Katy originally recommended that I read The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (she had finished it and was then reading The Name of the Rose) and then Mom passed along her copy after reading it on her California visit. I couldn't put it down!
BobbiLynn saw my copy today and mentioned that there were secrets to be learned at www.danbrown.com so now I have to go try to figure them out...
I'm now reading The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image, by Leonard Shlain. I've had it sitting on my shelf for over a year, but it seemed like the perfect follow-up book.