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Goodreads "Best Literary Fiction" (Sort Of) - Page 2

"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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A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
A Prayer for Owen Meany
41
John Irving
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
A Thousand Splendid Suns
42
Khaled Hosseini
The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
The Shadow of the Wind
43
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Perfume (Patrick Süskind)
Perfume
44
Patrick Süskind
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
45
Betty Smith
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
Love in the Time of Cholera
46
Gabriel García Márquez
Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
Flowers for Algernon
47
Daniel Keyes
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Of Mice and Men
48
John Steinbeck
Deliverance (James Dickey)
Deliverance
49
James Dickey
The Giver (Lois Lowry)
The Giver
50
Lois Lowry
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita
51
Mikhail Bulgakov
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra)
Don Quixote
52
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
53
Joseph Heller
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter
54
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry)
Lonesome Dove
55
Larry McMurtry
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
56
Mary Shelley
The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
The Alchemist
57
Paulo Coelho
The Help (Kathryn Stockett)
The Help
58
Kathryn Stockett
Heidi (Johanna Spyri)
Heidi
59
Johanna Spyri
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
The Little Prince
60
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
61
Douglas Adams
Persuasion (Jane Austen)
Persuasion
62
Jane Austen
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Remains of the Day
63
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
The Hunger Games
64
Suzanne Collins
Sophie's Choice (William Styron)
Sophie's Choice
65
William Styron
The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
The Pillars of the Earth
66
Ken Follett
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby-Dick
67
Herman Melville
Little House on the Prairie (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
Little House on the Prairie
68
Laura Ingalls Wilder
The World According to Garp (John Irving)
The World According to Garp
69
John Irving
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mary Ann Shaffer)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
70
Mary Ann Shaffer
The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
The Good Earth
71
Pearl S. Buck
The Thirteenth Tale (Diane Setterfield)
The Thirteenth Tale
72
Diane Setterfield
Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
Middlesex
73
Jeffrey Eugenides
The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
The Man Without Qualities
74
Robert Musil
The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
The Secret Life of Bees
75
Sue Monk Kidd
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea
76
Ernest Hemingway
Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen)
Water for Elephants
77
Sara Gruen
Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
Metamorphosis
78
Franz Kafka
The Once and Future King (T.H. White)
The Once and Future King
79
T.H. White
The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
The Red Tent
80
Anita Diamant
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