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The 25 Most Challenging Books You Will Ever Read

If you've made it all the way through any of these, give yourself a pat on the back. Bonus points if you actually understood what you were reading.
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Finnegans Wake (James Joyce)
Finnegans Wake
1
James Joyce
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
2
William Faulkner
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
3
Geoffrey Chaucer
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
4
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow
5
Thomas Pynchon
The Female Man (Joanna Russ)
The Female Man
6
Joanna Russ
Being and Time
Being and Time
7
Our Lady of the Flowers
Our Lady of the Flowers
8
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest
9
David Foster Wallace
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
10
Herman Melville
Nightwood (Djuna Barnes)
Nightwood
11
Djuna Barnes
The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Silmarillion
12
J.R.R. Tolkien
Blood Meridian, Or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarth
Blood Meridian, Or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarth
13
The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
The Corrections
14
Jonathan Franzen
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain
15
Thomas Mann
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
Atlas Shrugged
16
Ayn Rand
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
17
James Joyce
Underworld (Don Delillo)
Underworld
18
Don Delillo
Simulacra and Simulation
Simulacra and Simulation
19
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle
20
Franz Kafka
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
21
William Faulkner
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
The Name of the Rose
22
Umberto Eco
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
Cloud Atlas
23
David Mitchell
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
24
Virginia Woolf
The Recognitions (William Gaddis)
The Recognitions
25
William Gaddis
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