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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
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Kathy Acker
Letters (John Barth)
Letters
2
John Barth
Labyrinths (Jorge Luis Borges)
Labyrinths
3
Jorge Luis Borges
The Death of Virgil (Hermann Broch)
The Death of Virgil
4
Hermann Broch
The Anatomy of Melancholy (Robert Burton)
The Anatomy of Melancholy
5
Robert Burton
Three Trapped Tigers (Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Trans. Suzanne Levine)
Three Trapped Tigers
6
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Trans. Suzanne Levine
Auto-Da-Fé (Elias Canetti)
Auto-Da-Fé
7
Elias Canetti
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc.
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc.
8
62: A Model Kit (Julio Cortazar)
62: A Model Kit
9
Julio Cortazar
Palinuro of Mexico (Fernando Del Paso)
Palinuro of Mexico
10
Fernando Del Paso
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
11
Charles Dickens
The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa)
The Leopard
12
Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
13
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
14
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
15
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
16
George Eliot
E. Luminata (Diamela Eltit)
E. Luminata
17
Diamela Eltit
A Fan's Notes (Frederick Exley)
A Fan's Notes
18
Frederick Exley
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
19
William Faulkner
Go Down, Moses (William Faulkner)
Go Down, Moses
20
William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
21
William Faulkner
Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
Tom Jones
22
Henry Fielding
The Flower Beneath the Foot (Ronald Firbank)
The Flower Beneath the Foot
23
Ronald Firbank
Terra Nostra
Terra Nostra
24
JR (William Gaddis)
JR
25
William Gaddis
The Recognitions (William Gaddis)
The Recognitions
26
William Gaddis
The Tunnel (William H. Gass)
The Tunnel
27
William H. Gass
Makbara (Juan Goytisolo)
Makbara
28
Juan Goytisolo
The Tin Drum (Gunter Grass)
The Tin Drum
29
Gunter Grass
The Blind Owl (Sadegh Hedayat)
The Blind Owl
30
Sadegh Hedayat
A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
A Prayer for Owen Meany
31
John Irving
The Wings of the Dove (Henry James)
The Wings of the Dove
32
Henry James
Finnegans Wake (James Joyce)
Finnegans Wake
33
James Joyce
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
34
James Joyce
Raintree County
Raintree County
35
The Same Embrace (Michael Lowenthal)
The Same Embrace
36
Michael Lowenthal
Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)
Under the Volcano
37
Malcolm Lowry
Ancient Evenings
Ancient Evenings
38
Take Five (D. Keith Mano)
Take Five
39
D. Keith Mano
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
40
Carson McCullers
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