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Your long-winded retired Aussie academic brings you yet another updated and lengthened book challenge from a credible source. At least 1.7 million votes have been cast so far.
As described by Amy Boal at Ranker: "There are some books that you will just never finish, no matter how many times you try. Maybe the authors of these hardest books to read are laughing at all of us right now, or maybe they didn't even mean to make the book so tough, but here we all are, slogging through these book swamps, trying to figure out what the hell James Joyce is even on about with Ulysses."
Do you (vehemently) disagree with any of the choices?
Note: It isn't clear from the source list whether item 167 should be 'Night Watch' by Sergei Lukyanenko or 'Night Watch' by Terry Pratchett.
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Mockingjay (Suzanne Collins)
Mockingjay
81
Suzanne Collins
Republic (Plato)
Republic
82
Plato
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer)
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
83
William L. Shirer
Lost Horizon (James Hilton)
Lost Horizon
84
James Hilton
The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
The Road
85
Cormac McCarthy
Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins)
Catching Fire
86
Suzanne Collins
The Giver (Lois Lowry)
The Giver
87
Lois Lowry
The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt)
The Goldfinch
88
Donna Tartt
Plato: Complete Works (Plato)
Plato: Complete Works
89
Plato
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
90
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (J.K. Rowling)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
91
J.K. Rowling
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces
92
John Kennedy Toole
Billy Budd, Sailor (Herman Melville)
Billy Budd, Sailor
93
Herman Melville
A Song of Ice and Fire (George R. R. Martin)
A Song of Ice and Fire
94
George R. R. Martin
The Old Curiosity Shop (Charles Dickens)
The Old Curiosity Shop
95
Charles Dickens
Tales From Watership Down (Richard Adams)
Tales From Watership Down
96
Richard Adams
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest
97
David Foster Wallace
The Plague (Albert Camus)
The Plague
98
Albert Camus
Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs Dalloway
99
Virginia Woolf
The Casual Vacancy (J.K. Rowling)
The Casual Vacancy
100
J.K. Rowling
The Gulag Archipelago (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
The Gulag Archipelago
101
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Hamilton (Ron Chernow)
Alexander Hamilton
102
Ron Chernow
The Historian (Elizabeth Kostova)
The Historian
103
Elizabeth Kostova
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Idiot
104
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
Naked Lunch
105
William S. Burroughs
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
106
Friedrich Nietzsche
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow
107
Thomas Pynchon
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
108
William Faulkner
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (David Wroblewski)
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
109
David Wroblewski
The Audacity of Hope (Barack Obama)
The Audacity of Hope
110
Barack Obama
Trump: The Art of the Deal (Donald Trump)
Trump: The Art of the Deal
111
Donald Trump
Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
Foucault's Pendulum
112
Umberto Eco
Simone De Beauvoir's the Second Sex (Ruth Evans)
Simone De Beauvoir's the Second Sex
113
Ruth Evans
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
114
Virginia Woolf
The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
The Corrections
115
Jonathan Franzen
The Tin Drum (Gunter Grass)
The Tin Drum
116
Gunter Grass
Still Life With Woodpecker (Tom Robbins)
Still Life With Woodpecker
117
Tom Robbins
Light in August (William Faulkner)
Light in August
118
William Faulkner
Being and Nothingness (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Being and Nothingness
119
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Second Sex (Simone De Beauvoir)
The Second Sex
120
Simone De Beauvoir
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