My older brother and I do not consider ourselves to be literary snobs, but we both have degrees in English literature, and read quite a bit of what might be considered "high literature" in our early days. Thus, it amused us both to find that we enjoyed the Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child novels. I apologize if this sounds as though I am damning the books with faint praise, for I am not; the books, especially those featuring Special Agent Pendergast, are a sort of guilty pleasure, and I think I now have a better understanding of how highly educated women must feel when they read those romance novels with the shirtless heroes on the covers.
One need not read the Pendergast books in order of appearance - my first was Cemetery Dance - but if one would like to read the books in order, here's the list:
- Relic
- Reliquary (the sequel to Relic, as one might guess from the title)
- The Cabinet of Curiosities
- Still Life with Crows
- Brimstone
- Dance of Death
- The Book of the Dead
- The Wheel of Darkness
- Cemetery Dance
- Cold Vengeance (2011)
Of interest:
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