“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.”

1. The Da Vinci Code Author : Dan Brown

Robert Langdon, Harvard Professor of symbology, receives an urgent late-night call while in Paris- the curator of the Louvre has been murdered.

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Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world.

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First published in 1990, David Wenzel’s comic book adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit was an immediate success and has become one of the best-loved graphic novels of the last 20 years.