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Goodreads "Best Literary Fiction" (Sort Of)

"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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avg. score: 89 of 528 (17%)
required scores: 1, 43, 68, 94, 132 

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To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
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Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
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Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
4
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
5
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
6
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
8
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
9
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
10
1984 (George Orwell)
1984 (George Orwell)
11
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
12
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
13
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
14
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
15
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
16
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
17
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
18
Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
19
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
20
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
21
Rebecca (Daphne Dumaurier)
Rebecca (Daphne Dumaurier)
22
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
23
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
24
The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
25
The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
26
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
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The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
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War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
29
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
30
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
31
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
32
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
33
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
34
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
35
The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
36
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
37
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
38
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
39
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (J.K. Rowling)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (J.K. Rowling)
40
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
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