Books Like The Lost Symbol

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Paul Michael narrates Dan Brown's Washington DC thriller with the same brisk, scene-to-scene momentum that makes the Langdon novels work on audio — the 18-hour runtime never slows for the expository material because Michael delivers the code-breaking sequences with the same urgency as the chase sequences. All ten picks run near that length, and the recommendations pull from across literary mystery and conspiracy thriller, drawing on the four award-winning titles and the highly-rated pick that share the same need-to-keep-listening propulsion.

10 books for fans of The Lost Symbol

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    Security Hounds Investigations Books 1-3/Tracking The Truth/Fugitive Search/Hunted On The Trail cover

    Security Hounds Investigations Books 1-3/Tracking The Truth/Fugitive Search/Hunted On The Trail

    Security Hounds Investigations • Book 1

    by Dana Mentink

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    Search-and-rescue dogs drive these romantic mysteries, tracking missing persons through wilderness settings. Mentink combines realistic canine training details with faith-based romantic suspense across three connected cases.

    5.00 Goodreads (2 ratings)
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    Best of "The Strand Magazine": 25 Years of Twists, Turns, and Tales from the Modern Masters of Mystery and Fiction cover

    Best of "The Strand Magazine": 25 Years of Twists, Turns, and Tales from the Modern Masters of Mystery and Fiction

    by Andrew F. Gulli - editor, Lamia J. Gulli - editor

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    Twenty-five years of The Strand Magazine's finest short fiction distills masters like Jo Nesbø's Nordic noir and Ray Bradbury's imagination into bite-sized revelations. Each story represents a different flavor of literary excellence.

    4.67 Goodreads (3 ratings)
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    Nora Roberts Collection 5: Midnight Bayou, Chesapeake Blue, and Birthright cover

    Nora Roberts Collection 5: Midnight Bayou, Chesapeake Blue, and Birthright

    by Nora Roberts, Sandra Burr, James Daniels, Bernadette Quigley

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    Declan Fitzgerald impulsively buys a crumbling New Orleans mansion, beginning renovations that awaken both supernatural mysteries and unexpected romance in the bayou.

    4.51 Goodreads (1.3K ratings)
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    Black Mirror: A Cait Reagan Novel (Boston Preternatural Investigations Unit Book 2) cover

    Black Mirror: A Cait Reagan Novel (Boston Preternatural Investigations Unit Book 2)

    Boston Preternatural Investigations Unit • Book 2

    by Aoibh Wood

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    Seemingly cured of her vampire curse, Detective Cait Reagan faces new supernatural threats while caring for her brain-damaged mother.

    4.43 Goodreads (394 ratings)
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    The Harry Bosch Novels: The Black Echo, The Black Ice, The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch Series) cover

    The Harry Bosch Novels: The Black Echo, The Black Ice, The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch Series)

    Harry Bosch #1-3 • Book 3

    by Michael Connelly

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    Harry Bosch's origin trilogy follows the haunted LAPD detective from a Vietnam tunnel rat murder that hits too close to home through his most challenging cases.

    4.37 Goodreads (3.9K ratings)
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    The Keeper

    Cal Hooper • Book 3

    by Tana French

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    Irish village secrets reach their breaking point in the concluding chapter of Cal's story. French's atmospheric writing and complex character development culminate in this highly anticipated series finale.

    4.33 Goodreads (870 ratings)
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    Rebecca

    by Daphne du Maurier

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    Maxim de Winter's new bride discovers that his dead first wife, Rebecca, still rules their grand estate through memory, servants, and secrets that threaten to destroy everything.

    4.25 Goodreads (730.8K ratings)
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    Career of Evil

    Cormoran Strike • Book 3

    by Robert Galbraith

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    A severed leg delivered to their office sends Strike and Robin hunting through four dangerous suspects from Strike's past, each with motive to terrorize the detective agency.

    4.22 Goodreads (231.1K ratings)
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    We Are All Guilty Here

    North Falls • Book 1

    by Karin Slaughter

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    Officer Emmy Clifton's past haunts her when two girls disappear during North Falls' fireworks night, forcing her to confront the friend she failed to help years earlier. Slaughter launches a new series exploring small-town secrets and guilt.

    4.21 Goodreads (133.0K ratings)
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    Mystic River

    by Dennis Lehane

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    Lehane explores how childhood trauma echoes through decades when three Boston friends are reunited by the murder of one's daughter.

    4.18 Goodreads (166.9K ratings)