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

Philip Delves Broughton – Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School

Charles C. Mann – 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child – Riptide

20-Something Men

Joe Torre and Tom Verducci – The Yankee Years

30-Something Women

Jodi Picoult – My Sister’s Keeper

30-Something Men

Ramachandra Guha – India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy

Middle-Aged Women

Mitch Albom – Have a Little Faith

Cynthia Freeman – Fairytales

John Grisham – The Associate

Middle-Aged Men

Harlan Coben – Fade Away

Bernard Cornwell – Lords of the North

William P. Young – The Shack

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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