Where to Start with Dan Brown
- Best entry point → Angels & Demons
- Best standalone → Deception Point
- What fans keep coming back to → The Da Vinci Code
- Highest rated by listeners → Origin (Robert Langdon #5)
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Origin
Robert Langdon • Book 5
by Dan Brown
Narrated by Paul Michael
★ 4.38 ABR Score (419.7K ratings)★ 3.9 Goodreads (370.1K) ★ 4.39 Audible (49.6K)More about this pick
Robert Langdon races through Bilbao and Barcelona as a tech billionaire's scientific discovery threatens to upend religious orthodoxy worldwide. Brown weaves art history, technology, and religious controversy into his signature breakneck thriller formula.
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Inferno
Robert Langdon • Book 4
by Dan Brown
Narrated by Paul Michael
★ 4.30 ABR Score (625.7K ratings)★ 3.9 Goodreads (599.1K) ★ 4.29 Audible (26.5K)More about this pick
Langdon awakens in Florence with amnesia, pursued by mysterious forces while following clues from Dante's Inferno to prevent a global catastrophe.
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Angels & Demons
Robert Langdon Series • Book 1
by Dan Brown
Narrated by Richard Poe
★ 4.46 ABR Score (3.4M ratings)★ 3.96 Goodreads (3.4M) ★ 4.45 Audible (16.9K)More about this pick
Antimatter stolen from CERN threatens to destroy Vatican City while an ancient secret society resurfaces. Richard Poe keeps the breakneck pace as Langdon races through Rome's hidden passages and symbols.
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The Da Vinci Code
Robert Langdon Series • Book 2
by Dan Brown
Narrated by Paul Michael
★ 4.44 ABR Score (2.6M ratings)★ 3.94 Goodreads (2.5M) ★ 4.47 Audible (13.4K)More about this pick
A murdered Louvre curator leaves cryptic clues pointing to a religious conspiracy that could shake Christianity's foundations. Paul Michael maintains breakneck pacing through Paris's hidden symbols and ancient secrets.
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The Lost Symbol
Robert Langdon • Book 3
by Dan Brown
Narrated by Paul Michael
★ 3.98 ABR Score (681.8K ratings)★ 3.77 Goodreads (661.2K) ★ 4.19 Audible (20.6K)More about this pick
Robert Langdon races through Washington D.C.'s Masonic mysteries after his mentor's severed hand appears in the Capitol Rotunda, launching another symbol-decoding thriller.
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The Secret of Secrets
Robert Langdon Series • Book 6
by Dan Brown
Narrated by Paul Michael
★ 4.34 ABR Score (150.3K ratings)★ 3.94 Goodreads (140.2K) ★ 4.45 Audible (10.0K)More about this pick
Langdon races through Prague to rescue Katherine Solomon from kidnappers in Brown's return to the symbologist's globe-trotting adventures filled with historical puzzles and ancient mysteries.
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Deception Point
by Dan Brown
Narrated by Richard Poe
★ 4.25 ABR Score (11.5K ratings)★ 4.28 Audible (11.5K) - 8
Digital Fortress
by Dan Brown
Narrated by Paul Michael
★ 4.10 ABR Score (674.0K ratings)★ 3.71 Goodreads (668.2K) ★ 4.21 Audible (5.7K)More about this pick
NSA cryptographer Susan Fletcher faces an unbreakable code that threatens to expose every government secret, racing against time as enemies close in from multiple directions.
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