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Originally Posted by sir_pudding
It is the marketing category into which books which are neither "literary" or "genre" fiction are sold.
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In most of the bookstores that I visit, current literary fiction, and often whatever classic fiction they have, is on the same general fiction shelves as what you are calling "mainstream." For example, that's where I found Isabel Allende's Zorro and Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride, and also Jane Austen and Rudyard Kipling. There isn't really a marketing distinction. The distinction is that some of that fiction gets written about by literary critics, and some largely gets passed over in silence.