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The Literary Fiction Top 100 — Best Literary Fiction Books

The most acclaimed literary fiction — Pulitzer winners, Booker Prize champions, and novels that define their era.

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To Kill a Mockingbird
1
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
1960
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
2
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1967
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The Great Gatsby
3
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1925
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1984
4
1984
George Orwell
1949
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Beloved
5
Beloved
Toni Morrison
1987
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The Catcher in the Rye
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The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
1951
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Brave New World
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
1932
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Crime and Punishment
8
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1866
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Anna Karenina
9
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
1878
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Middlemarch
10
Middlemarch
George Eliot
1871
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The Brothers Karamazov
11
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1880
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Ulysses
12
Ulysses
James Joyce
1922
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Lolita
13
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
1955
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The Sound and the Fury
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The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
1929
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Invisible Man
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
1952
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
1937
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Mrs Dalloway
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Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
1925
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To the Lighthouse
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To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
1927
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A Room with a View
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A Room with a View
E.M. Forster
1908
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Howard's End
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Howard's End
E.M. Forster
1910
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The Grapes of Wrath
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
1939
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Of Mice and Men
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Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
1937
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East of Eden
23
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
1952
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The Old Man and the Sea
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The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
1952
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A Farewell to Arms
25
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
1929
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The Sun Also Rises
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The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
1926
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Midnight's Children
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Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
1981
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The Remains of the Day
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The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
1989
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Never Let Me Go
29
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
2005
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Klara and the Sun
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Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
2021
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Wolf Hall
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Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
2009
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The Road
32
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
2006
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Blood Meridian
33
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
1985
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All the Pretty Horses
34
All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy
1992
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Americanah
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Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2013
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Half of a Yellow Sun
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Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2006
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Purple Hibiscus
37
Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2003
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The Corrections
38
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
2001
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Freedom
39
Freedom
Jonathan Franzen
2010
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White Noise
40
White Noise
Don DeLillo
1985
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
41
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz
2007
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
42
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan
2010
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The Goldfinch
43
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
2013
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The Secret History
44
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
1992
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A Little Life
45
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
2015
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Normal People
46
Normal People
Sally Rooney
2018
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Conversations with Friends
47
Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney
2017
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
48
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
2019
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The Sympathizer
49
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
2015
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Lincoln in the Bardo
50
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
2017
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