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Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as challenging)
avg rating 3.76 — 139,132 ratings — published 1922
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.25 — 102,718 ratings — published 1996
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.02 — 48,923 ratings — published 1973
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as challenging)
avg rating 3.86 — 197,692 ratings — published 1929
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as challenging)
avg rating 3.87 — 956,689 ratings — published 1955
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.39 — 395,380 ratings — published 1880
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.17 — 369,546 ratings — published 1869
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,119,069 ratings — published 1967
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.00 — 777,695 ratings — published 1962
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as challenging)
avg rating 3.57 — 621,563 ratings — published 1851
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as challenging)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,101,522 ratings — published 1932
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.21 — 221,981 ratings — published 1869
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as challenging)
avg rating 3.81 — 218,161 ratings — published 1927
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.09 — 204,381 ratings — published 2000
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.10 — 435,043 ratings — published 2020
A Brief History of Seven Killings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as challenging)
avg rating 3.89 — 38,453 ratings — published 2014
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as challenging)
avg rating 3.97 — 228,360 ratings — published -400
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.14 — 398,920 ratings — published 1980
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as challenging)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,195,099 ratings — published 1847
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.16 — 979,863 ratings — published 2006
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,561,278 ratings — published 1948
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,184,324 ratings — published 1954
Finnegans Wake (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as challenging)
avg rating 3.68 — 13,710 ratings — published 1939
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.01 — 270,421 ratings — published 2004
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as challenging)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,465,135 ratings — published 1915
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,104,608 ratings — published 1866
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.00 — 55,541 ratings — published 2006
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.10 — 943,176 ratings — published 1878
The Waves (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.14 — 54,624 ratings — published 1931
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as challenging)
avg rating 3.64 — 165,565 ratings — published 1916
Milkman (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as challenging)
avg rating 3.53 — 71,594 ratings — published 2018
Cryptonomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.23 — 117,395 ratings — published 1999
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,873,578 ratings — published 1813
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as challenging)
avg rating 3.77 — 362,242 ratings — published 1925
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as challenging)
avg rating 3.92 — 203,650 ratings — published 1952
Foucault’s Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as challenging)
avg rating 3.91 — 75,369 ratings — published 1988
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,352,448 ratings — published 1847
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as challenging)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,989,263 ratings — published 1925
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as challenging)
avg rating 3.98 — 497,724 ratings — published 1987
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as challenging)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,844,869 ratings — published 1590
Mere Christianity (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.37 — 462,812 ratings — published 1952
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.40 — 80,549 ratings — published 1944
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.08 — 543,126 ratings — published 1995
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.09 — 174,739 ratings — published 1320
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as challenging)
avg rating 3.69 — 408,727 ratings — published 1957
The Savage Detectives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.18 — 53,796 ratings — published 1998
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,650,898 ratings — published 1965
Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as challenging)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,011 ratings — published 2000
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as challenging)
avg rating 4.14 — 494,656 ratings — published 2022
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as challenging)
avg rating 3.95 — 283,445 ratings — published 1993
“Can you go cazy without knowing you're crazy?”
― Deadly Little Lies
― Deadly Little Lies
“When we feel the cards are stacked against us, and we have to confront the arresting questions of our walks of life, we may happen to face up to an “apocalypse.” When we meet head-on a disclosure of a “new” truth and come to terms with the destruction of our “old” reality, the disparity might be very challenging, but conceivably liberating as well. ("Looking for the unexpected" )”
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