Best books ... chosen by Dan Brown

Dan Brown is the author of The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. His new novel, The Lost Symbol, was published last week.

Dan Brown is the author of The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. His new novel, The Lost Symbol, was published in October.

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. For anyone interested in the interrelation of different sciences and art forms, this book can be used as an eye-opening appetizer, a main course, or a delicious desert. I’m the son of a mathematician and a musician, so the interrelations were right up my alley.

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