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If you're looking for a book to read that will be an uphill climb, then these books might very well fit your bill. Whether it's the style, the substance, or both, these will prove challenging and satisfying upon completion. If completed. That's the word on the street anyway, through the giant grapevine that is academia's labyrinthine halls and the internet's many freeways. Be all that you can be.
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House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
House of Leaves
41
Mark Z. Danielewski
Ibid (Mark Dunn)
Ibid
42
Mark Dunn
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Italo Calvino)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
43
Italo Calvino
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
44
Marcel Proust
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest
45
David Foster Wallace
J R (William Gaddis)
J R
46
William Gaddis
Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)
Kafka on the Shore
47
Haruki Murakami
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
Leaves of Grass
48
Walt Whitman
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
Les Miserables
49
Victor Hugo
Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes)
Leviathan
50
Thomas Hobbes
Life: A User's Manual (Georges Perec)
Life: A User's Manual
51
Georges Perec
MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
MacBeth
52
William Shakespeare
Maps of Meaning (Jordan B Peterson)
Maps of Meaning
53
Jordan B Peterson
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
54
George Eliot
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children
55
Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
56
Herman Melville
Musashi (Eiji Yoshikawa)
Musashi
57
Eiji Yoshikawa
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Nausea
58
Jean-Paul Sartre
Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
Nicomachean Ethics
59
Aristotle
Nightwood (Djuna Barnes)
Nightwood
60
Djuna Barnes
Our Lady of the Flowers (Jean Genet)
Our Lady of the Flowers
61
Jean Genet
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Pale Fire
62
Vladimir Nabokov
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
63
John Milton
Phenomenology of Spirit (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)
Phenomenology of Spirit
64
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Rising Up and Rising Down (William T. Vollmann)
Rising Up and Rising Down
65
William T. Vollmann
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
Romeo and Juliet
66
William Shakespeare
Septology (Jon Fosse)
Septology
67
Jon Fosse
Simulacra and Simulation (Jean Baudrillard)
Simulacra and Simulation
68
Jean Baudrillard
Solenoid (Mircea Cărtărescu)
Solenoid
69
Mircea Cărtărescu
Songs of Innocence and Experience (William Blake)
Songs of Innocence and Experience
70
William Blake
Sophie's World (Jostein Gaarder)
Sophie's World
71
Jostein Gaarder
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Nick Boström)
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
72
Nick Boström
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Stuart Turton)
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
73
Stuart Turton
The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
The Adventures of Augie March
74
Saul Bellow
The Cantos (Ezra Pound)
The Cantos
75
Ezra Pound
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle
76
Franz Kafka
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 1-3 (Edward Gibbon)
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 1-3
77
Edward Gibbon
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
78
Dante Alighieri
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barberry)
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
79
Muriel Barberry
The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
The Fountainhead
80
Ayn Rand
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