Nothing to Be Frightened Of
Tracey Dils – You Can Write Children’s Books
David Kaiser – American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War
Scott Lynch – Red Seas Under Red Skies
Elderly Women
Jonathan Kellerman – Compulsion
Elderly Men
Jonathan Kellerman – Therapy
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
