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Goodreads "Best Literary Fiction" (Sort Of) - Page 5

"But a few aren't even fiction!", I can hear some of you scream, even though I'm all the way down here in Sydney.
Any way, according to Goodreads, "Literary fiction is serious fiction with claims to literary merit, and focuses more on style, psychological depth, and character. (As opposed to genre or popular fiction). What are your favourites of literary fiction?"
You can decide if a book on this list actually 'deserves' to be classified as literary fiction, regardless of what Goodreads' voters decided. I suspect for some readers it would be the 'kiss of death' for a book to be tagged as literary fiction.
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avg. score: 89 of 528 (17%)
required scores: 1, 43, 68, 94, 132 

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The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
162
Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
163
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
164
Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
165
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
166
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer)
167
The Ginger Man (J.P. Donleavy)
The Ginger Man (J.P. Donleavy)
168
The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
169
I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith)
I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith)
170
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
171
A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
172
Garden Spells (Sarah Addison Allen)
Garden Spells (Sarah Addison Allen)
173
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
174
The Swiss Family Robinson (Johann Wyss)
The Swiss Family Robinson (Johann Wyss)
175
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (Mark Haddon)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (Mark Haddon)
176
The Complete Short Stories (Flannery O'Connor)
The Complete Short Stories (Flannery O'Connor)
177
Possession (A.S. Byatt)
Possession (A.S. Byatt)
178
The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)
The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)
179
The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
180
Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
181
Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
182
Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)
Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)
183
The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
184
Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)
Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)
185
The Reader (Bernhard Schlink)
The Reader (Bernhard Schlink)
186
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (Helen Simonson)
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (Helen Simonson)
187
A Ring of Endless Light (Madeleine L'engle)
A Ring of Endless Light (Madeleine L'engle)
188
Empire Falls (Richard Russo)
Empire Falls (Richard Russo)
189
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
190
Tender Is the Night (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Tender Is the Night (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
191
The Godfather (Mario Puzo)
The Godfather (Mario Puzo)
192
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (C.S. Lewis)
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (C.S. Lewis)
193
Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)
Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)
194
The Fixer (Bernard Malamud)
The Fixer (Bernard Malamud)
195
The Day of the Locust (Nathanael West)
The Day of the Locust (Nathanael West)
196
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle)
197
Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
198
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
199
My Name Is Red (Orhan Pamuk)
My Name Is Red (Orhan Pamuk)
200
The Last Lecture (Randy Pausch)
The Last Lecture (Randy Pausch)
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