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Goodreads' Top 100 Literary Novels of All Time - Page 2

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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Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
Their Eyes Were Watching God
41
Zora Neale Hurston
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
42
J.D. Salinger
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces
43
John Kennedy Toole
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
Blood Meridian
44
Cormac McCarthy
Blindness (José Saramago)
Blindness
45
José Saramago
I, Claudius (Robert Graves)
I, Claudius
46
Robert Graves
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest
47
David Foster Wallace
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
The Awakening
48
Kate Chopin
Sons and Lovers (D.H. Lawrence)
Sons and Lovers
49
D.H. Lawrence
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
50
Marcel Proust
Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Vanity Fair
51
William Makepeace Thackeray
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
52
George Eliot
The Tin Drum (Günter Grass)
The Tin Drum
53
Günter Grass
All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren)
All the King's Men
54
Robert Penn Warren
Light in August (William Faulkner)
Light in August
55
William Faulkner
My Antonia (Willa Cather)
My Antonia
56
Willa Cather
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain
57
Thomas Mann
Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges)
Ficciones
58
Jorge Luis Borges
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Pale Fire
59
Vladimir Nabokov
The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)
The House of Mirth
60
Edith Wharton
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
61
Nikolai Gogol
The History of Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
The History of Tom Jones
62
Henry Fielding
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Laurence Sterne)
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
63
Laurence Sterne
Red Harvest
Red Harvest
64
Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller)
Tropic of Cancer
65
Henry Miller
Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Cancer Ward
66
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Gilead (Marilynne Robinson)
Gilead
67
Marilynne Robinson
Cat's Eye
Cat's Eye
68
V by Thomas Pynchon
V by Thomas Pynchon
69
An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
An American Tragedy
70
Theodore Dreiser
The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
The Adventures of Augie March
71
Saul Bellow
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
Death Comes for the Archbishop
72
Willa Cather
The Alexandria Quartet (Lawrence Durrell)
The Alexandria Quartet
73
Lawrence Durrell
Lost Illusions (Honoré De Balzac)
Lost Illusions
74
Honoré De Balzac
Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)
Under the Volcano
75
Malcolm Lowry
The Forstye Saga
The Forstye Saga
76
Rabbit Angstrom Series
Rabbit Angstrom Series
77
Adam Bede (George Eliot)
Adam Bede
78
George Eliot
Therese Raquin (Emile Zola)
Therese Raquin
79
Emile Zola
Finnegan's Wake
Finnegan's Wake
80
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