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FROM: "Lynn S. Smith-Roberts" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/27/04, 9:24 PM

We have been having a run on the Da Vinci Code, as I'm sure you all have.
We have 342 on the waiting list right now, for about the third time it's
gone that high. Our YA librarian sent us reference/RA types an e-mail of
readlikes for The DaVinci Code, created by YALSA. I thought this group
might also find it of interest. Although it was created for teens, it has
lots of adult books on it. (It might also be added to that list someone was
creating about adult books for teens...)

Anyway, here it is:

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From: [removed]@ala.org on behalf of [removed]@lawrenceville.org
Sent: Tue 1/27/2004 7:55 AM
To: [removed]@ala.org
Cc:
Subject: [YALSA-BK:19149] Da Vinci Code alikes and other Thrillers

Thank you everyone for the suggested titles! I've added some of my own from
some research on Amazon and the local public library. Most, if not all, are
adult titles, so may not be appropriate for younger teens. My library
serves a 9-12th grade boarding school with post graduates, so I was
primarily looking for books that would appeal to older teens. I've separated
the historical thrillers from the more general suspense novels, in case your
reader is specifically looking for a historical twist similar to The Da
Vinci Code.

Two titles that I have recently read and would like to recommend are Neil
Gaiman's Neverwhere and Dennis Lehane's Shutter Island. Neverwhere is
gruesome like his Sandman series, but it has been popular with my graphic
novel crowd and the boys. (Gaiman and Terry Pratchett have hooked up
together and their book, Good Omens, is getting some buzz from the teens). I
loved Mystic River and so tried Shutter Island, which I thought had one of
the best twists I've ever read. I also adore Elizabeth Peters and had
forgotten about her Vicky Bliss series, so I'll be doing some ordering. With
a winter storm coming, I checked out The Eight and plan to curl up in front
of a fire. Happy reading!

Paula Clancy
The Lawrenceville School
Lawrenceville, New Jersey

Historical thrillers

Katherine Neville- The Eight & The Magic Circle
Iain Pears- The Raphael Affair, An Instance of the Fingerpost, The
Immaculate Deception
Lewis Perdue- The Da Vinci Legacy
A.S. Byatt- Possession; A Romance
Umberto Eco- The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum
Ken Follet- Eye of the Needle and Man from St. Petersburg
Richard Harris- Pompeii, Archangel, Fatherland
Laurie King- A Letter of Mary (Sherlock Holmes series)
Ann Benson- The Plague Tales, The Burning Road
Elizabeth Peters- Vicky Bliss series
Arturo Perez-Reverte- The Club Dumas, The Flanders Panel, & others
Ross King- Ex Libris
Michael Crichton- Timeline (Recent movie)
David Ball- Ironfire: A novel of the Knights of Malta and the Last Battle of
the Crusades

Thrillers/Suspense

Sidney Sheldon- If Tomorrow Comes & others
John Gilstrap- Nathan’s Run
Robert Crais- Hostage
Mary Willis Walker- Under the Beetle’s Cellar
Lincoln Child- Utopia
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child- The Relic, Thunderhead, & others
Douglas Preston- The Codex (New title)
Carol O'Connell- Judas Child
Dean Koontz- Watchers, From the Corner of his Eye
Neil Gaiman- Neverwhere
Dennis Lehane- Shutter Island, Mystic River
John Dunning- Cliff Janeway series
Raymond Chandler- The Big Sleep, Farewell my Lovely (classics)

Lynn S. Smith-Roberts
Librarian II

Carmichael Regional Library
Sacramento Public Library

[removed]@saclibrary.org
[removed]@hotmail.com

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FROM: "Lesley K" <[removed]@rpl.lib.ar.us>
REC'D: 1/28/04, 7:45 PM

If you're interested in adding graphic novels to the list, the first trade
paperback compilation of the comic miniseries REX MUNDI by Arvid Nelson is
due to be published by Image in the beginning of February. The storyline
is very reminiscent of DAVINCI CODE, with the very same plot "hook" and
many of the same clues, but (imho) much better done.

For more information: http://www.shrunkenheadstudios.com/rexmundi/index2.html

At 03:19 AM 1/28/04 +0000, you wrote:
>We have been having a run on the Da Vinci Code, as I'm sure you all have.
>We have 342 on the waiting list right now, for about the third time it's
>gone that high. Our YA librarian sent us reference/RA types an e-mail of
>readlikes for The DaVinci Code, created by YALSA. I thought this group
>might also find it of interest. Although it was created for teens, it has
>lots of adult books on it. (It might also be added to that list someone
>was creating about adult books for teens...)
>

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Lesley Knieriem [removed]@rpl.lib.ar.us
Reader's Advisory Librarian 479 - 621 - 1152
Rogers Public Library Rogers, AR 72758
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Nunc adeamus bibliothecam, non illam quidem multis
instructam libris, sed exquisitis. -- Erasmus
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