DIFFICULT BUT REWARDING

1.
Ulysses
Ulysses 3.77 avg rating — 138,345 ratings
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The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury 3.86 avg rating — 192,272 ratings
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The Man Without Qualities
The Man Without Qualities 4.19 avg rating — 7,191 ratings
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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West 4.16 avg rating — 204,474 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,625 ratings
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,070,013 ratings
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Catch-22
Catch-22 3.99 avg rating — 873,336 ratings
8.
In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time 4.34 avg rating — 13,694 ratings
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Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable
Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable 4.28 avg rating — 9,327 ratings
10.
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov 4.38 avg rating — 369,529 ratings
11.
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings 4.44 avg rating — 33,252 ratings
12.
Foucault’s Pendulum
Foucault’s Pendulum 3.91 avg rating — 73,676 ratings
13.
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain 4.13 avg rating — 56,594 ratings
14.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,323 ratings
15.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge 3.93 avg rating — 9,667 ratings
16.
Gravity’s Rainbow
Gravity’s Rainbow 4.01 avg rating — 46,895 ratings
17.
Duino Elegies
Duino Elegies 4.39 avg rating — 9,806 ratings
18.
The Recognitions
The Recognitions 4.20 avg rating — 6,163 ratings
19.
Infinite Jest
Infinite Jest 4.25 avg rating — 98,659 ratings
20.
War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 356,983 ratings
21.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,287 ratings
22.
Hamlet
Hamlet 4.03 avg rating — 1,020,157 ratings
23.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath 4.02 avg rating — 971,599 ratings
24.
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway 3.78 avg rating — 341,949 ratings
25.
Life: A User's Manual
Life: A User's Manual 4.18 avg rating — 9,836 ratings
26.
Four Quartets
Four Quartets 4.37 avg rating — 19,408 ratings
27.
Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating — 198,732 ratings
28.
The Waves
The Waves 4.14 avg rating — 51,042 ratings
29.
The Book of Margins
The Book of Margins 4.43 avg rating — 89 ratings
30.
Correction
Correction 4.26 avg rating — 3,568 ratings
31.
Mason & Dixon
Mason & Dixon 4.13 avg rating — 12,150 ratings
31.
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Confederacy of Dunces 3.89 avg rating — 291,783 ratings
33.
Hopscotch
Hopscotch 4.20 avg rating — 47,316 ratings
34.
Orlando
Orlando 3.87 avg rating — 109,446 ratings
35.
The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game 4.10 avg rating — 41,302 ratings
36.
On Being Blue
On Being Blue 3.84 avg rating — 1,982 ratings
37.
The Park
The Park 3.42 avg rating — 62 ratings
38.
The Cantos
The Cantos 3.92 avg rating — 5,373 ratings
38.
Project for a Revolution in New York
Project for a Revolution in New York 3.79 avg rating — 334 ratings
40.
The White Hotel
The White Hotel 3.85 avg rating — 5,070 ratings
41.
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men 3.84 avg rating — 31,109 ratings
42.
The Book Of Nightmares
The Book Of Nightmares 4.21 avg rating — 2,492 ratings
42.
Ice
Ice 3.65 avg rating — 11,090 ratings
44.
The Icarus Girl
The Icarus Girl 3.64 avg rating — 5,433 ratings
45.
The Museum of Eterna's Novel (The First Good Novel)
The Museum of Eterna's Novel (The First Good Novel) 3.92 avg rating — 604 ratings
46.
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle 4.12 avg rating — 12,649 ratings
47.
The Death of Virgil
The Death of Virgil 4.14 avg rating — 1,716 ratings
48.
The Age of Wire and String
The Age of Wire and String 3.70 avg rating — 1,727 ratings
49.
Mulligan Stew
Mulligan Stew 3.82 avg rating — 551 ratings
50.
Under the Volcano
Under the Volcano 3.76 avg rating — 26,361 ratings
51.
Poems of Paul Celan
Poems of Paul Celan 4.33 avg rating — 3,852 ratings
52.
Petersburg
Petersburg 3.97 avg rating — 5,600 ratings
53.
Collected Poems
Collected Poems 4.21 avg rating — 1,215 ratings
54.
Faust, First Part
Faust, First Part 3.83 avg rating — 84,125 ratings
55.
Là-Bas
Là-Bas 3.96 avg rating — 4,582 ratings
56.
The Balcony
The Balcony 3.81 avg rating — 3,332 ratings
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Paradiso
Paradiso 4.10 avg rating — 951 ratings
58.
Aurélia and Other Writings
Aurélia and Other Writings 4.02 avg rating — 959 ratings
59.
Tree of Smoke
Tree of Smoke 3.60 avg rating — 14,876 ratings
60.
Arcadia
Arcadia 4.13 avg rating — 23,782 ratings
61.
The Changing Light at Sandover
The Changing Light at Sandover 4.25 avg rating — 509 ratings
62.
Montano's Malady
Montano's Malady 3.82 avg rating — 1,370 ratings
63.
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman 3.73 avg rating — 3,950 ratings
63.
Long Walk to Freedom
Long Walk to Freedom 4.36 avg rating — 92,323 ratings
63.
A Perfect Spy
A Perfect Spy 3.99 avg rating — 22,492 ratings
66.
Paterson
Paterson 4.13 avg rating — 3,201 ratings
66.
The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun, #1)
The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 33,789 ratings
66.
John Brown
John Brown 4.32 avg rating — 748 ratings
69.
The Bridge
The Bridge 4.09 avg rating — 1,112 ratings
69.
Late Nights on Air
Late Nights on Air 3.58 avg rating — 12,532 ratings
69.
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality 3.98 avg rating — 31,321 ratings
69.
Shadow & Claw (The Book of the New Sun, #1-2)
Shadow & Claw (The Book of the New Sun, #1-2) 4.04 avg rating — 21,841 ratings
73.
The Complete English Poems
The Complete English Poems 4.15 avg rating — 9,888 ratings
73.
Owls Do Cry
Owls Do Cry 3.96 avg rating — 2,016 ratings
73.
Three Day Road
Three Day Road 4.28 avg rating — 25,560 ratings
73.
Sword & Citadel (The Book of the New Sun, #3-4)
Sword & Citadel (The Book of the New Sun, #3-4) 4.35 avg rating — 14,061 ratings
73.
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
The Yiddish Policemen's Union 3.72 avg rating — 79,302 ratings
78.
Tinkers
Tinkers 3.41 avg rating — 37,933 ratings
78.
The Urth of the New Sun (The Book of the New Sun, #5)
The Urth of the New Sun (The Book of the New Sun, #5) 4.06 avg rating — 8,648 ratings
78.
The Most Wretched Thing Imaginable or, Beneath the Burnt Umbrella
The Most Wretched Thing Imaginable or, Beneath the Burnt Umbrella 3.75 avg rating — 20 ratings
78.
My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue
My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue 4.20 avg rating — 373 ratings
78.
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 145,375 ratings
83.
Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.26 avg rating — 630 ratings
83.
Pilgrimage 1 (Pilgrimage, #1-3)
Pilgrimage 1 (Pilgrimage, #1-3) 3.58 avg rating — 506 ratings
83.
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients 4.10 avg rating — 9,120 ratings
83.
Cloudsplitter
Cloudsplitter 3.93 avg rating — 5,097 ratings
87.
Anabasis
Anabasis 3.86 avg rating — 360 ratings
87.
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress 4.19 avg rating — 31,588 ratings
87.
...And Ladies of the Club
...And Ladies of the Club 4.15 avg rating — 13,116 ratings
90.
New Math
New Math 4.16 avg rating — 32 ratings
90.
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples 4.09 avg rating — 922 ratings
90.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 241,456 ratings
93.
Personal Memoirs: Ulysses S. Grant
Personal Memoirs: Ulysses S. Grant 4.13 avg rating — 9,497 ratings
94.
Dream I Tell You
Dream I Tell You 3.51 avg rating — 95 ratings
94.
The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones 3.86 avg rating — 2,439,528 ratings
94.
The Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
The Memoirs of General William T. Sherman 4.17 avg rating — 2,203 ratings
97.
Inferno
Inferno 4.03 avg rating — 200,508 ratings
98.
Men of Maize: The Modernist Epic of the Guatemalan Indians
Men of Maize: The Modernist Epic of the Guatemalan Indians 3.99 avg rating — 1,150 ratings
98.
Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator
Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator 4.15 avg rating — 1,680 ratings
100.
Christ on the Rue Jacob
Christ on the Rue Jacob 3.93 avg rating — 45 ratings
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