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
Dante Alighieri – The Inferno
Linda Fairstein – Death Dance
Barry Glassner – The Gospel of Food: Why We Should Stop Worrying and Enjoy What We Eat
Robert T. Kiyosaki and Sharon L. Lechter – Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Kenize Mourad – Regards from the Dead Princess (in French)
20-Something Men
David Baldacci – Last Man Standing
Armin A. Brott – The Expectant Father
30-Something Women
Kim Edwards – The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Janet Fitch – White Oleander
Cecily von Ziegesar – All I Want Is Everything
30-Something Men
Lucinda Bassett – From Panic to Power
Peter Matthiessen – In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
Ian W. Toll – Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy
Middle-Aged Women
Mary Higgins Clark – No Place Like Home
Linda Lael Miller – The Rustler
Terry Pratchett – Going Postal
Middle-Aged Men
Dale Carnegie – How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Jeffery Deaver – The Broken Window
David Eddings – The Elenium
Stephen Frey – Forced Out
Sally Jenkins – The Real All Americans
Ben Mezrich – Bringing Down the House
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
