The Da Vinci Code

If you liked The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, try the following books that are similar in style or story. Based in part on a list compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list.

	Ann Benson. The Burning Road In this brilliantly imagined work of fiction, the author revisits the lives of two of her characters, physicians who are separated by centuries but united in their quest to uncover medicine's deepest secrets.
	Steve Berry. The Amber Room Life is good for Atlanta judge Rachel Cutler. She loves her job and her kids, and she remains civil to her ex-husband, Paul. But everything changes when her father, a man who survived the horrors of World War II, dies under strange circumstances - and leaves behind clues to a secret he kept his entire life...a secret about something called the Amber Room.
	Steve Berry. The Templar Legacy The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes ... until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their riches lost. But now two forces vying for the treasure have learned that it is not at all what they thought it was - and its true nature could change the modern world.
	Matt Bondurant. The Third Translation Walter Rothschild is an American Egyptologist living in London and charged by the British Museum with the task of unlocking the riddle of the Stela of Paser, a centuries-old funerary stone. In the final hours of his quest, with six days left before his contract is up with the British Museum, Walter meets a young woman who expresses an interest in him and his work. That night, he invites her back to the museum; the next morning, she bids him a speedy farewell, and secretly makes off with a precious antiquity. When Walter discovers the theft, it becomes clear that outside forces have designs on his research, and his entire career - and life - is on the line.
	William Brodrick. The Sixth Lamentation Larkwood Priory, England: Father Anselm is stopped by an old man. What he is asked, should a man do when the world has turned against him? Anselm's response: claim sanctuary. But the answer sets off more trouble than he could ever have imagined - for the man returns, demanding the protection of the Church. He is Eduard Schwermann, a suspected Nazi war criminal.
	Dan Brown. Angels and Demons After the murder of a world-renowned physicist, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon learns an ancient secret society called the Illuminati, which stands for science and has opposed the Catholic church since the 1500s, is responsible. When Langdon realizes the Illuminati may attempt to defeat the church by destroying Vatican City, he and scientist Vittoria Vetra are the world's only hope.
	Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason. The Rule of Four Two Princeton University seniors are struggling to solve the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a cryptic text that has baffled scholars for 500 years. When a long-lost clue surfaces, they have a chance to decipher the final secret. But when a fellow scholar of the text is murdered for knowing too much, they realize that they know even more.
	John Case. The Genesis Code A phone call in the dead of night brings Joe Lassiter shattering news. His sister and young nephew have died in a fire in their home near Washington, D.C. Yet Lassiter soon learns a chilling fact: His loved ones were murdered before the blaze was set. Then Lassiter uncovers another crime--another innocent mother and child murdered. The more he uncovers, the larger the web of conspiracy grows, as his search for answers leads him on a dangerous international chase toward a truth that will shock him--and the world--to the very bone.
	Deborah Crombie. A Finer End and Kissed a Sad Goodbye A tale of mysteries--one old, one modern. Worker Jack Montford's office overlooks a mysterious castle and graveyard. He begins hearing cries of help from a monk who died 1,000 years ago. He appeals to Scotland Yard for help, and unleashes a fatal chain of events.
	Umberto Eco. especially The Name of the Rose and Foucalt's Pendulum In seven days of apocalyptic terror, a killer strikes seven times--and seven monks die. The year is 1327. The place is a wealthy abbey in Italy. And the crimes committed there are beyond the wildest imaginings. It will be the task of English Brother William of Baskerville to decipher secret symbols and dig into the eerie labyrinth of abbey life to solve the mystery.
	Daniel Easterman. The Brotherhood of the Tomb In 1968, in Jerusalem, a tomb is discovered that contains the bones of Jesus, his "brother'' James and their mother Mary. At the same time, at Trinity College in Dublin, young American student Patrick Canavan falls in love with Francesca Contarini, who wears a strange cross around her neck. Twenty-four years later,  Canavan, now an ex-CIA agent, teams up with an Ethiopian priest and must decipher Hebrew, Greek and Italian texts to detect the apparent reemergence of the secret Brotherhood, a 12th-century right-wing sect and figure out whether Francesca is really dead.
	Jon Fasman. The Geographer's Library This brilliant debut novel takes a young reporter from his small town paper to the heart of an international smuggling ring, centuries old, that amasses the alchemical artifacts that lead to eternal life.
	Michael Frayn. Headlong Frayn combines the wit of Calvin Trillin with the wisdom of John Updike in this hilarious novel about an unlikely con man wagers wife, wealth, and sanity in pursuit of an elusive Old Master.
	Margaret George.  Mary, Called Magdalene With bestselling author Margaret George's dazzling mix of history and creativity, "Mary, Called Magdalene" is George's most ambitious work yet. Grounded in both biblical and secular historical research, it depicts Mary of Magdala in the 100 years of the first millennium and peels away layers of legend.
	Thomas Gifford. The Assassini International thriller about a secret society of killers operating within the dark heart of the Catholic Church. Gifford spent more than five years researching this well-written, fast-paced novel involving the inner workings of the Vatican.
	Lev Grossman. The Codex About to depart on his first vacation in years, Edward Wozny, a hot-shot young banker, is sent to help one of his firm's most important and mysterious clients. When asked to uncrate and organize a personal library of rare books, Edward's indignation turns to curiosity as he realizes that among the volumes there may be hidden a unique medieval codex, a treasure kept sealed away for many years and for many reasons.
	Robert Hellenga. The Sixteen Pleasures "Mud angels" is what the Italians call the selfless young foreigners who come to Florence in 1966 to save the city's priceless art from the Arno's flooded riverbanks. Margot Harrington is an American volunteer, an expert at book conservancy. While struggling to save a waterlogged convent library, she discovers a fabulous volume of sixteen erotic drawings by Giulio Romano that accompany sixteen steamy sonnets by Pietro Aretino.
	Michael Jecks. Belladonna at Belstone 1321. Lady Elizabeth of Topsham, prioress of St. Mary¹s, is fighting to retain her position in the face of devastating opposition. She has been accused by Sister Margherita, St. Mary¹s treasurer, of giving much-needed funds to the new vicar, a man she often sees alone at night. Many of the nuns are convinced that Margherita would make a better prioress especially now that it is certain that Moll, a young nun, was murdered in her sick bed. Sir Baldwin Furnshill, Keeper of the King¹s Peace, together with his old friend Simon Puttock, are summoned to investigate.
	Julie Wallin Kaewert. Unbound England's prestigious Plumtree Press is about to release a shocking book that exposes coded messages in a famous novel--codes alleged to be printer's errors. The messages are so treacherous, that if discovered at the original time of publication, the author would have been hung for treason. Now, with someone ruthlessly trying to keep this revealing expose out of stores, Alex Plumtree must protect his star author and family's legacy before the phrase "publish or perish" becomes all too real!
	Philip Kerr. Dark Matter This dark historical thriller, set in 17th-century England, takes listeners on a journey with Sir Isaac Newton and his assistant, Christopher Ellis, as they try to solve a string of mysterious murders and prevent widespread bloodshed and anarchy.
	Raymond Khoury. The Last Templar An antiterrorist specialist and an archeologist are drawn into the dark, hidden history of the crusading Knights of Templar--a deadly game of cat and mouse with ruthless killers as they race across three continents to recover a lost secret.
	Ross King. Ex-Libris A cryptic summons to a remote country house launches a London bookseller on an odyssey through 17th-century Europe. Given the task of restoring a magnificent library that has been pillaged during the English Civil War, Isaac Inchbold finds himself slipping from the surface of 1660s London into an underworld of spies, smugglers, ciphers, and forgeries.
	Glenn Kleier. The Last Day New Year Eve, 1999: As the clock ticks toward the new millennium, the planet is suddenly rocked by a geological event of staggering proportions--followed by reports of the appearance of a woman with extraordinary supernatural powers.
	Elizabeth Kostova. The Historian In this riveting debut novel, a young girl discovers her father's darkest secret and embarks on a harrowing journey across Europe to complete the quest he never could--the quest to find history's most legendary fiend: Dracula.
	Allen Kurzweil. The Grand Complication Kurzweil returns with another work narrated by Alexander Short, a reference librarian who takes on an unusual research assignment when he feels his passions--both professional and personal--waning.
	Robert Ludlum. The Gemini Contenders Dead of night. Salonika, Greece, December 1939. A clandestine order of monks embarks on a desperate mission: to transport a mysterious vault to a hiding place high in the Italian Alps. Its sinister contents, concealed fro centuries, could rip apart the Christian world. Now, as the Nazi threat marches inexorably closer, good men and evil will be drawn into a violent and deadly hunt, sparking a relentless struggle that could forever change the world as we know it.
	Robert Ludlum. The Icarus Agenda A murderous band of terrorist fanatics has seized the American embassy in the Arab city of Musqat, but an American congressman, working undercover, succeeds in lifting the deadly siege.
	Simon Mawer. The Gospel of Judas An ambitious literary suspense novel sets history's most crucial question--the authenticity of the Gospels--against a modern day story of belief, espionage, and sexual awakening. "The Gospel of Judas" is the story of a priest brought to Jerusalem to decipher an ancient scroll--one that tells a very different story of Christ's crucifixion.
	Kate Mosse. Labyrinth In 2005, Alice Tanner discovers two skeletons and a labyrinth pattern engraved on the wall and on a ring hidden in a cave while on an archeological dig in southwest France. They trigger visions of the past and propel her into a dangerous race against those who want the mystery of the cave for themselves. In 1209 Alaïs is entrusted, by her father, with a book that is part of a sacred trilogy connected to the Holy Grail. Guardians of the trilogy are operating against evil forces.
	Katherine Neville. The Eight When two young women in France of 1790 discover the Montglane Chess Service in Montglane Abbey, they recognize its mystic ability to provide anyone playing it with unlimited power and desperately scatter its pieces around the world. But in 1972, computer expert Catherine "Cat" Velis is hired to recover the chess pieces--and is caught up in a nefarious, globe-spanning conspiracy.
	Neil Olson. The Icon Matthew Spear, a young Greek-American curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, meets the lovely Ana Kessler, a sometime art dealer who has inherited an impressive collection from her mysterious grandfather. Matthew soon discovers that the jewel of the old man's cache is none other than the Holy Mother of Katarini - a sacred icon long thought destroyed in a fire. But while Matthew recognizes the icon's value as a work of art - and a star in his crown if he can add it to the museum's collection - he soon discovers that it carries a far greater significance to numerous people, including his own grandfather and godfather.
	Orhan Pamuk. My Name is Red In Istanbul, in the 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book, but any work of art--an affront to Islam--is dangerous. "My Name is Red" is a murder mystery played amidst the perils of religious repression.
	Iain Pears. Giotto's Hand The author of the bestselling historical novel, "An Instance of the Fingerpost, " pens this intriguing mystery about an English art dealer on the trail of a criminal mastermind responsible for a series of major heists.
	Iain Pears. The Immaculate Deception For newlywed and Italian art theft squad head Flavia di Stefano, the honeymoon is over when a painting, borrowed from the Louvre and en route to a celebratory exhibition, is stolen. Desperate to avoid public embarrassment -- and to avoid paying a ransom -- the Italian prime minister leans hard on Flavia to get it back quickly and quietly. Across town, her husband, art historian Jonathan Argyll, begins an investigation of his own, tracing the past of a small Renaissance painting -- an Immaculate Conception -- owned by Flavia's mentor, retired general Taddeo Bottando. Soon both husband and wife uncover astonishing and chilling secrets, and Flavia's investigation takes a sudden turn from the search for an art thief to the hunt for a murderer.
	Lewis Perdue. Daughter of God: A Novel of Art and Faith When God Was a Woman In the present, Zoe Ridgeway, an art broker, visits Switzerland with her husband, Seth, where she expects to purchase the estate of a German art collector. But before Zoe can complete the transaction, she and Seth are drawn into a thousand-year-old web of conspiracy, murder, and intrigue that begins and ends with the mystery of Sophia -- a reputed female messiah -- and all the powerful forces who seek to protect their patriarchies from a divinely feminine truth.
	Arturo Perez-Reverte. The Flanders Panel A whodunit set in the art world. The protagonist is Julia, an art restoration expert in Madrid who is cleaning a 15th Century painting. The painting shows a duke and his knight playing chess and the story begins when, with the aid of x-rays, Julia discovers an inscription hidden in a corner, "Who killed the knight?"
	Daniel Quinn. Story of B Furthering the intellectual and environmental message first proffered in the award-winning book, Ishmael, The Story of B tells the story of Jared Osborne, a priest sent on a mission to investigate an itinerant preacher whose radical speeches are attracting a growing number of followers.
	Jonathan Rabb. The Book of Q and The Overseer Thriller about a conflicted priest and his race to prevent a secret brotherhood from destroying the Catholic Church.
	Javier Sierra. The Secret Supper In 1497 a Dominican inquisitor is sent to Milan to supervise the final phase of the painting of The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. Never a conformist, da Vinci creates a masterpiece that raises questions that have yet to be answered. Unlike his contemporaries, he does not hold strictly to the religious doctrine of the scriptures, but adds touches advocated by a repressed heritical sect. Could da Vinci be a member of the secret society?
	Daniel Silva. The Confessor As writer Benjamin Stern enters his Munich flat, he is shot dead. In Venice, art restorer Gabriel Allon is told of Stern's death. At the Vatican, a priest named Pietro thinks about the journey before him, in which men will surely die. In the weeks to come, the lives of these three men will intersect on a trail of long-buried secrets and unthinkable deeds.
	Neal Stephenson. Cryptonomicon An American computer hacker operating in Southeast Asia attempts to break a World War II cypher to find the location of a missing shipment of gold. The gold was stolen by the Japanese during the war. By the author of The Diamond Age.
	Alan Wall. The School of Night Sean Tallow has only two overriding desires in life. One is to step into the shoes of his glamorous friend Daniel Pagett, and the other is to establish the truth about the School of Night, a shadowy group of Elizabethans who clustered around Sir Walter Ralegh.
	Peter Watson. Landscape of Lies Isobel Sadler is dead broke, and the only thing left that might bring in any money is a stupendously bad painting that’s been in her family for generations It’s so ugly she can’t imagine it would be worth much . . . until someone tries to steal it. Mystified, she turns for advice to art dealer Michael Whiting, who identifies the painting as a 16th-century treasure map, pointing the way to a cache of priceless religious artifacts that were hidden by monks when Henry VIII was dissolving the monasteries. If he and Isobel can decipher the clues in the painting, Whiting reasons, her money troubles will be history.
	Morris West. The Clowns of God Pope Gregory XVII claims to have received a private revelation of the end of the world--an apocalypse coming not in some distant future but at any moment. Is he a madman--as his cardinals suspect--a mystic, or a fanatic grasping for an unholy power?
	Barbara Wood. The Prophetess In December 1999, Catherine Alexander discovers six ancient papyrus scrolls that reveal a hidden history of the world and its religions, but a seventh scroll, containing unimaginable power, is missing and Catherine must dodge government agents, Vatican operatives, and more to locate it.