Which lowbrow books do you love?

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R.J. Blain Magical Romantic Comedy with a Body Count series

This series has gotten me through the past couple of years

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think I’m snobby but I have a hard time finding low brow books that don’t irritate me (like the characters in Grisham or Moriarty all drive me nuts). I really liked Bridget Jones diary and would like more fun reads like this.

Where’d You Go Bernadette

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Murder She Wrote books. They are so cozy and fun!

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I have read every single Nora Roberts book, most multiple times.

My favorite books ever are the Discovery of Witches series. LOVE.

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I keep trashy romances on my Nook for when I want to turn off the lights and fall asleep reading something unchallenging.

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Maybe middle-brow, not quite low-brow

but Simone St. James' first novel was gripping, The Haunting of Maddy Clare.

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Anonymous wrote:ACOTAR.

YES. I binged this as a mid-40 year old. Also loved the Bridgerton series. I read a ton of "real books," but I could never get through them without some brain candy breaks.

I also love light romances with HEA--especially the big city/small town trope. Is the main character the owner of a bakery/coffee shop/bookstore in a small town and the love interest is a CEO/lawyer/surgeon from The Big City passing through who ends up overstaying his/her welcome due to a broken car/snowstorm/sick parent and finds love and peace in the small town? Love it.

Lol same here - and McSweeney’s has a whole piece on those who love this genre: “ WE ARE A PICTURESQUE SMALL TOWN AND WE REFUSE TO BE THE SETTING FOR YOUR ROMANTIC COMEDY”

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-are-a-picturesque-small-town-and-we-refuse-to-be-the-setting-for-your-romantic-comedy

OMG that link is hilarious! And I am guilty of loving those types of books!

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These are just normal books, people.

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Anonymous wrote:
Lurlene McDaniel was a favorite YA trashy author. The teenage protagonist always had some chronic illness, often terminal, and there would be a soap opera tragedy. Like, two friends on the heart transplant list needed the same organ. Or a girl was in a horrible car accident with her mother and her mother died and she lived but the blood transfusion gave her AIDS. Or the girl with the fatal brain tumor finds her true love, who has cystic fibrosis. Or the other girl with the type 1 diabetes and eating disorder has a huge fight with her hemophiliac boyfriend but then he gets kicked by a horse. Absolutely maudlin garbage and I loved it. My mother bought me the books but I thought her eyes would about roll out of her head every time she did.

OMG I spent my entire sixth grade semi wishing I had leukemia. DARK

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Anonymous wrote:
Lurlene McDaniel was a favorite YA trashy author. The teenage protagonist always had some chronic illness, often terminal, and there would be a soap opera tragedy. Like, two friends on the heart transplant list needed the same organ. Or a girl was in a horrible car accident with her mother and her mother died and she lived but the blood transfusion gave her AIDS. Or the girl with the fatal brain tumor finds her true love, who has cystic fibrosis. Or the other girl with the type 1 diabetes and eating disorder has a huge fight with her hemophiliac boyfriend but then he gets kicked by a horse. Absolutely maudlin garbage and I loved it. My mother bought me the books but I thought her eyes would about roll out of her head every time she did.

OMG I spent my entire sixth grade semi wishing I had leukemia. DARK

Yes! 5th grade for me 😂 Thanks for reminding me that these books exist.

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Love the Tony Hillerman Chee and leaphorn novels.
I feel like I am right there with them investigating crimes in the
Navajo nation.

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Anything by John Grisham, but I never read them in public.

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Anonymous wrote:da Vinci Code!

I like all of Dan Brown's books. So sue me!

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Anonymous wrote:Omg. You are my people. I love Valley of the Dolls with a passion, and IRL I know only one other person who liked Swet Valley High. This is awesome!

Jessica or Elizabeth?

Elizabeth all the way.

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Anonymous wrote:Crazy Rich Asians

I really need to read this.

I read every Liane Moriarty book as soon as it comes out, and have read What Alice Forgot at least a half dozen times.

That's by far her best one.