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
Kim Edwards – The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Elizabeth Gilbert – Eat, Pray, Love
Philippa Gregory – The Other Boleyn Girl
Stephenie Meyer – Twilight (x2)
Eric Schlosser – Fast Food Nation
20-Something Men
Mark Bowden – Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America’s War with Militant Islam
Jeff Pearlman – Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty
30-Something Women
Elizabeth Gilbert – Eat, Pray, Love
30-Something Men
Vince Flynn – Extreme Measures
Roger Lowenstein – When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
Brad Meltzer – The Book of Lies
Middle-Aged Women
David Baldacci – Simple Genius
Paulo Coelho – Eleven Minutes
Judith McNaught – Double Standards
Curtis Sittenfeld – American Wife
Middle-Aged Men
Malcolm Gladwell – Outliers: The Story of Success
Raymond Khoury – The Sanctuary
Patrick Morley – The Man in the Mirror: Solving the 24 Problems Men Face
Walter Mosley – Fortunate Son
Evan Thomas – The Very Best Men: The Daring Early Years of the CIA
Joseph Wambaugh – Hollywood Crows
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
