The Da Vinci Code appeared the same year as the fifth Harry Potter installment and just edged it out in total sales, while coming in behind Rowling’s first Potter novel. The Harry Potter books have performed a similar function for millennials. Writers like Tolkien and Lewis self-consciously aimed to feed the imaginations of children with fantastical but morally serious narratives in a modern world where the authority of traditional myths-including the Bible-had waned. The authors in this select cohort, most of whom wrote for younger readers, fall broadly into the category of mythmakers. Rowling is Brown’s only contemporary on the list. Recent estimates place total sales above eighty million, putting The Da Vinci Code among the top ten bestsellers of all time and placing Brown in the company of Charles Dickens, C. But just a year later, on the first anniversary of the release, Doubleday announced it was “the bestselling adult novel of all time within a one-year period.” By then, nearly seven million copies were in print. Judging by the modest sales of his previous novel, Angels and Demons, two years earlier, it’s unlikely that either Brown or his publisher anticipated the new book’s sensational success. In April 2003, Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code hit bookstores.
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