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The Most Baffling Books of All Time

According to several lists on Goodreads and Reddit, these are books a lot of people found confusing, perplexing, and utterly baffling.
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Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
1
Joseph Heller
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
2
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
3
Leo Tolstoy
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
4
Herman Melville
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
5
Franz Kafka
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
6
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
7
James Joyce
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
8
John Milton
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
Cloud Atlas
9
David Mitchell
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest
10
David Foster Wallace
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
11
William Faulkner
Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)
Cat's Cradle
12
Kurt Vonnegut
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow
13
Thomas Pynchon
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
Atlas Shrugged
14
Ayn Rand
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
The Metamorphosis
15
Franz Kafka
Finnegans Wake (James Joyce)
Finnegans Wake
16
James Joyce
The Historian (Elizabeth Kostova)
The Historian
17
Elizabeth Kostova
Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
Naked Lunch
18
William S. Burroughs
The Bible (Anonymous)
The Bible
19
Anonymous
Henry IV, Part I (William Shakespeare)
Henry IV, Part I
20
William Shakespeare
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
21
Geoffrey Chaucer
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Pale Fire
22
Vladimir Nabokov
Henry IV, Part II (Simon Callow)
Henry IV, Part II
23
Simon Callow
The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
The Crying of Lot 49
24
Thomas Pynchon
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
25
Haruki Murakami
The Magus (John Fowles)
The Magus
26
John Fowles
Dhalgren (Samuel R. Delany)
Dhalgren
27
Samuel R. Delany
Blink (Malcolm Gladwell)
Blink
28
Malcolm Gladwell
Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson)
Cryptonomicon
29
Neal Stephenson
The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
The Time Traveller's Wife
30
Audrey Niffenegger
The Book of the New Sun (Gene Wolfe)
The Book of the New Sun
31
Gene Wolfe
Libra (Don Delillo)
Libra
32
Don Delillo
House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
House of Leaves
33
Mark Z. Danielewski
Mumbo Jumbo
Mumbo Jumbo
34
Vertigo
Vertigo
35
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
36
Rant
Rant
37
City of Glass (Cassandra Clare)
City of Glass
38
Cassandra Clare
Pedro Paramo (Juan Rulfo)
Pedro Paramo
39
Juan Rulfo
The Most Wretched Thing Imaginable Or, Beneath the Burnt Umbrella (Stephen Moles)
The Most Wretched Thing Imaginable Or, Beneath the Burnt Umbrella
40
Stephen Moles
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