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

Lois Duncan – Down a Dark Hall

Malcolm Gladwell – Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

John Grisham – The Associate

20-Something Men

F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby

30-Something Women

Dana S. Hubbard – Every Dog Has His Day

Robert Jordan – The Shadow Rising

Marian Keyes – Rachel’s Holiday

Dean Koontz – The Husband

30-Something Men

C.E. Morgan – All the Living

Middle-Aged Women

Annie Dillard – The Maytrees

Julian Fellowes – Snobs

Budge Wilson – Before Green Gables

Middle-Aged Men

Sergei Lukayenko – The Last Watch

William J. O’Neil – How to Make Money in Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times or Bad

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

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