Dan Brown Read Alikes
Brown first learned of the mysteries hidden in Da Vinci's paintings while studying art history as a student. Years later, he encountered them again while researching in the Vatican Archives. These mysteries and the art's surprising anomalies helped to develop a fantastic idea for a story resulting in the wildly popular Da Vinci Code.
If you enjoy his books, you may also like the books and authors listed below.
- The Templar Legacy
- by Steve Berry
- Former secret agent Cotton Malone and Stephanie Nelle, a U.S. Justice Department prosecutor, must solve the mystery of fourteenth-century Templar riches and the ancient conspiracy surrounding the Knights Templar before fanatic Raymond de Roquefort and his murderous allies succeed.
- Ghost Dancer
- by John Case
- An ex-convict, driven by his obsession with a Native American visionary, and guided by the secret notebooks of Nikola Tesla, dreams of the Apocalypse--and plans to make it happen.
- Next
- by Michael Crichton
- Next blends fact and fiction into a tale of a new world where gene manipulation is used for everything from advertising to the creation of new species. Next challenges our sense of reality and notions of morality.
- Mary, Called Magdalene
- by Margaret George
- This story draws on the Bible and secular historical research to present a fictional portrait of Mary of Magdalene as she becomes part of Jesus' circle of disciples and comes into a realization of her faith.
- The First Sacrifice
- by Thomas Gifford
- John Cooper returns to Berlin in the 1990s to search for his niece who could be the victim of a kidnapping--or entangled in neo-Nazi activities. Lost in a labyrinth of half-truths and veiled warnings, Cooper discovers a new conspiracy exists in Germany and the stakes are higher than ever before.
- The Historian
- by Elizabeth Kostova
- Discovering a medieval book and a cache of letters, a motherless American girl becomes the latest in a series of historians, including her late father, who investigate the possible surviving legacy of Vlad the Impaler.
- Labyrinth
- by Kate Mosse
- Rich in the atmospheres of medieval and contemporary France, the lives of two women born centuries apart are linked by a common destiny. Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, becomes a target after discovering a pair of crumbling skeletons in the Pyrenees mountains, while eight hundred years in the past, Alais, the daughter of a crusader, must safeguard the location of the Holy Grail.
- The Fire
- by Katherine Neville
- A quest for a mystical chess service that once belonged to Charlemagne continues in this sequel to The Eight. Summoned to her family's Colorado hideaway for her mother's birthday, Alexandra Solarin not only discovers that her mother is missing but that the most powerful piece of the mystical chess service that had once belonged to Charlemagne has resurfaced.
- The Confessor
- by Daniel Silva
- In the wake of Munich writer Benjamin Stern's assassination, Mossad agent Gabriel Allon and Vatican priest Pietro embark on dangerous journeys that will eventually bring them together to reveal long-buried secrets affecting the fates of millions of people.
- The Blessing Stone
- by Barbara Wood
- This story follows the journey of a blue crystal that fell to the Earth and travelled throughout human history in the hands of several owners, from a young girl who first discovers it on the African plain, to its bearers in nineteenth-century America.