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The Retired English Teacher's Random List of Favorite Literary Fiction

Not all of the mainstream literary fiction ( as opposed to category AKA genre fiction) that I like, but a good representation of the kinds of books that I will come back to and read again.
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Affliction (Russell Banks)
Affliction (Russell Banks)
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All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)
All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
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Beautiful Losers (Leonard Cohen)
Beautiful Losers (Leonard Cohen)
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Billiards at Half-Past Nine (Heinrich Böll)
Billiards at Half-Past Nine (Heinrich Böll)
6
Breakfast of Champions
Breakfast of Champions
7
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Thornton Wilder)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Thornton Wilder)
8
Bright Lights, Big City (Jay McInerney)
Bright Lights, Big City (Jay McInerney)
9
A Burnt Out Case (Greene)
A Burnt Out Case (Greene)
10
Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
11
A Clockwork Orange (Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange (Burgess)
12
Cloud Cuckoo Land (Anthony Doerr)
Cloud Cuckoo Land (Anthony Doerr)
13
Collected Stories of Heinrich Böll (Böll)
Collected Stories of Heinrich Böll (Böll)
14
The Comedians (Greene)
The Comedians (Greene)
15
Company (Samuel Beckett)
Company (Samuel Beckett)
16
The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989 (Samuel Beckett)
The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989 (Samuel Beckett)
17
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
18
Crazy in Berlin (Thomas Berger)
Crazy in Berlin (Thomas Berger)
19
The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
20
The Dance of Genghis Cohn (Gary)
The Dance of Genghis Cohn (Gary)
21
Darkness at Noon (Koestler)
Darkness at Noon (Koestler)
22
Dead Souls (Gogol)
Dead Souls (Gogol)
23
The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories (Nikolai Gogol)
The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories (Nikolai Gogol)
24
The Doctor Is Sick (Anthony Burgess)
The Doctor Is Sick (Anthony Burgess)
25
Dubliners (Joyce)
Dubliners (Joyce)
26
Elmer Gantry (Sinclair Lewis)
Elmer Gantry (Sinclair Lewis)
27
Empire Falls (Richard Russo)
Empire Falls (Richard Russo)
28
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
29
The First Circle (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
The First Circle (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
31
Foucault'S Pendulum
Foucault'S Pendulum
32
The Glass Hotel (Emily St. John Mandel)
The Glass Hotel (Emily St. John Mandel)
33
The Go-Between (L.P. Hartley)
The Go-Between (L.P. Hartley)
34
The Good Soldier Švejk (Jaroslav Hašek)
The Good Soldier Švejk (Jaroslav Hašek)
35
Goodbye, Columbus (Philip Roth)
Goodbye, Columbus (Philip Roth)
36
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
37
The Greek Passion (Kazantzakis)
The Greek Passion (Kazantzakis)
38
Group Portrait With Lady (Bõll)
Group Portrait With Lady (Bõll)
39
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
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The Heart of the Matter (Greene)
The Heart of the Matter (Greene)
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