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Goodreads "Best Literary Fiction" (Sort Of)

"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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To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
1
Harper Lee
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Jane Eyre
2
Charlotte Brontë
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
3
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
4
J.D. Salinger
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
5
Jane Austen
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
6
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind
7
Margaret Mitchell
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies
8
William Golding
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
9
Emily Brontë
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
10
George Orwell
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
11
Oscar Wilde
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
12
Leo Tolstoy
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
13
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
14
C.S. Lewis
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
15
John Steinbeck
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple
16
Alice Walker
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
Memoirs of a Geisha
17
Arthur Golden
Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
Anne of Green Gables
18
L.M. Montgomery
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Hobbit
19
J.R.R. Tolkien
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
20
Vladimir Nabokov
Rebecca (Daphne Dumaurier)
Rebecca
21
Daphne Dumaurier
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
22
Ken Kesey
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
23
George Orwell
The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
The Kite Runner
24
Khaled Hosseini
The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
The Book Thief
25
Markus Zusak
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
26
Charles Dickens
The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
The Secret Garden
27
Frances Hodgson Burnett
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
28
Leo Tolstoy
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
29
Mark Twain
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
Life of Pi
30
Yann Martel
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
31
Toni Morrison
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
East of Eden
32
John Steinbeck
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
33
Mark Twain
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
34
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
The Poisonwood Bible
35
Barbara Kingsolver
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Fahrenheit 451
36
Ray Bradbury
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Never Let Me Go
37
Kazuo Ishiguro
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
38
Aldous Huxley
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (J.K. Rowling)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
39
J.K. Rowling
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five
40
Kurt Vonnegut
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