Brown, Dan. Angels and Demons. London: Corgi, 2009. Print.
Robert Langdon, a Harvard symbologist, receives a mysterious phone call along with a fax picturing a gruesome murder of an important scientist, Leonardo Vetra. Upon agreeing to use his knowledge to assist in solving the murder, Langdon is flown to a scientific haven, CERN, in Switzerland. As Langdon examines a brand burned into Vetra's chest, he soon sees the ambigram of the ancient secret society, the Illuminati. After a trip to Vetra's lab accompanied by Vetra's daughter, Vittoria and CERN's director, Maximilian Kohler, Langdon learns that he's in for much more than a simple murder mystery. Vetra's work on antimatter, an extremely explosive nuclear power, has put Vatican City in extreme danger. When Robert and Vittoria arrive in Vatican City to retrieve the antimatter, they're suddenly sucked into a whirlwind of kidnapped Cardinals, broken traditions, and ancient secret societies coming back with a vengeance. (3 books)
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006. Print
Huxley's Brave New World gives a thrilling sneak peek into the future of humanity in Huxley's own mind. With a society insistent on ubiquitous pleasure and a savage reservation based on a mixture of "old world" religions, Huxley's depiction of the inevitable future is grim and hopeless. However, there are rare individualistic souls in the society that intends to turn their unethical culture around. (2 books)
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