Which lowbrow books do you love?

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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!

SVH was the rage in 8th grade! I haven't gone back to them but just idea makes me happy.

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Miss Fortune Series.

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jsmith123 wrote:Is the Cork O'Connor series low brow? I am loving William Kent Kreuger right now.

I dont think so. I love love this series.

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VC Andrews. I am also the poster from the other thread who is currently reading The Perfect Cheerleader. I like basically any book that would make a good Lifetime movie!

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Anonymous wrote:I love all the fantasy books by Tamora Pierce. Started reading them as a tween and still enjoy the storytelling. She made such rich worlds, I always thought they’d translate into fear movies.

I'm in my mid-50s and I LOVE her books! They're such great stories! I'm re-listening to the Protector of the Small series now.

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Anonymous wrote:I read the entire Slough House series by Mick Herron. That probably fits the definition of lowbrow but I did enjoy them!!

Also +1 Elizabeth, Jessica was kind of a b.

I read these semi-secretly in high school and loved the whole good twin/bad twin thing. Imagine my delight when the arts institute I attended got a pair of beautiful blonde identical twins, and one was sweet and one was kind of a betch

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Georgette Heyer's regency era novels.

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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.

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Jack Reacher. Pure middle-aged dad fantasy.

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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?

Lila Fowler.

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I loved the Shopaholic books that came out about 15 years ago.

Oh, and Philippa Gregory's books about the Tudors.

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Anonymous wrote:Currently reading The Palace Papers by Tina Brown. Just finished two huge assignments and I need this.

Love Palace Papers and Sweet Valley High and random Amazon Prime free soft core books

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Any witch romance mysteries, it appears to be an entire genre.

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The Hating Game
The Rosie Project
Liane Moriarty, Emily Giffin and Jennifer Weiner (for all of these authors I enjoyed some books more than others)

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Anonymous wrote:I will read anything and everything by Stephen King.

Me too. But I don’t think he really belongs in “low brow” (though I agree that a lot of book snobs with no familiarity would categorize him as such). I’m a voracious reader - regularly read everything including classics, contemporary ‘literary’ novels, mysteries/thrillers, westerns, sci-fi, non-fiction of all sorts, etc. etc. I’d say that King writes better than MANY contemporary writers who regularly get lauded in the literary press. I think there’s a bias and suspicion in that world against plot.