REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS

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Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake 3.68 avg rating — 13,450 ratings
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Ulysses
Ulysses 3.77 avg rating — 138,363 ratings
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Phenomenology of Spirit
Phenomenology of Spirit 3.96 avg rating — 19,991 ratings
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Gravity’s Rainbow
Gravity’s Rainbow 4.01 avg rating — 46,905 ratings
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Critique of Pure Reason
Critique of Pure Reason 3.96 avg rating — 40,928 ratings
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Being and Time
Being and Time 4.05 avg rating — 27,070 ratings
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Infinite Jest
Infinite Jest 4.25 avg rating — 98,673 ratings
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Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! 3.99 avg rating — 47,021 ratings
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The Cantos
The Cantos 3.92 avg rating — 5,373 ratings
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The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury 3.86 avg rating — 192,294 ratings
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 4.10 avg rating — 21,777 ratings
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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text 3.46 avg rating — 96,907 ratings
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Being and Nothingness
Being and Nothingness 3.99 avg rating — 34,135 ratings
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Of Grammatology
Of Grammatology 3.97 avg rating — 5,290 ratings
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 3.64 avg rating — 161,014 ratings
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Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia 4.17 avg rating — 8,359 ratings
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The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
The World as Will and Representation, Volume I 4.22 avg rating — 10,850 ratings
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To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse 3.81 avg rating — 207,222 ratings
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso 4.08 avg rating — 167,126 ratings
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None 4.07 avg rating — 169,558 ratings
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Faust
Faust 3.90 avg rating — 48,400 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid 4.29 avg rating — 51,685 ratings
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The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov 4.38 avg rating — 369,618 ratings
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,862 ratings
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Écrits
Écrits 4.03 avg rating — 3,355 ratings
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In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time 4.34 avg rating — 13,696 ratings
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The Interpretation of Dreams
The Interpretation of Dreams 3.84 avg rating — 79,573 ratings
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The Crying of Lot 49
The Crying of Lot 49 3.69 avg rating — 93,759 ratings
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The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by: Homer
3.82 avg rating — 1,156,822 ratings
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War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 357,030 ratings
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Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness 3.43 avg rating — 545,814 ratings
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The Man Without Qualities
The Man Without Qualities 4.19 avg rating — 7,191 ratings
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King Lear
King Lear 3.91 avg rating — 232,719 ratings
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Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,072 ratings
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Frankenstein
Frankenstein 3.89 avg rating — 1,772,596 ratings
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V.
V. 3.97 avg rating — 24,778 ratings
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The Iliad
The Iliad
by: Homer
3.92 avg rating — 494,747 ratings
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Les Misérables
Les Misérables 4.21 avg rating — 830,300 ratings
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Beyond Good and Evil
Beyond Good and Evil 4.03 avg rating — 109,338 ratings
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Mason & Dixon
Mason & Dixon 4.13 avg rating — 12,154 ratings
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Under the Volcano
Under the Volcano 3.76 avg rating — 26,364 ratings
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A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia 4.33 avg rating — 6,898 ratings
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Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago 4.01 avg rating — 101,122 ratings
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Difference and Repetition
Difference and Repetition 4.26 avg rating — 3,776 ratings
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Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost 3.85 avg rating — 177,973 ratings
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The Wasteland & Four Quartets
The Wasteland & Four Quartets 4.27 avg rating — 549 ratings
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On the Road
On the Road 3.61 avg rating — 438,565 ratings
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Ethics
Ethics 4.10 avg rating — 20,279 ratings
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Can You Spot the Spotted Dog ?
Can You Spot the Spotted Dog ? 3.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged
by: Ayn Rand
3.69 avg rating — 402,819 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 4.02 avg rating — 15,257 ratings
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Writing and Difference
Writing and Difference really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,883 ratings
53.
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language 4.11 avg rating — 7,327 ratings
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Ficciones
Ficciones 4.40 avg rating — 75,872 ratings
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Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,437 ratings
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鍋匠、裁縫、士兵、間諜 (卡拉三部曲, #1)
鍋匠、裁縫、士兵、間諜 (卡拉三部曲, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 102,519 ratings
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Glas
Glas 4.17 avg rating — 206 ratings
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The Society of the Spectacle
The Society of the Spectacle 4.03 avg rating — 22,638 ratings
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El maestro y Margarita
El maestro y Margarita 4.28 avg rating — 401,164 ratings
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House of Leaves
House of Leaves 4.09 avg rating — 191,518 ratings
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Le Morte D'arthur
Le Morte D'arthur 3.92 avg rating — 38,982 ratings
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Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy 3.77 avg rating — 35,925 ratings
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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Gargantua and Pantagruel 3.65 avg rating — 16,002 ratings
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The Recognitions
The Recognitions 4.20 avg rating — 6,166 ratings
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The Faerie Queene
The Faerie Queene 3.58 avg rating — 17,147 ratings
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The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales 3.52 avg rating — 234,643 ratings
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Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot 3.84 avg rating — 217,134 ratings
68.
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1) 3.67 avg rating — 2,809,161 ratings
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Foundation (Foundation, #1)
Foundation (Foundation, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 580,984 ratings
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Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway 3.78 avg rating — 342,010 ratings
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The Philosophy of History
The Philosophy of History 3.81 avg rating — 3,713 ratings
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Pensées
Pensées 3.94 avg rating — 14,065 ratings
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Posterior Analytics (Clarendon Aristotle Series)
Posterior Analytics (Clarendon Aristotle Series)
by: Aristotle
3.83 avg rating — 254 ratings
74.
2666
2666 4.21 avg rating — 46,708 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray 4.13 avg rating — 1,783,346 ratings
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Bloomsday: The Bostoniad
Bloomsday: The Bostoniad 4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,447 ratings
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Metapolitics
Metapolitics 3.82 avg rating — 420 ratings
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The Enneads
The Enneads
by: Plotinus
4.07 avg rating — 3,124 ratings
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The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy 4.11 avg rating — 1,841 ratings
81.
Journey to the End of the Night
Journey to the End of the Night 4.19 avg rating — 46,258 ratings
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The Aeneid
The Aeneid
by: Virgil
3.87 avg rating — 139,155 ratings
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J R
J R 4.32 avg rating — 3,682 ratings
84.
Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit
Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit
by: John Lyly
2.78 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The Guide for the Perplexed
The Guide for the Perplexed 4.07 avg rating — 1,284 ratings
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The Man in the High Castle
The Man in the High Castle 3.59 avg rating — 229,273 ratings
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The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening 4.09 avg rating — 11,762 ratings
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Margins of Philosophy
Margins of Philosophy 4.09 avg rating — 1,354 ratings
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Life: A User's Manual
Life: A User's Manual 4.18 avg rating — 9,837 ratings
90.
Creative Evolution
Creative Evolution 4.10 avg rating — 1,428 ratings
90.
Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas 4.01 avg rating — 262,759 ratings
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An Instance of the Fingerpost
An Instance of the Fingerpost 3.94 avg rating — 26,661 ratings
93.
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling 4.25 avg rating — 240 ratings
94.
Gilead (Gilead, #1)
Gilead (Gilead, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 121,034 ratings
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Discourse on Method
Discourse on Method 3.72 avg rating — 24,483 ratings
96.
Principia Mathematica
Principia Mathematica 3.98 avg rating — 213 ratings
96.
Beowulf
Beowulf
by: Unknown
3.50 avg rating — 338,062 ratings
98.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,260,174 ratings
99.
Fear and Trembling
Fear and Trembling really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29,963 ratings
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Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
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