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I'd go with the Da Vinci Code, I think ... I'm not sure I know the other two (though I've resisted reading even DVC).  |
The Golden Compass, by Phillip Pulman, is in the same approximate marketing category as the Harry Potter books, and the first book has been made into a film to be released later this year.
The Kite Runner is a contemporary bestseller fictionalizing an account of life in Afghanistan.
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Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable, beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan nonetheless grow up in different worlds: Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant, is a Hazara, member of a shunned ethnic minority....
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Maybe a Stephen King book would be best. Even people who don't read Stephen King usually know who he is, and a lot of his work is available in ebook form.
Either that, or Stephen Hawking's
A Brief History of Time -- Hawking has appeared on Star Trek NG, after all!