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Very, Very Difficult Books

A while back I made a list of "difficult books that aren't that difficult" and I've come to rethink a number of inclusions on that list. They are quite challenging reads and so they appear here, among many other difficult books from various "difficult books" lists you should absolutely feel proud of having read. Good job, you!
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2666 (Roberto Bolaño)
2666
1
Roberto Bolaño
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
2
William Faulkner
Ada or Ardor (Vladimir Nabokov)
Ada or Ardor
3
Vladimir Nabokov
The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
The Age of Innocence
4
Edith Wharton
Almanac of the Dead (Leslie Marmon Silko)
Almanac of the Dead
5
Leslie Marmon Silko
Alphabetical Africa
Alphabetical Africa
6
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
7
Leo Tolstoy
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
Atlas Shrugged
8
Ayn Rand
Bad Behavior: Stories (Mary Gaitskill)
Bad Behavior: Stories
9
Mary Gaitskill
Battle Royale (Koushun Takami)
Battle Royale
10
Koushun Takami
Being and Time
Being and Time
11
Beloved (Ohio)
Beloved
12
Ohio
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
Bodies That Matter (Judith Butler)
Bodies That Matter
14
Judith Butler
A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
A Brief History of Time
15
Stephen Hawking
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
16
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
17
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Cantos (Ezra Pound)
The Cantos
18
Ezra Pound
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle
19
Franz Kafka
The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean Auel)
The Clan of the Cave Bear
20
Jean Auel
Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady
Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady
21
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
Cloud Atlas
22
David Mitchell
Coin Locker Babies
Coin Locker Babies
23
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (Lydia Davis)
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
24
Lydia Davis
The Conservationist
The Conservationist
25
The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
The Corrections
26
Jonathan Franzen
Cosmos
Cosmos
27
Cratylus (Plato)
Cratylus
28
Plato
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
29
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Critique of Pure Reason (Immanuel Kant)
Critique of Pure Reason
30
Immanuel Kant
The Demon
The Demon
31
Dhalgren (Samuel R. Delany)
Dhalgren
32
Samuel R. Delany
The Divine Comedy by Dante
The Divine Comedy by Dante
33
Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
Doctor Zhivago
34
Boris Pasternak
The English Patient
The English Patient
35
The Faerie Queene (Edmund Spenser)
The Faerie Queene
36
Edmund Spenser
The Female Man (Joanna Russ)
The Female Man
37
Joanna Russ
Finnegans Wake (James Joyce)
Finnegans Wake
38
James Joyce
Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
Foucault's Pendulum
39
Umberto Eco
Gadsby (Ernest Vincent Wright)
Gadsby
40
Ernest Vincent Wright
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