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Goodreads "Best Literary Fiction" (Sort Of) - Page 2

"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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A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
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A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
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The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
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Perfume (Patrick Süskind)
Perfume (Patrick Süskind)
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
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Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
47
Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
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Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
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Deliverance (James Dickey)
Deliverance (James Dickey)
50
The Giver (Lois Lowry)
The Giver (Lois Lowry)
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The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
52
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra)
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra)
53
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
54
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
55
Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry)
Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry)
56
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
57
The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
58
The Help (Kathryn Stockett)
The Help (Kathryn Stockett)
59
Heidi (Johanna Spyri)
Heidi (Johanna Spyri)
60
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
61
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
62
Persuasion (Jane Austen)
Persuasion (Jane Austen)
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The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
64
The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
65
Sophie's Choice (William Styron)
Sophie's Choice (William Styron)
66
The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
67
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
68
Little House on the Prairie (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
Little House on the Prairie (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
69
The World According to Garp (John Irving)
The World According to Garp (John Irving)
70
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mary Ann Shaffer)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mary Ann Shaffer)
71
The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
72
The Thirteenth Tale (Diane Setterfield)
The Thirteenth Tale (Diane Setterfield)
73
Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
74
The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
75
The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
76
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
77
Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen)
Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen)
78
Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
79
The Once and Future King (T.H. White)
The Once and Future King (T.H. White)
80
The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
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