Episode 24: Six Novels

Black Ibis Social Club · Oct 25, 2024 · 1h 58m

Inspired by Librarian of Celaeno’s recent post The Librarian of Celaeno’s Top 20 Book Recommendations, I decided to pull out my journals and make my own list. This episode opens up with a discussion about Low Brow, High Brow, and Middle Brow literature. The six novels I chose to recommend are High Middle Brow and one of them even overlaps with Librarian’s choices. This is not a list of the greatest novels. It’s not even ranked. The books I chose are the novels I find stylistically, thematically, and compositionally aesthetically pleasing. These six novels inform my own personal style and…