Planes, Trains, and Lanes
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
Steven D. Leavitt & Stephen J. Dubner – Freakonomics
Julie Powell – Julie & Julia
Neil Simon – Come Blow Your Horn
20-Something Men
David Baldacci – Stone Cold
Dan Brown – Angels and Demons
Jeff Pearlman – The Bad Guys Won!
30-Something Women
Jeffery Deaver – The Bone Collector
30-Something Men
Christopher Hitchens – God is Not Great
Barack Obama – The Audacity of Hope
Middle-Aged Women
Aravind Adiga – The White Tiger
Michael Gruber – The Book of Air and Shadows
Danielle Steel – Amazing Grace
Middle-Aged Men
Herbert Asbury – The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
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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Thoroughly enjoyed your listing of planes, trains and lanes. Once a week I take care of some very old people and was most amused to see one of them reading ‘Exit Lines’ by Joan Barfoot.
I will watch this list with great interest. Overall I find this website to be up to date and very informative.I enjoy not only this particular list but also the ‘under the radar list’; books that I do not see listed elswhere.