Book · 2003 · Suspense & Thriller
The Da Vinci Code
#174 of 16,793 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts
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- people
- 15
- podcasts
- 13
- episodes
- 18
- recommendation
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I finished I finished The Da Vinci Code. It's so good. And it's You know why? Cuz it's written with really, really, really short chapters. So you read like three pages.
Simon Sinek · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · May 2022 Listen at 1:27:32 What they say about it
- Bestselling and popular thriller“one of the best-selling mystery thriller books ever”4

- Leans on historical concepts“Dan Brown leans very heavily on this in one of his books, at least in The Da Vinci Code!”4
- Fictionalizing real groups“no group wants their thing fictionalized to be like a massive hit”2
The best things said about it
I was reading the Da Vinci Code, which you know, well known for being a page turner.
So we had a list of 82 books that had been pre-rated as extremely tempting and difficult to put down once you get engaged. So these are books like The Da Vinci Code and The Hunger Games.
Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code which was a huge bestseller when it came came out in 2003.
The book The Da Vinci Code is practically written in screenplay format.
I got weirded out with him when he started doing those movies about like the [ __ ] secret biblical [ __ ] DaVinci Code. Yeah. I was like did you read these scripts. Yeah. That was bad. These are terrible movies. You goddamn Tom Hanks was a bad book. How's it house. A bad book and I become a.
Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience · Oct 2017 If you're into angels and demons, you're missing out on a great series.
George Santos Timcast IRL · Feb 2026 Where and when it comes up
Mentions per year
How it comes up
15 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown is one of the best-selling mystery thriller novels in history, blending cryptography, religious history, and secret societies. George Santos recommended the author's broader series on Timcast IRL for anyone interested in themes of angels and demons. The book's cultural impact and historical inspirations surfaced in numerous podcast discussions. On My First Million, the host brought up the author to talk about how childhood memories can spark lifelong creative pursuits. Harlan Coben shared on Freakonomics Radio that Dan Brown had approached him with the early manuscript to review before publication. Mel Robbins mentioned reading the novel as an example of finding unexpected free time for enjoyable activities. Jordan Harbinger referenced the book and its film adaptation on The Jordan Harbinger Show while interviewing a cult expert about public awareness of Opus Dei and its practices. Finally, the hosts of Stuff They Don't Want You To Know noted that Dan Brown leaned heavily on alternative historical theories regarding secret bloodlines.
Every mention
George Santos Dan Brown. You didn't never read the Dan Brown the Dainci Code series? No. I've heard of it though. Oh, you… 1
“Dan Brown. You didn't never read the Dan Brown the Dainci Code series? No. I've heard of it though. Oh, you should. I mean, if you're into angels and demons, you're missing out on a great series.”
Alexandra Alter this week Random House announced an upcoming publication It's actually an old one it's Dan Brown's The Da V… 3
“this week Random House announced an upcoming publication It's actually an old one it's Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code which was a huge bestseller when it came came out in 2003”
“it's Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code which was a huge bestseller when it came came out in 2003”
“I mean the first wave of responses to the announcement that they were releasing a teen version of The Da Vinci Code was for example I'll quotee a piece in the guardian by Sam jordison”
Jordan Harbinger Cuz I think the audience is going to either have never heard of them or some people will go, "Wait, isn't t… 3
“Cuz I think the audience is going to either have never heard of them or some people will go, "Wait, isn't that from the Da Vinci Code?"”
“Because this is just one of the weird practices of the members and I think people who've seen the the is it the Da Vinci Code movie?”
“So Dan Brown writes the Da Vinci Code and I did this cause ruckus inside Opus Day because no no group wants their thing fictionalized to be like a massive hit”
Ben Bowlin Dan Brown leans very heavily on this in one of his books at least in the D Vinci Code 2
“Dan Brown leans very heavily on this in one of his books at least in the D Vinci Code”
“when Dan Brown leveraged this concept for the basis of the deci code which is um I still think a solid solid film and I enjoyed the book”
Jordan Peterson you know there was a book published a while back tom hanks was in the movie he was a harvard professor who… 2
“you know there was a book published a while back tom hanks was in the movie he was a harvard professor who went around solving symbolic mysteries do you remember what was it called the da vinci code”
“uh it was as excitingly plotted as dan brown's uh da vinci code which is really saying something given that was a best-selling novel and this is actually a work of adventure non-fiction inquiry and scientific exploration all compacted into something that was extraordinarily readable”
Bill Burr you look at the Li look at the that really average looking woman that that guy painted from The Da Vinci Co… 1
“you look at the Li look at the that really average looking woman that that guy painted from The Da Vinci Code Evidently she was she was smirking because she realized that uh I can't remember she realized something you know I've never like stood the Mona Lisa I just I found her arrogant”
Bryan Callen in his book The Da Vinci Code actually talks about it 1
“in his book The Da Vinci Code actually talks about it”
Bubba Sparxxx The DaVinci Code or something like oh yeah I just watched well he was like he was like um asking a guy abou… 1
“The DaVinci Code or something like oh yeah I just watched well he was like he was like um asking a guy about God and he said no don't tell me what what man has told you about God tell me what you think about God”
Harlan Coben And I remember a couple of years later after I had already had a little bit of success and Dan had came to… 1
“And I remember a couple of years later after I had already had a little bit of success and Dan had came to me with the manuscript for Da Vinci Code.”
Joe Rogan I got weirded out with him when he started doing those movies about like the [ __ ] secret biblical [ __ ]… 1
“I got weirded out with him when he started doing those movies about like the [ __ ] secret biblical [ __ ] DaVinci Code. Yeah. I was like did you read these scripts. Yeah. That was bad. These are terrible movies. You goddamn Tom Hanks was a bad book. How's it house. A bad book and I become a”
Katy Milkman So we had a list of 82 books that had been pre-rated as extremely tempting and difficult to put down once y… 1
“So we had a list of 82 books that had been pre-rated as extremely tempting and difficult to put down once you get engaged. So these are books like The Da Vinci Code and The Hunger Games.”
Mel Robbins I recall, I mean, it was something like 20 years ago now, but I was reading the Da Vinci Code, which you kn… 1
“I recall, I mean, it was something like 20 years ago now, but I was reading the Da Vinci Code, which you know, well known for being a page turner.”
Robert Evans have you read the D Vinci Code Robert no the book The D Vinci Code is practically written in screenplay format 1
“have you read the D Vinci Code Robert no the book The D Vinci Code is practically written in screenplay format”
Simon Sinek I finished I finished The Da Vinci Code. It's so good. And it's You know why? Cuz it's written with really,… 1
“I finished I finished The Da Vinci Code. It's so good. And it's You know why? Cuz it's written with really, really, really short chapters. So you read like three pages.”
Zach Lahn they're sitting in different chairs reading and the books that I saw them reading were Atlas Shrugged the b… 1
“they're sitting in different chairs reading and the books that I saw them reading were Atlas Shrugged the boys who challenged Hitler The Da Vinci Code and unbroken”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker3
“You know Dan Brown, the author of The Da Vinci Code, which is like one of the best-selling mystery thriller books ever, and like Demons and Angels. He's got a He's got a bunch of books like this.”
“And you know, this is very Dan Brown! Dan Brown leans very heavily on this in one of his books, at least in The Da Vinci Code! And the idea is that this bloodline was, uh, secreted away!”
“It went mainstream when Dan Brown leveraged this concept for the basis of the Da Vinci Code, which is, um... I still think a solid, solid film, and I enjoyed the book. Uh, I would say I have not read the book, but the film I was happier than a lot of the critics about it.”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (24: passing, ad reads, own books)
“Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code famously spent 136 weeks on top of the New York Times bestseller list.”
“The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons. Did you know Jima this is the sixth book in the Robert Langden series?”
“She cited some of course, again, this is like, you know, my experience with this is like the Da Vinci Code, but like talking about she was like in 350 AD, they declared it.”
“in his not novel Da Vinci C Dan Brown cites the 14th century execution”
“and part of why he fascinates us now part of why he's on a PBS special part of why there was The Da Vinci Code”
“dude or um the guy that wrote um the Vinci Code yeah you know what I'm saying”
“The Da Vinci Cod is the number 10 bestselling Noel”
“I know Angels and Demons it was like what was that the pre before Da Vinci Code or something”
“The Da Vinci Code was a big deal yeah with Tom Hanks”
“like that guy from Angels and Demons or The Da Vinci Code you know like a Tom Hanks type guy who's like I have tracked the kite's temple I know all the revelations”
“I mean I'm talking about some dude who's like the like that guy from Angels and Demons or The Da Vinci Code”
“And I said, 'Well, that's why it's the Da Vinci code and not the Da Vinci world.'”
“I got to the I was able to read that da Vinci Code in Arabic”
“so tom hanks doing divi code i didn't really want to do davinci code but tom hanks so like the whole narrator thing”
“do you remember what was it called the da vinci code”
“and that's but that's the reason why it's the da vinci code and at the da vinci life because he never was able to get it across to the to the to the level to affect us for generations to come”
“i thinkopus daimaybe a couple of the othersyou'll remember opus deiif you've seen the da vinci code”
“This was of course Dan Brown's novel. That was a real book, actually.”
“you go into a museum you look at the Li look at the that really average looking woman that that guy painted from The Da Vinci Code evidently she was”
“Yes. It's like the Da Vinci Code, but for success. Yeah, exactly. The success code.”
“that sounds I'm reading The Da Vinci Code at the moment in amongst all of the nonfiction I'm going through and this sounds like the the mineralogists version of The DaVinci Code”
“I think this is at least being brown in his book The Da Vinci Code actually talks about it”
“According to the [ __ ] Rosetta Stone or whatever that [ __ ] movie was. I read the book, too. What the [ __ ] was the name of that Da Vinci Code?”
“So, these are books like The Da Vinci Code and The Hunger Games.”





