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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 (James Joyce)
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The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury
3
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
4
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
5
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
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The Female Man (Joanna Russ)
The Female Man (Joanna Russ)
7
Being and Time
Being and Time
8
Our Lady of the Flowers
Our Lady of the Flowers
9
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
10
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
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Nightwood
Nightwood
12
The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien)
13
Blood Meridian, Or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarth
Blood Meridian, Or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarth
14
The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
15
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain
16
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
17
Ulysses
Ulysses
18
Underworld
Underworld
19
Simulacra and Simulation
Simulacra and Simulation
20
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
21
Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom!
22
The Name of the Rose
The Name of the Rose
23
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
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To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse
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The Recognitions
The Recognitions
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