Reading order · 6 books · 2000 to 2025
Robert Langdon Books in Order
Robert Langdon is a Harvard professor of symbology who keeps being called in to decode symbols, art and architecture against the clock, in cities from Rome and Paris to Washington, Florence, Barcelona and Prague.
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Series facts
- Books
- 6
- Published
- 2000 to 2025
- First book
- Angels and Demons
- Latest
- The Secret of Secrets (2025)
The reading order
Every Robert Langdon book in publication order. Choose a title for its cast and summary.
6 books
- 1Angels and Demons2000With Robert LangdonA physicist at CERN is murdered and branded with the symbol of the Illuminati, an ancient secret society, and a canister of antimatter has been stolen.Buy on Amazon
- 2The Da Vinci Code2003With Robert LangdonThe curator of the Louvre is found murdered in the museum, his body arranged with a cryptic message.Buy on Amazon
- 3The Lost Symbol2009With Robert LangdonRobert Langdon is invited to speak in Washington, and finds instead the severed hand of his mentor, Peter Solomon, in the Capitol rotunda, pointing upward.Buy on Amazon
- 4Inferno2013With Robert LangdonRobert Langdon wakes in a hospital in Florence with no memory of the last two days, and with a doctor named Sienna Brooks, he follows clues hidden in Dante’s Inferno to stop a plan to unleash a plague.Buy on Amazon
- 5Origin2017With Robert LangdonA futurist, Edmond Kirsch, prepares to announce a discovery about the origin and future of humanity at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, with Robert Langdon in the audience.Buy on Amazon
- 6The Secret of Secrets2025With Robert LangdonRobert Langdon is in Prague with his friend Katherine Solomon, a scientist who is about to publish a ground-breaking book on human consciousness, when she disappears.Buy on Amazon
Do you need to read them in order?
Each book stands alone, so they can be read in any order, though publication order lets Langdon’s small history build. Angels and Demons comes first.
Who appears in which book
The series’ main characters, book by book. Lead means the book is told around them; minor covers cameos.
| Book | Robert Langdon | Katherine Solomon |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Angels and Demons | LLead | |
| 2 The Da Vinci Code | LLead | |
| 3 The Lost Symbol | LLead | MMajor |
| 4 Inferno | LLead | |
| 5 Origin | LLead | |
| 6 The Secret of Secrets | LLead | MMajor |
Characters in the Robert Langdon books
6 characters from Dan Brown’s chart, with the number of Robert Langdon books each appears in.
| Character | Books | First in this series |
|---|---|---|
| Robert LangdonHarvard professor of symbology | 6 | Angels and Demons 2000 |
| Katherine SolomonNoetic scientist | 2 | The Lost Symbol 2009 |
| Vittoria VetraCERN physicist | 1 | Angels and Demons 2000 |
| Sophie NeveuFrench police cryptologist | 1 | The Da Vinci Code 2003 |
| Sienna BrooksDoctor who helps Langdon in Florence | 1 | Inferno 2013 |
| Ambra VidalDirector of the Guggenheim Bilbao | 1 | Origin 2017 |