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 Christensen – The Great Man

Ken Follett – Pillars of the Earth

Malcolm Gladwell – The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Monica McInerney – Family Baggage

20-Something Men

Artie Lange – Too Fat to Fish

Jay McInerney – Bright Lights, Big City

30-Something Women

Ken Follett – Night Over Water

Sergei Lukyanenko – The Last Watch

Marilynne Robinson – Housekeeping

Curtis Sittenfeld – Prep

30-Something Men

Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita

Middle-Aged Women

Isabel Allende – City of the Beasts (in Spanish)

Paulo Coelho – The Alchemist

Thomas Dumm – Loneliness as a Way of Life

Middle-Aged Men

Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul – Plague Ship

William Hogeland – Inventing American History

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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