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Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as highbrow)
avg rating 4.25 — 771,336 ratings — published 1938
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as highbrow)
avg rating 3.81 — 227,325 ratings — published 1927
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as highbrow)
avg rating 3.77 — 377,585 ratings — published 1925
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as highbrow)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,414 ratings — published 1965
Liquid: A Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 2.94 — 4,693 ratings — published 2025
The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 4.41 — 49,355 ratings — published 2020
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,088,219 ratings — published 2013
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 4.47 — 198,814 ratings — published 2018
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,366 ratings — published 2017
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 186,396 ratings — published 2017
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 4.46 — 431,009 ratings — published 2016
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,161 ratings — published 2015
The Luminaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 3.75 — 87,688 ratings — published 2013
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 3.83 — 516,163 ratings — published 2016
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 4.44 — 34,669 ratings — published 1962
Commonwealth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 3.84 — 216,023 ratings — published 2016
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 4.19 — 49,481 ratings — published 1949
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,721,338 ratings — published 1939
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,077,013 ratings — published 2014
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 4.22 — 208,181 ratings — published 2004
Possession (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 3.90 — 86,836 ratings — published 1990
Babel Tower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,901 ratings — published 1996
The Golden Notebook (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 3.77 — 25,489 ratings — published 1962
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 3.85 — 473,578 ratings — published 1817
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,303,976 ratings — published 1847
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 4.22 — 283,873 ratings — published 1929
The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 3.92 — 47,402 ratings — published 2000
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,134,418 ratings — published 1992
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 3.44 — 11,639 ratings — published 2014
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 4.25 — 106,338 ratings — published 1996
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,048,059 ratings — published 1876
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 4.40 — 418,046 ratings — published 1879
The Quiet American (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 3.98 — 75,852 ratings — published 1955
Franny and Zooey (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 3.95 — 246,890 ratings — published 1957
How Should a Person Be? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 3.34 — 17,720 ratings — published 2010
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 4.01 — 276,195 ratings — published 2004
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,014,674 ratings — published 1818
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,142,365 ratings — published 1960
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,022,973 ratings — published 1951
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,423,018 ratings — published 1847
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 3.96 — 579,995 ratings — published 2001
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 3.86 — 202,297 ratings — published 1929
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 3.69 — 412,578 ratings — published 1957
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 4.12 — 815,400 ratings — published 1998
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,160,959 ratings — published 1925
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,962,790 ratings — published 1937
Leaves of Grass (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as highbrow)
avg rating 4.11 — 119,853 ratings — published 1855
Female Life on Planet Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as highbrow)
avg rating 3.95 — 166 ratings — published 2026
The Singer's Gun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as highbrow)
avg rating 3.85 — 14,112 ratings — published 2010
Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as highbrow)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,451 ratings — published 1993
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