Goodreads' Most Difficult Novels

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  1. 1.
    Ulysses
    by James Joyce

  2. 2.
    Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
    by James Joyce

  3. 3.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  4. 4.
    Moby-Dick (Vintage Classics)

  5. 5.
    War and Peace (Vintage Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  6. 6.
    Crime and Punishment (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  7. 7.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  8. 8.
    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph Conrad

  9. 9.
    Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Thomas Pynchon

  10. 10.
    Anna Karenina (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  11. 11.
    Atlas Shrugged
    by Ayn Rand

  12. 12.
    Les misérables
    by Victor Hugo

  13. 13.
    Infinite Jest
    by David Foster Wallace

  14. 14.
    Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
    by William S. Burroughs

  15. 15.
    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  16. 17.
    Lolita, 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  17. 18.
    Absalom, Absalom! (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

  18. 19.
    In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete)
    by Marcel Proust

  19. 20.
    House of Leaves
    by Mark Z. Danielewski

  20. 21.
    Mrs. Dalloway (Annotated)
    by Virginia Woolf

  21. 22.
    The Scarlet Letter (Bantam Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  22. 23.
    A Tale of Two Cities
    by Charles Dickens

  23. 24.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus

  24. 25.
    The Canterbury Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

  25. 26.
    Foucault's Pendulum
    by Umberto Eco

  26. 27.
    Great Expectations
    by Charles Dickens

  27. 28.
    A Clockwork Orange (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Anthony Burgess

  28. 29.
    The Idiot
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  29. 30.
    Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Joseph Heller

  30. 31.
    Beloved (Everyman's Library)
    by Toni Morrison

  31. 32.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

  32. 34.
    The Satanic Verses: A Novel
    by Salman Rushdie

  33. 35.
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel
    by Milan Kundera

  34. 36.
    To the Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf

  35. 37.
    Dhalgren
    by Samuel R. Delany

  36. 38.
    Nausea
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

  37. 39.
    Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
    by Cormac McCarthy

  38. 40.
    Bleak House (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
    by Charles Dickens

  39. 41.
    The Iliad
    by Homer

  40. 42.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes

  41. 43.
    Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  42. 45.
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    by Roberto Bolaño. Translated by Natasha Wimmer

  43. 46.
    Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  44. 47.
    The Divine Comedy

  45. 48.
    Pale Fire (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  46. 49.
    Wuthering Heights (Bantam Classics)
    by Emily Brontë

  47. 50.
    Middlemarch (Penguin Hardback Classics)
    by George Eliot

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