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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
Pride and Prejudice
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1984 (George Orwell)
1984 (George Orwell)
3
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
4
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
5
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment
6
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
7
Lolita
Lolita
8
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
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9
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men
10
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo
11
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
12
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina
13
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
14
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov
15
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude
16
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
17
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
18
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
19
Moby Dick
Moby Dick
20
War and Peace
War and Peace
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21
Don Quixote
Don Quixote
22
The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea
23
The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis
24
East of Eden
East of Eden
25
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury
26
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
27
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front
28
The Name of the Rose
The Name of the Rose
29
Ulysses
Ulysses
30
Candide
Candide
31
The Master and Margerita
The Master and Margerita
32
David Copperfield
David Copperfield
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33
For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls
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To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse
35
Invisible Man
Invisible Man
36
The Plague
The Plague
37
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
38
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
39
Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart
40
Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited
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