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Really, Really Difficult Books

"List here those books that you found difficult even to apprehend, let alone comprehend."
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The Phenomenology of Spirit (Georg Hegel)
The Phenomenology of Spirit
1
Georg Hegel
Being and Time
Being and Time
2
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
3
Critique of Pure Reason (Immanuel Kant)
Critique of Pure Reason
4
Immanuel Kant
Cantos
Cantos
5
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari)
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
6
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
7
James Joyce
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow
8
Thomas Pynchon
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
9
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The World as Will and Representation (Arthur Schopenhauer)
The World as Will and Representation
10
Arthur Schopenhauer
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
11
William Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
12
William Faulkner
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
13
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Of Grammatology
Of Grammatology
14
Society of the Spectacle
Society of the Spectacle
15
The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
The Man Without Qualities
16
Robert Musil
Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
Naked Lunch
17
William S. Burroughs
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
18
James Joyce
The Divine Comedy (Dante)
The Divine Comedy
19
Dante
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest
20
David Foster Wallace
Écrits (Jacques Lacan)
Écrits
21
Jacques Lacan
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
22
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Being and Nothingness (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Being and Nothingness
23
Jean-Paul Sartre
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
24
Friedrich Nietzsche
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
25
Leo Tolstoy
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
King Lear
26
William Shakespeare
The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
The Crying of Lot 49
27
Thomas Pynchon
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
28
Virginia Woolf
Moby Dick, Or, the Whale by Herman Melville
Moby Dick, Or, the Whale by Herman Melville
29
The Interpretation of Dreams (Sigmund Freud)
The Interpretation of Dreams
30
Sigmund Freud
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
31
Homer
A Thousand Plateaus
A Thousand Plateaus
32
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas R. Hofstadter)
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
33
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Difference and Repetition (Gilles Deleuze)
Difference and Repetition
34
Gilles Deleuze
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
35
Miguel De Cervantes
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
36
Joseph Conrad
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
37
Marcel Proust
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
38
Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
Les Misérables
39
Victor Hugo
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