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

Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Jodi Picoult – My Sister’s Keeper (in Spanish)

20-Something Men

Charles Dickens – David Copperfield

J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

30-Something Women

Michael Lewis – Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street

Megan McKinney – Till Dawn Tames the Night

30-Something Men

Patrick McGrath – Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now

James Patterson & Maxine Paetro – 4th of July

George Soros – The Crash of 2008 and What It Means: The New Paradigm for Financial Markets

Middle-Aged Women

Heather Barbieri – The Lace Makers of Glenmara

Doug Stanton – Horse Soldiers

Middle-Aged Men

Terry Brooks – Armageddon’s Children

Larry Brown – The Rabbit Factory

Sebastian Junger – The Perfect Storm

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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