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Top 100 Most Difficult Novels - Page 2

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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The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
The Crying of Lot 49
41
Thomas Pynchon
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
42
Franz Kafka
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children
43
Salman Rushdie
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Nausea
44
Jean-Paul Sartre
Notes From the Underground (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Notes From the Underground
45
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2666 (Roberto Bolaño)
2666
46
Roberto Bolaño
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Pale Fire
47
Vladimir Nabokov
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
48
Charlotte Bronte
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
49
George Eliot
Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Tess of the D'urbervilles
50
Thomas Hardy
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
51
Charles Dickens
Dhalgren (Samuel R. Delany)
Dhalgren
52
Samuel R. Delany
The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Silmarillion
53
J.R.R. Tolkien
Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
Steppenwolf
54
Hermann Hesse
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
55
Ralph Ellison
My Name Is Red (Orhan Pamuk)
My Name Is Red
56
Orhan Pamuk
The Waves (Virginia Woolf)
The Waves
57
Virginia Woolf
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
58
Mary Shelley
V (Thomas Pynchon)
V
59
Thomas Pynchon
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
60
William Faulkner
Ada or Ardor (Vladimir Nabokov)
Ada or Ardor
61
Vladimir Nabokov
The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
The Fountainhead
62
Ayn Rand
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
Cloud Atlas
63
David Mitchell
The Glass Bead Game (Hermann Hesse)
The Glass Bead Game
64
Hermann Hesse
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises
65
Ernest Hemingway
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Little Women
66
Louisa May Alcott
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar
67
Sylvia Plath
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain
68
Thomas Mann
The Recognitions (William Gaddis)
The Recognitions
69
William Gaddis
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
70
Against the Day (Thomas Pynchon)
Against the Day
71
Thomas Pynchon
Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Vanity Fair
72
William Makepeace Thackeray
Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller
Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller
73
The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing)
The Golden Notebook
74
Doris Lessing
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
The Awakening
75
Kate Chopin
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
The Red and the Black
76
Stendhal
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind
77
Margaret Mitchell
Nostromo
Nostromo
78
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (Susanna Clarke)
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
79
Susanna Clarke
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula
80
Bram Stoker
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