Dan Brown Books In Order – Complete List

Reading the Dan Brown books in order is a treat to everyone who loves religious conspiracy adventure thrillers, and let’s face it, the Da Vinci Code is pretty much the first book that comes to anyone’s mind when this genre comes up in any conversation ever, including getting involved in scholarly intellectual debates.

Here are the Dan Brown books in order for his popular Robert Langdon series and his other standalone novels.

New Dan Brown Books

Robert Langdon Books in Publication Order

1. Angels And Demons, 2000
2. The Da Vinci Code, 2003
3. The Lost Symbol, 2009
4. Inferno, 2013
5. Origin, 2017
6. The Secret of Secrets, 2025

Children’s Books

• Wild Symphony, 2020 (interactive picture book)

Standalone Novels in Publication Order

• Digital Fortress, 1998
• Deception Point, 2002

Dan Brown Biography

Dan Brown was born in 1964 in Exeter, a New England town in New Hampshire. As a child, he spent a lot of time at the Phillips Exeter Academy’s campus where he practically grew up, spending time with his dad, a mathematics professor and textbook writer who worked there, and his mom, a musician, and a singer.

After he graduated from high school, he continued his studies at Amherst College from where he graduated in 1986.

Before dedicating his time to writing thriller novels, the author Dan Brown had some interesting career in music where he created effects with a synthesizer and composed and created a children’s cassette with the title SynthAnimals.

Later on, Dan Brown created his own music record company called Dalliance and in 1990 published a CD called Perspective, which had some marginal sales. However that was not enough to feed him, so in 1991 he moved to Hollywood where he strived to become a singer, composer, and pianist while teaching classes at Beverly Hills Preparatory School.

Eventually, he realized that his dream of becoming a musician wouldn’t bear fruit, so in 1993, Dan Brown went back to New Hampshire, where he became an English teacher at the Phillips Exeter Academy.

The inspiration for his first novel came from finding on the beach and reading Sidney Sheldon’s The Doomsday Conspiracy while being on holiday in Tahiti in 1994. Then, while teaching English at Exeter, he witnessed two Secret Service agents questioning a student about an incident from the night before, where they suspected he might be a threat to national security.

While nothing happened with that student (it was just an innocent email correspondence between two friends), the fact that a simple email could be intercepted by the Secret Service just because it included a few key trigger phrases, intrigued him enough to start researching the heck out of intelligence gathering by government agencies, including the NSA. And the rest is history in the form of Digital Fortress. The book was published two years later, in 1998.

In the meantime, author Dan Brown worked with his wife Blythe on publishing two humorous novels, 187 Men to Avoid: A Survival Guide for the Romantically Frustrated Woman and The Bald Book, while at the same time working at additional novels, Angels and Demons and Digital Fortress.

It took Dan Brown to write The Da Vinci Code for the book to truly bring the author to spotlight, fame and major international publicity. I honestly don’t think there is a more controversial, more discussed novel than The Da Vinci Code. Everyone has a different opinion on it, and one can spend a whole evening at a party just defending their opinions against those of others.

While, initially, the earlier Dan Brown novels have hardly solved a few thousand copies, the major success of Da Vinci Code helped bring them that much-needed success as well. They might not be Da Vinci Code, but they’re still darn good.

The Da Vinci Code focuses on professor Robert Langdon, a Harvard symbology expert, who is called to investigate a murder mystery in France, and he teams up with Sophie Neveu to work on decoding the secret symbols that were hidden in the various Leonardo Da Vinci pieces, including his most famous Madonna painting.

Many Christian groups denounced this book to be anti-Christian, and the author was attacked by many Christians claiming that he was against the Catholic Church. Also, his work was claimed to be factually entire inaccurate with people finding lots of facts that didn’t match with those from history books.

His first Illuminati thriller, Angels and Demons, was born in the author’s mind while touring a Vatican City tunnel where the guide was talking about its history and how many historians believe that the Illuminati are still alive and active, and quite powerful behind the official forces in the government. As he mentioned in an interview, he knew he just had to write an Illuminati thriller.

The Dan Brown books have so far sold over 200 million times in numerous countries all over the world. His books The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons were made into two blockbuster movies featuring Tom Hanks, with the second one called Inferno airing in the second part of 2016.

Origin is Dan Brown’s latest novel, where Robert Langdon is asked by one of his earlier students to take part in an exclusive event that would reveal something astonishing, which could potentially change the course of the entire history. Here we have, once again, one of Dan Brown’s outrageous and wildly entertaining conspiracy theories, which is part of his entire Robert Langdon series.

When it comes to reading the Dan Brown books in order, I highly recommend it, if just to follow Robert Langdon’s adventures from story to story while he is helping this or that damsel in distress. The standalone novels can be read in any order you choose because they don’t have any connection to the rest of the stories at all.

Through his major fame, and as he is one of the highest paid writers in the world, the author Dan Brown has been constantly attacked by other less-known writers who claimed that he has stolen their book ideas. So far, the other writers would always lose their case.

These days, the author is once again under the spotlight with yet another lawsuit for plagiarism over Da Vinci Code from the New England author Jack Dunn, who lost his case in 2007 over his allegations that Dan Brown stole his ideas, scenes and even plot lines from The Vatican Boys. This time, Dunn takes the war to England to the UK High Court. If he lost his case in the US, he is hoping that the UK Courts would give him the justice he deserves (and maybe some money too…after all Dan Brown can easily afford it).

What Is the Latest Dan Brown Book?

The new Dan Brown Book is The Secret of Secrets, to be released on September 9, 2025. This is the 6th book in his most popular Robert Langdon series. This time, the story begins in Prague with Robert Langdon assisting his partner, Katherine Solomon, who is a noetic scientist whose groundbreaking work disappears during a murder. The chase makes them once again go across the globe, running from Prague, London, all the way to New York.

The new book was announced by Dan Brown in January, where in an interview he mentioned this book to be his “most intricately plotted and ambitious novel.”

Dan Brown Books Adaptations

There have been several adaptations of Dan Brown’s novels including the following:

• The Da Vinci Code – movie released in 2006 based on the author’s most popular novel that was published in 2003. The movie features Tom Hanks as Langdon, along with Audrey Tautou (Sophie Neveu), Ian McKellen, Paul Bettany.
• Angels & Demons – movie released in 2009 based on the same-titled book that was published in 2000. It once again features Tom Hanks as the main protagonist. Other characters were played by Ewan McGregor and Ayelet Zurer.
• Inferno – movie released in 2016 again with Tom Hanks as the main character, Langdon, followed by Felicity Jones and Irrfan Khan. It’s based on the novel with the same title published in 2013.
• The Lost Symbol – 2021 TV series adaptation of the novel with the same title from 2009. The series features Ashley Zukerman as a young Robert Langdon. The show was a prequel to the Da Vinci Code featuring Langdon in his early academic career. Due to low ratings, the TV show was cancelled after one season (10 episodes).

The sixth Langdon novel, The Secret of Secrets, is also up for a new Netlfix series. It is developed by Dan Brown & Carlton Cuse (who also developed Lost & Jack Ryan). With the novel not yet released, the TV show will air at the earliest in 2026.

Dan Brown Awards and Nominations Received

Over the years, Dan Brown’s books and the author himself received or was nominated for the following awards and honors:

• The Da Vinci Code received the British Book Award in Book of the Year in 2005
• The Da Vinci Code was nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2005
• The Da Vinci Code was ranked #4 by Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! (Japan’s mystery fiction guidebook) in 2005
• The Lost Symbol was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards in Favorite Book and Best Mystery & Thriller in 2009
• The Lost Symbol was nominated for the CrimeFest Sounds of Crime Award in 2010
• The Lost Symbol was nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2011
• Inferno received the Goodreads Choice Award in Best Mystery & Thriller in 2013
• Inferno was nominated for the British Book Award in International Author of the Year in 2013
• Dan Brown was awarded the Hungarian Golden Book Award (public vote) in 2015
• Origin was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award in Best Mystery & Thriller in 2017
• Origin received the Nielsen Gold Bestseller Award in 2018
• Wild Symphony was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award in Best Picture Books in 2020