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Goodreads' 200 Most Difficult Novels - Page 2

"Novels that made you work the hardest. Let's assume that you actually finished the book and felt that it was worth the effort."
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The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
The Crying of Lot 49
41
Thomas Pynchon
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
Love in the Time of Cholera
42
Gabriel García Márquez
Midnight's Children
Midnight's Children
43
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Pale Fire
44
Vladimir Nabokov
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Jane Eyre
45
Charlotte Brontë
2666 (Roberto Bolaño)
2666
46
Roberto Bolaño
Notes From Underground (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Notes From Underground
47
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Nausea
48
Jean-Paul Sartre
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
49
George Eliot
Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Tess of the D'urbervilles
50
Thomas Hardy
The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Silmarillion
51
J.R.R. Tolkien
Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
Steppenwolf
52
Hermann Hesse
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
53
Charles Dickens
V.
V.
54
Dhalgren (Samuel R. Delany)
Dhalgren
55
Samuel R. Delany
My Name Is Red (Orhan Pamuk)
My Name Is Red
56
Orhan Pamuk
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
57
Ralph Ellison
The Waves (Virginia Woolf)
The Waves
58
Virginia Woolf
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar
59
Sylvia Plath
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
60
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
61
William Faulkner
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain
62
Thomas Mann
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
Cloud Atlas
63
David Mitchell
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises
64
Ernest Hemingway
The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
The Fountainhead
65
Ayn Rand
The Glass Bead Game (Hermann Hesse)
The Glass Bead Game
66
Hermann Hesse
The Recognitions (William Gaddis)
The Recognitions
67
William Gaddis
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Little Women
68
Louisa May Alcott
Ada or Ardor (Vladimir Nabokov)
Ada or Ardor
69
Vladimir Nabokov
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
70
Stieg Larsson
Against the Day (Thomas Pynchon)
Against the Day
71
Thomas Pynchon
Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
Oliver Twist
72
Charles Dickens
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula
73
Bram Stoker
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Susanna Clarke)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
74
Susanna Clarke
Mason and Dixon
Mason and Dixon
75
Molloy (Samuel Beckett)
Molloy
76
Samuel Beckett
Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Vanity Fair
77
William Makepeace Thackeray
Nostromo
Nostromo
78
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind
79
Margaret Mitchell
Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller)
Tropic of Cancer
80
Henry Miller
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