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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,138,083 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,118,054 ratings — published 1960
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,152,274 ratings — published 1932
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.85 — 912,448 ratings — published 2005
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,313,298 ratings — published 1954
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.25 — 764,268 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 — 1,353,471 ratings — published 1885
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,949,035 ratings — published 1937
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,803,425 ratings — published 1945
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,523,428 ratings — published 1942
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.20 — 795,547 ratings — published 1962
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.61 — 460,029 ratings — published 1957
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,412,305 ratings — published 1847
The Luminaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.75 — 87,552 ratings — published 2013
Foucault’s Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.91 — 76,530 ratings — published 1988
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,374,615 ratings — published 1952
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.05 — 187,357 ratings — published 1872
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.86 — 188,193 ratings — published 1667
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,540,204 ratings — published 1897
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,122,032 ratings — published 1992
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.43 — 575,184 ratings — published 1899
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,291,135 ratings — published 1847
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,150,510 ratings — published 1967
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,787,160 ratings — published 2001
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,757,645 ratings — published 1949
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.00 — 792,021 ratings — published 1962
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,553,073 ratings — published 1915
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,526,894 ratings — published 1969
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,312,825 ratings — published 1963
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.99 — 904,395 ratings — published 1961
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,027,016 ratings — published 1939
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.39 — 12,956 ratings — published 2004
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,022,352 ratings — published 1815
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,010,064 ratings — published 1951
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,558,139 ratings — published 1985
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.87 — 978,020 ratings — published 1955
The Berry Pickers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.07 — 366,198 ratings — published 2023
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.46 — 901,973 ratings — published 2022
The Dictionary of Lost Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.01 — 203,054 ratings — published 2020
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,283,058 ratings — published -800
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,749,782 ratings — published 1988
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,156,173 ratings — published 1866
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,068,252 ratings — published 2014
The Bone Clocks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.85 — 101,902 ratings — published 2014
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.98 — 771,395 ratings — published 1987
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,008,862 ratings — published 2015
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.11 — 967,199 ratings — published 1878
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,054,844 ratings — published 1623
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.89 — 448,599 ratings — published 1603
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,086,935 ratings — published 2006
“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