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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,174,289 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,155,637 ratings — published 1960
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,165,641 ratings — published 1932
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.85 — 922,811 ratings — published 2005
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,332,903 ratings — published 1954
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.25 — 776,691 ratings — published 1938
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,563,810 ratings — published 1897
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,356,978 ratings — published 1885
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,970,203 ratings — published 1937
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,848,254 ratings — published 1945
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,547,909 ratings — published 1942
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.20 — 798,360 ratings — published 1962
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.61 — 462,113 ratings — published 1957
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,429,075 ratings — published 1847
The Luminaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.75 — 87,781 ratings — published 2013
Foucault’s Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.91 — 76,919 ratings — published 1988
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,385,909 ratings — published 1952
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,023,380 ratings — published 2015
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.05 — 188,997 ratings — published 1872
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.86 — 189,391 ratings — published 1667
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.14 — 390,508 ratings — published 1989
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,142,544 ratings — published 1992
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.43 — 578,472 ratings — published 1899
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,312,078 ratings — published 1847
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,159,645 ratings — published 1967
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,792,549 ratings — published 2001
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,809,942 ratings — published 1949
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.00 — 795,774 ratings — published 1962
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,579,666 ratings — published 1915
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,534,963 ratings — published 1969
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,330,188 ratings — published 1963
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.99 — 907,646 ratings — published 1961
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,033,799 ratings — published 1939
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.58 — 638,434 ratings — published 1851
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.39 — 12,988 ratings — published 2004
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,028,931 ratings — published 1815
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,029,855 ratings — published 1951
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,581,187 ratings — published 1985
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.87 — 984,571 ratings — published 1955
The Berry Pickers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.07 — 374,156 ratings — published 2023
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.46 — 922,551 ratings — published 2022
The Dictionary of Lost Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.01 — 204,929 ratings — published 2020
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,298,140 ratings — published -800
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,779,891 ratings — published 1988
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,171,167 ratings — published 1866
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,081,870 ratings — published 2014
The Bone Clocks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.85 — 102,256 ratings — published 2014
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.98 — 779,031 ratings — published 1987
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.11 — 973,970 ratings — published 1878
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,061,093 ratings — published 1623
“From day one of being a librarian I'd learned that reading carried a lot of baggage, especially among people who didn't read a lot. The same folks who happily devoured television sitcoms and ate frozen pizza might stick their noses in the air about their reading material, stating that they read only nonfiction or literary works. To me, this was not discernment. This was snobbery. A good story was a good story. Period.”
― The Witch Is Back
― The Witch Is Back
“The distinction between high and low culture depresses me, dividing all culture like Gaul into high, middle, and low. It’s a very comforting way to think about culture, so long as you think of yourself as highbrow. I think it speaks to, and speaks out of, anxiety about class, especially in the United States, as people from the lower classes begin to participate in the literary arts and intellectual life in an aggressive way. Then folks start claiming there is high, middle and low culture—so know your place, please, and stay there. I don’t think it would have made much sense to Whitman. Some of the distinctions between high and low culture wouldn’t make much sense to someone like John Brown of Harpers Ferry, for example, who thought that Milton and Jonathan Edwards were as available to him as penny broadsides.”
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