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The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,970,978 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,942,604 ratings — published 1960
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,095,384 ratings — published 1932
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.85 — 867,983 ratings — published 2005
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,226,468 ratings — published 1954
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.25 — 730,964 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 — 1,341,981 ratings — published 1885
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,862,673 ratings — published 1937
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,613,689 ratings — published 1945
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,428,982 ratings — published 1942
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.20 — 783,927 ratings — published 1962
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.61 — 451,101 ratings — published 1957
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,345,113 ratings — published 1847
Foucault’s Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.91 — 75,245 ratings — published 1988
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,326,938 ratings — published 1952
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.04 — 180,673 ratings — published 1872
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.86 — 183,887 ratings — published 1667
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,492,574 ratings — published 1897
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,050,415 ratings — published 1992
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.43 — 562,565 ratings — published 1899
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,168,824 ratings — published 1847
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,115,477 ratings — published 1967
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,761,499 ratings — published 2001
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,536,755 ratings — published 1948
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.00 — 775,459 ratings — published 1962
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,455,393 ratings — published 1915
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,493,328 ratings — published 1969
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,243,294 ratings — published 1963
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.99 — 890,909 ratings — published 1961
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,001,607 ratings — published 1939
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.39 — 12,763 ratings — published 2004
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.05 — 992,896 ratings — published 1815
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,920,895 ratings — published 1951
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,457,628 ratings — published 1985
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.87 — 953,821 ratings — published 1955
The Berry Pickers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.08 — 323,166 ratings — published 2023
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.46 — 820,471 ratings — published 2022
The Dictionary of Lost Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.01 — 193,606 ratings — published 2020
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,614,565 ratings — published 1988
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,098,569 ratings — published 1866
The Luminaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.75 — 86,102 ratings — published 2013
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.99 — 739,084 ratings — published 1987
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.27 — 947,336 ratings — published 2015
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.10 — 940,311 ratings — published 1878
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,029,447 ratings — published 1623
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.89 — 439,556 ratings — published 1603
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.77 — 150,581 ratings — published 1934
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 3.59 — 300,457 ratings — published 1726
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.10 — 78,894 ratings — published 8
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as high-brow)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,061,674 ratings — published 1601
“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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