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Books Hard for the First Time, Easy the Second

Here on this list - We will be showing what books on this list are complicated to read for the first time, but differently compared for the second time, which would be easier.
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The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Hobbit
1
J.R.R. Tolkien
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
2
George Orwell
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
3
Joseph Heller
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
4
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
5
Charles Dickens
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
6
Leo Tolstoy
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
7
Toni Morrison
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
8
Leo Tolstoy
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula
9
Bram Stoker
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange
10
Anthony Burgess
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
11
Herman Melville
Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
Oliver Twist
12
Charles Dickens
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Fahrenheit 451
13
Ray Bradbury
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
14
Miguel De Cervantes
The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
The Road
15
Cormac McCarthy
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
Les Miserables
16
Victor Hugo
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
17
Virginia Woolf
Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
Flowers for Algernon
18
Daniel Keyes
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
19
George Eliot
The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
The Shadow of the Wind
20
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
House of Leaves
21
Mark Z. Danielewski
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises
22
Ernest Hemingway
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
23
Alexandre Dumas
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
Cloud Atlas
24
David Mitchell
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
25
Emily Brontë
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
26
Ken Kesey
The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
The Corrections
27
Jonathan Franzen
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
28
Charles Dickens
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
29
James Joyce
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
30
Jonathan Swift
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
31
Ernest Hemingway
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
The Name of the Rose
32
Umberto Eco
Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs Dalloway
33
Virginia Woolf
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Idiot
34
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R.Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings
35
J.R.R.Tolkien
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
36
Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies
37
William Golding
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest
38
David Foster Wallace
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
East of Eden
39
John Steinbeck
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Pale Fire
40
Vladimir Nabokov
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