I really enjoyed Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code", what books are there out there that are similar?

Question

Please add a brief description free of spoilers. Thanks

Answer 1

Read Dan Brown's other works, especially "Angels and Demons." Another author I would suggest is Arturo Perez-Reverte. "The Flanders Panel" and "The Club Dumas" have the same sort of mystery puzzle style as "The Da Vinci Code." If you like that aspect of it, you might also like Katherine Neville's works such as "The Eight" or Umberto Eco's works such as "The Name of the Rose." Reviewers have taken to saying that Neville, Eco, and Brown make a trio of good reading. If you like one of those authors, you will probably like the other two. Some other books you might like are "The Dante Club" and "The Poe Shadow" by Matthew Pearl and "The Rule of Four" by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason. All of these books basically follow the same theme of a race to solve a puzzle by following scattered clues and they are all very well written.

Answer 2

Violent Sands by Sean Young

Answer 3

The Third Secret by Steve Berry

Answer 4

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler. Das Kapital by Karl Marx. The comunist revolution by Vladimir Ilich Ulianov ( Lenin )
La Historia me absolvera by Fidel Kastro.
All of them talk about a big pack of lies, written in a very convincing way to make them look like true

Answer 5

Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons" is another good one. Has a lot of Vatican history and cultural references. Lots of suspense. I read this one before "DaVinci", they are both great books.

Answer 6

You might want to try The Rule of Four
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rule_of_Four_(book)

Answer 7

"angels and demons" - same author, same main character