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Top 100 Most Difficult Novels

From Goodreads - 'Novels that made you work the hardest. Let's assume that you actually finished the book and felt that it was worth the effort.'
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Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
1
James Joyce
Finnegans Wake (James Joyce)
Finnegans Wake
2
James Joyce
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
3
William Faulkner
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby-Dick
4
Herman Melville
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow
5
Thomas Pynchon
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
6
Leo Tolstoy
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude
7
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
8
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
9
Joseph Conrad
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest
10
David Foster Wallace
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
11
Leo Tolstoy
The Naked Lunch
The Naked Lunch
12
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
13
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
Les Miserables
14
Victor Hugo
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
15
Vladimir Nabokov
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
Atlas Shrugged
16
Ayn Rand
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
The Name of the Rose
17
Umberto Eco
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
18
Marcel Proust
Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
Foucault's Pendulum
19
Umberto Eco
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
20
William Faulkner
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
21
Joseph Heller
Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs Dalloway
22
Virginia Woolf
House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
House of Leaves
23
Mark Z. Danielewski
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
24
Charles Dickens
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
25
James Joyce
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter
26
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
27
Charles Dickens
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange
28
Anthony Burgess
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
29
Miguel De Cervantes
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
30
Albert Camus
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
31
Virginia Woolf
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
32
The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)
The Satanic Verses
33
Salman Rushdie
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Idiot
34
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
35
Emily Bronte
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
Blood Meridian
36
Cormac McCarthy
Count of Monte Cristo (Alexander Dumas)
Count of Monte Cristo
37
Alexander Dumas
The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
The Man Without Qualities
38
Robert Musil
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
Love in the Time of Cholera
39
Gabriel García Márquez
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
40
Milan Kundera
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