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Difficult but Worth It

Why bother if the book is long, and dense, and tasking? Well some books are worth the effort … here is a brief list to get you started. Or have you already?
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An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
An American Tragedy
1
Theodore Dreiser
At Swim-Two-Birds (Flann O'Brien)
At Swim-Two-Birds
2
Flann O'Brien
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
3
Toni Morrison
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
4
Charles Dickens
Call It Sleep (Henry Roth)
Call It Sleep
5
Henry Roth
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
6
Joseph Heller
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange
7
Anthony Burgess
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
8
Miguel De Cervantes
Finnegans Wake (James Joyce)
Finnegans Wake
9
James Joyce
Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
Foucault's Pendulum
10
Umberto Eco
The Ginger Man
The Ginger Man
11
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow
12
Thomas Pynchon
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
13
Joseph Conrad
Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
Journey to the End of the Night
14
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
JR
JR
15
Life: A User's Manual (Georges Perec)
Life: A User's Manual
16
Georges Perec
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita
17
Mikhail Bulgakov
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnameable (Samuel Beckett)
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnameable
18
Samuel Beckett
Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
Naked Lunch
19
William S. Burroughs
Nightwood (Djuna Barnes)
Nightwood
20
Djuna Barnes
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
21
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Orfeo (Richard Powers)
Orfeo
22
Richard Powers
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Pale Fire
23
Vladimir Nabokov
The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)
The Satanic Verses
24
Salman Rushdie
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
25
William Faulkner
The Tin Drum (Gunter Grass)
The Tin Drum
26
Gunter Grass
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
27
Virginia Woolf
Trainspotting (Irvine Welsh)
Trainspotting
28
Irvine Welsh
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
29
Franz Kafka
Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)
Under the Volcano
30
Malcolm Lowry
Underworld (Don Delillo)
Underworld
31
Don Delillo
War and Peace by Graf Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by Graf Leo Tolstoy
32
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