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Goodreads "Best Literary Fiction" (Sort Of) - Page 3

"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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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke)
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
81
Rainer Maria Rilke
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Little Women
82
Louisa May Alcott
Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories (Truman Capote)
Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories
83
Truman Capote
The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
The Blind Assassin
84
Margaret Atwood
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces
85
John Kennedy Toole
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
86
Alexandre Dumas
Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
Les Misérables
87
Victor Hugo
The Virgin Suicides (Jeffrey Eugenides)
The Virgin Suicides
88
Jeffrey Eugenides
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar
89
Sylvia Plath
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
90
Albert Camus
The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
The Age of Innocence
91
Edith Wharton
84, Charing Cross Road (Helene Hanff)
84, Charing Cross Road
92
Helene Hanff
Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw)
Pygmalion
93
George Bernard Shaw
Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
Oliver Twist
94
Charles Dickens
Cold Mountain (Charles Frazier)
Cold Mountain
95
Charles Frazier
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs. Dalloway
96
Virginia Woolf
Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)
Cat's Cradle
97
Kurt Vonnegut
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
98
Charles Dickens
Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma
99
Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings
100
J.R.R. Tolkien
The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
The God of Small Things
101
Arundhati Roy
Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
Outlander
102
Diana Gabaldon
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco - Italy)
The Name of the Rose
103
Umberto Eco - Italy
Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood)
Oryx and Crake
104
Margaret Atwood
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
105
Gustave Flaubert
The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
The Road
106
Cormac McCarthy
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
107
Homer
The Blue Castle (L.M. Montgomery)
The Blue Castle
108
L.M. Montgomery
All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front
109
Erich Maria Remarque
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest
110
David Foster Wallace
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
111
George Eliot
The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad
112
Homer
All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)
All the Light We Cannot See
113
Anthony Doerr
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale
114
Margaret Atwood
The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
The Woman in White
115
Wilkie Collins
Veronika Decides to Die (Paulo Coelho)
Veronika Decides to Die
116
Paulo Coelho
The Prince of Tides (Pat Conroy)
The Prince of Tides
117
Pat Conroy
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
118
James Joyce
Cheaper by the Dozen (Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.,  Ernestine Gilbreth Carey)
Cheaper by the Dozen
119
Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
In Cold Blood
120
Truman Capote
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