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

Kate Jacobs – Comfort Food

Lynne Truss – Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

20-Something Men

Paulo Coelho – The Alchemist

Chuck Klosterman – Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

David Sedaris – When You Are Engulfed in Flames

J.R.R. Tolkien – The Two Towers

30-Something Women

Kristin Hannah – Firefly Lane

30-Something Men

David Baldacci – The Whole Truth

John Grisham – The Associate

David McCullough – The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914

Middle-Aged Women

Rick Warren – The Purpose Driven Life

Middle-Aged Men

Andrew Britton – The American

Dale Brown – Strike Force

A.J. Jacobs – The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

Joseph O’Neill – Netherland

Joel Osteen – Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day

James Patterson and Andrew Gross – Third Degree

Nassim Nicholas Taleb – The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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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