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

  • Caprice Crane – Stupid and Contagious
  • Ceanne DeRohan – Feelings Matter: Keys to the Unexplored Self
  • Edith Wharton – House of Mirth
  • 20-Something Men

  • Steve Berry – The Templar Legacy
  • Dan Brown – The Lost Symbol
  • 30-Something Women

  • Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin – Three Cups of Tea
  • Haruki Murakami – The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
  • 30-Something Men

  • Edward Abbey – The Journey Home
  • Middle-Aged Women

  • Janet Dailey – Santa in a Stetson
  • Jerry & Esther Hicks – Ask and It is Given
  • Brandon Massey – Cornered
  • Al Ries & Jack Trout – Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
  • Middle-Aged Men

  • John Grogan – The Longest Trip Home
  • Mark Harris – Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of New Hollywood
  • Alice Sebold – The Lovely Bones

  • 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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