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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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The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad
81
Homer
The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson)
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
82
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
The Interrogative Mood (Padgett Powell)
The Interrogative Mood
83
Padgett Powell
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Stephen Pinker)
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
84
Stephen Pinker
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain
85
Thomas Mann
The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
The Man Without Qualities
86
Robert Musil
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (William Blake)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
87
William Blake
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita
88
Mikhail Bulgakov
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (Heinlein)
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
89
Heinlein
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
90
Homer
The Recognitions (William Gaddis)
The Recognitions
91
William Gaddis
The Republic (Plato)
The Republic
92
Plato
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer)
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
93
William L. Shirer
The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)
The Satanic Verses
94
Salman Rushdie
The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Silmarillion
95
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
96
William Faulkner
The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
The Tale of Genji
97
Murasaki Shikibu
The Three-Body Problem (Liu Cixin)
The Three-Body Problem
98
Liu Cixin
The Tunnel (William Gass)
The Tunnel
99
William Gass
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
100
Milan Kundera
The Unfortunates (B.S. Johnson)
The Unfortunates
101
B.S. Johnson
The Wasteland and Other Poems (Eliot)
The Wasteland and Other Poems
102
Eliot
The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)
The Wealth of Nations
103
Adam Smith
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
104
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
105
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
106
James Joyce
Underworld (Don Delillo)
Underworld
107
Don Delillo
V (Thomas Pynchon)
V
108
Thomas Pynchon
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
109
Leo Tolstoy
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
110
Emily Brontë
XX (Rian Hughes)
XX
111
Rian Hughes
Zone (Mathias Énard)
Zone
112
Mathias Énard
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