Read and Read Alike!

Do you have a favorite author? How about a favorite book? But what if you've read everything your favorite author has written? What do you do when you've read a great book and want to find more like it?

Fret no more! Each week we'll feature a new author or title to help you through the draught.

THIS WEEK: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

It was an international bestseller and a hit motion picture. Do you want more? Well we got more!

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

Deception Point by Dan Brown

The Genesis Code by John Case (mythological, religious aspect)

Deborah Crombie mysteries, especially A Finer End (similar content) and her Kissed a Sad Goodbye (history mixed with mystery)

Clive Cussler (action element)

Nelson DeMille (action element)

Umberto Eco, especially The Name of the Rose (murder in medieval abbey) and Foucalt's Pendulaum (Templar history)

Headlong by Michael Frayn (good art mystery)

The Assassini by Thomas Gifford (well-written thriller about an ancient and deadly secret society, its roots deep in Church history, which takes murderous action...)

The Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga (no mystery, but quest within the art/museum/library/convent world of Florence)

Michael Jecks (mystery series featuring Sir Baldwin, a Knight Templar)

Untitled: A Booklover's Mystery by Julie Wallin Kaewert (lighter tone...aspect of different slant on a significant historical event that affects prominent people). This book is part of Booklover's Mystery series.

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (the feminine divine aspect)

The Last Day by Glenn Kleier (feminine divine, Catholic Church)

The Icarus Agenda by Robert Ludlum (adventure aspect)

The Eight by Katherine Neville (historical quest, Freemasons, solving chess riddles)

Iain Pears (well-researched art history mysteries and thrillers)

Daughter of God: A Novel of Art and Faith When God Was a Woman by Lewis Perdue (actually sued Dan Brown for plagiarism!)

Daniel Quinn, Story of B, and many of his other books

Jonathan Rabb, The Book of Q, and The Overseer (religious conspiracy aspect)

The Confessor by Daniel Silva (secret society within Catholic Church)

The Prophetess by Barbara Wood (feminine divine, suppression by Catholic Church

(Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list at the Morton Grove Public Library's Webrary)