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

Roberto Bolano – The Savage Detectives

Lee Child – Bad Luck and Trouble

Patricia Cornwell – Body of Evidence

Nicholas Sparks – The Lucky One

20-Something Men

Beth Kobliner – Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties

Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons – Watchmen

Joe Torre and Tom Verducci – The Yankee Years

30-Something Women

John Fowles – The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Lauren Groff – The Monsters of Templeton

Curtis Sittenfeld – American Wife

30-Something Men

Cormac McCarthy – The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain

Daniel Negreanu – Power Hold’em Strategy

J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Middle-Aged Women

J.D. Robb – Strangers in Death

Middle-Aged Men

W.E.B. Griffin – The Shooters

Tami Hoag – Guilty as Sin

Robert D. Kaplan – The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia–A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy

Robert Ludlum – The Bourne Supremacy

Brad Meltzer – The Book of Fate

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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