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Goodreads' Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time

That's "literary" as in "not classifiable by genre." Sure, you can call "Pride and Prejudice" chick-lit, but that's probably not what Jane Austen was intending.
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Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
1
Jane Austen
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
2
George Orwell
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
3
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
4
Charlotte Bronte
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
5
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
6
Mark Twain
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
7
Vladimir Nabokov
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
8
Emily Bronte
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Of Mice and Men
9
John Steinbeck
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
10
Alexandre Dumas
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
11
Aldous Huxley
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
12
Leo Tolstoy
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
13
Joseph Heller
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
14
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
15
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
16
John Steinbeck
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five
17
Kurt Vonnegut
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
18
Charles Dickens
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
19
Herman Melville
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
20
Leo Tolstoy
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
21
Miguel De Cervantes
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea
22
Ernest Hemingway
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
The Metamorphosis
23
Franz Kafka
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
East of Eden
24
John Steinbeck
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
25
William Faulkner
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter
26
Nathaniel Hawthorne
All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front
27
Erich Maria Remarque
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
The Name of the Rose
28
Umberto Eco
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
29
James Joyce
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
30
Voltaire
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita
31
Mikhail Bulgakov
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
32
Charles Dickens
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
33
Ernest Hemingway
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
34
Virginia Woolf
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
35
Ralph Ellison
The Plague (Albert Camus)
The Plague
36
Albert Camus
Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Tess of the D'urbervilles
37
Thomas Hardy
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
38
Carson McCullers
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart
39
Chinua Achebe
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Brideshead Revisited
40
Evelyn Waugh
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