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Top 100 Most Difficult Novels
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From Goodreads - '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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Ulysses
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Finnegans Wake (James Joyce)
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The Sound and the Fury
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Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
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Gravity's Rainbow
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War and Peace
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Heart of Darkness
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Infinite Jest
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Anna Karenina
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The Naked Lunch
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The Brothers Karamazov
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Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
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Lolita
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Atlas Shrugged
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The Name of the Rose
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In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
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Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
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Absalom, Absalom!
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Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
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Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
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House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
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A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
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Great Expectations
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A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
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Don Quixote
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The Stranger (Albert Camus)
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To the Lighthouse
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Beloved, by Toni Morrison
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The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)
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The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
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Wuthering Heights
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Blood Meridian
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Count of Monte Cristo
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The Man Without Qualities
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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