Tuesday, January 24, 2006

New Da Vinci Code Readalikes

The Secret Supper by Javier Sierra
A European bestseller about Da Vinci's Last Supper with a 350,000 first printing.






Receiving okay reviews and with a far smaller printing is The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury. However, the Da Vinci comparison promises some popularity.






The Last Cato by Matilde Asensi
From LJ: A secret religious brotherhood? Clues buried deep in the Vatican? No, it's not another Da Vinci Code but the first English-language publication from Spanish author Asensi-and an international best seller to boot.




The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry
A "well-tooled Da Vinci Code -knockoff" with a 120,000 first printing.






Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
From Kirkus: Dan Brown probably need not move over, but he may have to share the wealth with this well-researched tale, set in both contemporary and 13th-century France (Carcassonne), and featuring two intrepid heroines.Written by the British literary insider who co-founded the prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction, this is a quickly paced adventure that wears its considerable learning lightly—and of higher literary quality than The Da Vinci Code, to which it will inevitably be compared...Fun for most of the way—and very likely to be one of next summer’s popular vacation reads.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for this! I'm using these titles for an updated Da Vinci Code Readalike list since the movie is coming out in May!!!

MichelleB @ EGR