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

Marian Keyes – Angels

20-Something Men

Malcolm Gladwell – Outliers

Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner – SuperFreakonomics

Patrick O’Brian – Post Captain

30-Something Women

Johanna Lindsey – Heart of a Warrior

David McCullough – 1776

30-Something Men

Stephen Laws – Ferocity

Middle-Aged Women

Robin Cook – Chromosome 6

Anne Rice – Angel Time

Dani Shapiro, ed. – Best New American Voices 2010

Middle-Aged Men

Louis L’Amour – Last of the Breed

Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner – Freakonomics

Vernor Vinge – A Deepness in the Sky

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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