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Dalkey Archive Press: Important Works With a Reputation for Being "Difficult"

Is a challenge like this more an inspiration or a deterrent to reading the works? The list is a companion to my recently published "Dalkey Archive Press: Overlooked Works of Fiction" (follow the link). Surprisingly (to me at least) there is very little overlap between the works in the 2 challenges.
The source publishers "asked our academic and bookstore advisors across the country to respond to a number of questions. The following list [was] compiled from their responses." (Dalkey Archive Press)
Alphabetical by author's surname.
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Great Expectations (Kathy Acker)
Great Expectations (Kathy Acker)
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Letters (John Barth)
Letters (John Barth)
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Labyrinths (Jorge Luis Borges)
Labyrinths (Jorge Luis Borges)
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The Death of Virgil (Hermann Broch)
The Death of Virgil (Hermann Broch)
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The Anatomy of Melancholy (Robert Burton)
The Anatomy of Melancholy (Robert Burton)
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Three Trapped Tigers (Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Trans. Suzanne Levine)
Three Trapped Tigers (Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Trans. Suzanne Levine)
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Auto-Da-Fé (Elias Canetti)
Auto-Da-Fé (Elias Canetti)
8
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc.
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc.
9
62: A Model Kit (Julio Cortazar)
62: A Model Kit (Julio Cortazar)
10
Palinuro of Mexico (Fernando Del Paso)
Palinuro of Mexico (Fernando Del Paso)
11
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
12
The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa)
The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa)
13
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
14
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
15
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
16
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
17
E. Luminata (Diamela Eltit)
E. Luminata (Diamela Eltit)
18
A Fan's Notes (Frederick Exley)
A Fan's Notes (Frederick Exley)
19
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
20
Go Down, Moses (William Faulkner)
Go Down, Moses (William Faulkner)
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The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
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Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
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The Flower Beneath the Foot (Ronald Firbank)
The Flower Beneath the Foot (Ronald Firbank)
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Terra Nostra
Terra Nostra
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JR (William Gaddis)
JR (William Gaddis)
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The Recognitions (William Gaddis)
The Recognitions (William Gaddis)
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The Tunnel (William H. Gass)
The Tunnel (William H. Gass)
28
Makbara (Juan Goytisolo)
Makbara (Juan Goytisolo)
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The Tin Drum (Gunter Grass)
The Tin Drum (Gunter Grass)
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The Blind Owl (Sadegh Hedayat)
The Blind Owl (Sadegh Hedayat)
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A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
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The Wings of the Dove (Henry James)
The Wings of the Dove (Henry James)
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Finnegans Wake (James Joyce)
Finnegans Wake (James Joyce)
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Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
35
Raintree County
Raintree County
36
The Same Embrace (Michael Lowenthal)
The Same Embrace (Michael Lowenthal)
37
Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)
Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)
38
Ancient Evenings
Ancient Evenings
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Take Five (D. Keith Mano)
Take Five (D. Keith Mano)
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
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