Now that it’s summer and I have fewer textbooks to read, I’m looking for some fun reading. I loved all the Dan Brown books (eg. DaVinci Code) because they were highly entertaining but at the same time somewhat intelligent (I’m a science geek!). Any suggestions for similar books that I could read? Thanks!
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: For a medival angle, perhaps something from Umberto Eco, such as Foucault’s Pendulum or The Name of the Rose). For a sophisticated mystery, maybe something from John Le Carre or one of the spy novels of Graham Greene.
You might want to go to the database NoveList. You can get to it from the Articles and Databases interface at the library’s website. If you look up a book, you can click the link “Find Similar Books.” This gives you a list of topics related to the book you looked up (for The Da Vinci Code it includes “women crytographers” and “Holy Grail”) that you can click as Required or Preferred (or not at all), publication date, length, and so forth. Since this is a bit cumbersome and some books have very few subjects, it might help to just look at the reviews availble from NoveList, Literature Resource Center, or one of our other fine databases.