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Complex, Difficult Books That Are Worth the Effort It Takes to Read Them - Page 2

Our maverick English Teacher and contrarian comes up with 60 works of fiction whose range of ideas, complexity of structure, and use of language all contribute to their reputations of being difficult. All of them, however, are , in the compiler's opinion, well worth the effort it takes to read them. To those wondering why "Finnegan's Wake" and "In Search of Lost Time" are absent, our compiler can only say that, in his humble opinion, they weren't worth it. Mea culpa.
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The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel
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The Painted Bird
The Painted Bird
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Ragtime (E.L. Doctorow)
Ragtime (E.L. Doctorow)
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The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black
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A Soldier of the Great War (Mark Helprin)
A Soldier of the Great War (Mark Helprin)
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Stand on Zanzibar (John Brunner)
Stand on Zanzibar (John Brunner)
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Starmaker (Olaf Stapledon)
Starmaker (Olaf Stapledon)
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Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein)
Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein)
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Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnameable
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnameable
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The Tin Drum (Gunter Grass)
The Tin Drum (Gunter Grass)
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The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
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Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
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Underworld
Underworld
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V (Thomas Pynchon)
V (Thomas Pynchon)
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War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
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White Noise
White Noise
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Winters Tale
Winters Tale
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Women in Love (D. H. Lawrence)
Women in Love (D. H. Lawrence)
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
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Zorba the Greek (Kazantzakis)
Zorba the Greek (Kazantzakis)
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