200 Most Difficult Books
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Foucault’s Pendulum (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 75,849 ratings — published 1988
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.44 — 933,550 ratings — published 1850
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 166,810 ratings — published 1916
Great Expectations (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 887,057 ratings — published 1861
Absalom, Absalom! (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 48,860 ratings — published 1936
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 221,303 ratings — published 1927
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 367,556 ratings — published 1925
Catch-22 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 897,718 ratings — published 1961
Don Quixote (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 311,574 ratings — published 1605
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 784,179 ratings — published 1962
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 70,225 ratings — published 1913
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 402,379 ratings — published 1980
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 1,025,870 ratings — published 1859
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 966,231 ratings — published 1955
House of Leaves (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 208,079 ratings — published 2000
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 410,183 ratings — published 1957
War and Peace (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 373,237 ratings — published 1869
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,122,252 ratings — published 1866
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 401,839 ratings — published 1880
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,131,298 ratings — published 1967
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.43 — 568,918 ratings — published 1899
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 953,270 ratings — published 1878
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 199,319 ratings — published 1929
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 49,488 ratings — published 1973
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.46 — 99,973 ratings — published 1959
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 627,553 ratings — published 1851
Ulysses (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 140,281 ratings — published 1922
Finnegans Wake (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 13,796 ratings — published 1939
