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.









