Planes, Trains, and Lanes

Our peripatetic spies spotted the following books being read by their fellow travelers this week.

  • Teenagers
  • Banana Yoshimoto – Kitchen
  • 20-Something Women
  • Thomas Friedman – The World Is Flat
  • Danielle Steel – Once In a Lifetime
  • Asne Seierstad – The Bookseller of Kabul
  • C.J. Sansom – Revolution
  • 20-Something Men
  • Stephen Lawhead – Merlin
  • 30-Something Women
  • Audrey Niffenegger – The Time Traveler’s Wife
  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon – The Angel’s Game (in Spanish)
  • Teri Woods – Dutch
  • James Patterson – I, Alex Cross
  • 30-Something Men
  • Dan Senor & Saul Singer – Start-Up Nation
  • Middle-Aged Women
  • George R. R. Martin – A Game of Thrones
  • Nicholas Evans – The Divide
  • Dani Shapiro, ed. – Best New American Voices 2010
  • Middle-Aged Men
  • Richard Russo – Bridge of Sighs
  • Pat Conroy – South of Broad
  • Dean Koontz – Lightning
  • Gavin Menzies – 1421
  • Hilary Mantel – Wolf Hall
  • Brad Thor – State of the Union
  • Sudhir Venkatesh – Gang Leader for a Day
  • Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn – Half 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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