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High Brow Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,205
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,914,038 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,882,804 ratings — published 1960
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,076,251 ratings — published 1932
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.85 — 853,618 ratings — published 2005
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,199,271 ratings — published 1954
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.25 — 720,181 ratings — published 1938
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,336,804 ratings — published 1885
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,834,714 ratings — published 1937
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,548,538 ratings — published 1945
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,399,756 ratings — published 1942
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.20 — 779,833 ratings — published 1962
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.61 — 448,099 ratings — published 1957
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,322,509 ratings — published 1847
Foucault’s Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.91 — 74,873 ratings — published 1988
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,312,101 ratings — published 1952
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.04 — 179,178 ratings — published 1872
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.86 — 182,559 ratings — published 1667
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,027,072 ratings — published 1992
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.43 — 558,355 ratings — published 1899
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,049,087 ratings — published 1847
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,104,324 ratings — published 1967
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,753,288 ratings — published 2001
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,457,810 ratings — published 1949
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.00 — 769,399 ratings — published 1962
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,426,247 ratings — published 1915
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,482,813 ratings — published 1969
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,220,254 ratings — published 1963
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.99 — 886,553 ratings — published 1961
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.03 — 994,023 ratings — published 1939
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.39 — 12,730 ratings — published 2004
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.05 — 982,753 ratings — published 1815
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,892,436 ratings — published 1951
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,421,437 ratings — published 1985
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.87 — 945,259 ratings — published 1955
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.47 — 791,896 ratings — published 2022
The Dictionary of Lost Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.01 — 190,324 ratings — published 2020
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,567,264 ratings — published 1988
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,079,589 ratings — published 1866
The Luminaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.75 — 85,643 ratings — published 2013
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.99 — 728,931 ratings — published 1987
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.28 — 926,177 ratings — published 2015
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.10 — 931,162 ratings — published 1878
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,020,044 ratings — published 1623
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.89 — 436,573 ratings — published 1603
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.77 — 149,664 ratings — published 1934
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.59 — 298,838 ratings — published 1726
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.10 — 78,284 ratings — published 8
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,050,433 ratings — published 1601
A Room with a View (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.89 — 201,665 ratings — published 1908
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,475,427 ratings — published 1897
“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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“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
