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Most Difficult Books - Page 2

The hardest books to read according to a survey on Goodreads. I do not agree with all of them- Alice in Wonderland and Chronicles of Narnia are pretty readable! If you want a few that are worth the difficulty, just ask!
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Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
41
Charlotte Bronte
2666 (Roberto Bolano)
2666
42
Roberto Bolano
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Pale Fire
43
Vladimir Nabokov
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Nausea
44
Jean-Paul Sartre
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children
45
Salman Rushdie
The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Silmarillion
46
J.R.R. Tolkien
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
Love in the Time of Cholera
47
Gabriel García Márquez
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
48
George Eliot
V (Thomas Pynchon)
V
49
Thomas Pynchon
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
50
Mary Shelley
Notes From the Underground (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Notes From the Underground
51
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Tess of the D'urbervilles
52
Thomas Hardy
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
53
Charles Dickens
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar
54
Sylvia Plath
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
55
William Faulkner
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
56
Ralph Ellison
My Name Is Red (Orhan Pamuk)
My Name Is Red
57
Orhan Pamuk
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
Cloud Atlas
58
David Mitchell
Dhalgren (Samuel R. Delany)
Dhalgren
59
Samuel R. Delany
Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
Steppenwolf
60
Hermann Hesse
The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
The Man Without Qualities
61
Robert Musil
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain
62
Thomas Mann
The Recognitions (William Gaddis)
The Recognitions
63
William Gaddis
The Waves (Virginia Woolf)
The Waves
64
Virginia Woolf
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises
65
Ernest Hemingway
The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
The Fountainhead
66
Ayn Rand
The Glass Bead Game (Hermann Hesse)
The Glass Bead Game
67
Hermann Hesse
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula
68
Bram Stoker
Against the Day (Thomas Pynchon)
Against the Day
69
Thomas Pynchon
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind
70
Margaret Mitchell
Mason and Dixon
Mason and Dixon
71
Ada or Ardor (Vladimir Nabokov)
Ada or Ardor
72
Vladimir Nabokov
Molloy (Samuel Beckett)
Molloy
73
Samuel Beckett
American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
American Gods
74
Neil Gaiman
Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller)
Tropic of Cancer
75
Henry Miller
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
76
Stieg Larsson
The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing)
The Golden Notebook
77
Doris Lessing
Nostromo
Nostromo
78
Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
Oliver Twist
79
Charles Dickens
Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
Doctor Zhivago
80
Boris Pasternak
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