Dan Brown Books in Order
Dan Brown has written 11 books, published between 1995 and 2025. The first book is 187 Men to Avoid (1995) and the newest is The Secret of Secrets (2025). Publication order is the reading order below. 6 of the 11 books listed here are in the Robert Langdon series, which has its own page: Robert Langdon books in order.
- Books
- 11
- Published
- 1995–2025
- Confirmed
- 11 of 11 titles
- Pages on record
- 3,347 in 8 of 11 books
- Reading time
- 56–84 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,347 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 8 of 11 titles with a page count on record.
Dan Brown, born June 22, 1964, is an American thriller writer. Brown is best known for the Robert Langdon thrillers: Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, Inferno, Origin and, most recently, The Secret of Secrets (2025). Brown's novels are structured as treasure hunts, usually compressed into 24 hours, and turn on cryptography, art and conspiracy theories. The catalogue holds 11 titles from 1995 to 2025, opening with 187 Men to Avoid (1995) and including Digital Fortress (1998), Deception Point (2001) and Wild Symphony (2020). Translations cover 57 languages.
The Robert Langdon series includes The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, thrillers that combine history and religion with cryptographic puzzles.
How many Dan Brown books are there?
Dan Brown has 11 books, released between 1995 and 2025. They include 2 separate series.
Dan Brown Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 11 Dan Brown books in the order they were released, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 11995964/4
- 219985114/4
- 320007134/4
- 420015594/4
- 520034544/4
- 62006–3/4
- 720095094/4
- 82013–4/4
- 920174614/4
- 102020444/4
- 112025–3/4
Dan Brown series in order
The series linked below has its own reading-order page.
- Robert Langdon books in order 6 books
Dan Brown books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Dan Brown Standalone Novels
3 books3 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Dan Brown Non-Fiction
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Dan Brown Picture in order
1 bookDan Brown Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the Dan Brown books run from 187 Men to Avoid (1995) to The Secret of Secrets (2025), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Dan Brown in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.
Do you have to read Dan Brown books in order?
You only need to read Dan Brown books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
What order should you read Dan Brown books in?
Read them in publication order, starting with Angels & Demons (2000), the first Robert Langdon book. The earliest catalogued title overall is 187 Men to Avoid (1995).
What is the first Dan Brown book?
187 Men to Avoid (1995) is the first Dan Brown book, and the numbered table above starts with it.
What is the newest Dan Brown book?
The Secret of Secrets (2025) is the newest Dan Brown book released so far.
Is there a new Dan Brown book coming?
No next Dan Brown book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Awards Dan Brown has won
Wikidata records 2 awards for Dan Brown. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Humo's Gouden Bladwijzer2005Won
- Crimezone Thriller Awards2004Won
Dan Brown at a glance
- Still publishing
- Dan Brown published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Dan Brown books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 3,347 pages across the 8 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 485 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Dan Brown books, 5 of 11, were published in the 2000s.
- Corroboration
- 9 of the 11 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.
What the Dan Brown books are about
9 of the 11 Dan Brown books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: cryptographers is tagged on 3 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Cryptographers 3 of 9 books
- Langdon, robert (fictitious character) 2 of 9 books
- Suspense & Thriller 2 of 9 books