The adaptations do great at the box office, and Brown has made a killing off of books that, as one friend put it, “dads love to read.” And while that might sound like an insult, isn’t dad stuff in? We love dad hats and dad shoes and dad jokes - why not dad books?
Of course, you know all of this because you’re alive and presumably literate, in which case it’s impossible to escape Brown’s work. That, and a few of them have been turned into films directed by Ron Howard that star Tom Hanks. Romance writers like Steel churn out a book or two every year, while crime writer James Patterson - who’s inching toward 300 million sales - has collaborators to help him as he closes in on 100 books under his name. Stine, whose Goosebumps series raised an entire generation of millennials, is credited with more than 400 titles to his name. But at around 50th on the list, you’ll find him: Dan Brown, American author of just seven novels ( Digital Fortress is the only pre-Langdon title), with 200 million sold copies to his name.Īnd that’s really the thing of it: the sheer economy with which Brown has ascended to that echelon. Stephen King beats out Brown, checking in around 350 million, and a handful of Japanese manga writers are up there as well. Stan and Jan Berenstain sold about 250 million copies of their picture books about a family of eponymous, anthropomorphized bears. Rowling have both moved somewhere on the order of 500 million. William Shakespeare and Agatha Christie have sold in the billions.
Five novels later (six, if you include 2001’s Deception Point, which isn’t part of the Langdon series), Brown is one of the bestselling authors in human history. “It’s Dan Brown.”īrown has been just about impossible to ignore over the last 20 years, since he first introduced the world to his most famous character, Robert Langdon, in 2000’s Angels & Demons. “Jason?” I hear on the other end of the line. It’s just one of the most successful authors to ever walk the earth. Is a stranger calling me with a secret code I need to decipher? A world-famous art museum asking me to help solve a mystery? A telemarketer telling me I could be saving a lot of money on my boat insurance even though I don’t own one?
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