What are the best examples of middlebrow lit?

What are the best examples of middlebrow lit?

Everything from Eugenides, everything from Franzen

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seriously, every other culture board has shed its middlebrow idols; we need to do the same

Probably Franzen too.

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Franzen
Bolaño
GGM
Danielewski
DFW, kinda
Houellebecq
Virginia Woolf
Dostoyevsky

Anything DFW or the Simpsons.

>Dostoyevsky

It's obviously designer

contemporary german lit, sherlock holmes, robinson crusoe, tolstoy, stendhal, somerset maugham

that's not what i asked

you're doing it wrong desu

Middlebrow novels are competently written but unambitious and 'safe' and easily accessible.

Ian McEwan or Donna Tartt are good examples. Its light entertainment without being full blown genre shite.

DFW, Woolf and Dosto are the absolute polar opposites of middlebrow, regardless of their literary merits

Best middlebrow:

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Book of the New Sun
Au Rebours
Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Idiot
Devils of Loudun
Crying of the Lot 49

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This guys gets it

There is no middlebrow literature, middlebrow is an approach to literature.

Literature is only divided between good and bad, or rather "Worth reading" and "Worth skipping"

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Ron Rash and Walker Percy are friggen excellent

i'm answering the question you should have asked

Would yall consider Rushdie high- or middle-brow?

I don't recall /mu/ shedding David Bowie or Bjork.

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Definitely middle. Anyone published in the New Yorker is by definition middle-brow.

Malcolm Gladwell is the king of middle-brow non-fiction.

Pic related: middle-brows love this shit.

David Mitchell, Alexander Dumas, maybe Franzen

Not at all Dostoevsky/DFW/Pynchon as others have posted here...

You realize this is just a thread for people to self-aggrandize by putting down authors generally considered "high brow" or "classic" as being "middle brow", with the implication that the poster reads/exists one level above everyone else? Stupid.

Like everyone defines shit how they want but you'd lack any high lit.

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Murakami.