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

Mary Balogh – Slightly Scandalous

Lisa Lutz – The Spellman Files

Jodi Picoult – My Sister’s Keeper

20-Something Men

Dan Brown – Angels and Demons

Brent Weeks – The Way of Shadows

30-Something Women

Julie Buxbaum – The Opposite of Love

Nora Roberts – Luring a Lady

30-Something Men

Bill Bryson – A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

David Pryce-Jones – The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs

Middle-Aged Women

Malcolm Gladwell – Outliers

Angela Huth – Wives of the Fishermen

Elmer Kelton – Many a River

John Le Carre – A Most Wanted Man

Middle-Aged Men

Robert B. Parker – Trouble in Paradise

Virginia Woolf – Orlando

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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