Most Difficult Novels

1.
Ulysses
Ulysses 3.77 avg rating — 138,334 ratings
2.
Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake 3.68 avg rating — 13,450 ratings
3.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury 3.86 avg rating — 192,262 ratings
4.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,729 ratings
5.
Gravity’s Rainbow
Gravity’s Rainbow 4.01 avg rating — 46,889 ratings
6.
War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 356,949 ratings
7.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,398 ratings
8.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,069,854 ratings
9.
Infinite Jest
Infinite Jest 4.25 avg rating — 98,649 ratings
10.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness 3.43 avg rating — 545,682 ratings
11.
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text 3.46 avg rating — 96,890 ratings
12.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,182 ratings
13.
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov 4.38 avg rating — 369,455 ratings
14.
Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,118 ratings
15.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables 4.21 avg rating — 830,165 ratings
16.
In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time 4.34 avg rating — 13,694 ratings
17.
The Name of the Rose
The Name of the Rose 4.14 avg rating — 387,235 ratings
18.
House of Leaves
House of Leaves 4.09 avg rating — 191,417 ratings
19.
Catch-22
Catch-22 3.99 avg rating — 873,270 ratings
20.
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway 3.78 avg rating — 341,883 ratings
21.
Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged
by: Ayn Rand
3.69 avg rating — 402,764 ratings
22.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 3.64 avg rating — 160,982 ratings
23.
Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! 3.99 avg rating — 47,015 ratings
24.
A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 753,857 ratings
25.
Foucault’s Pendulum
Foucault’s Pendulum 3.91 avg rating — 73,671 ratings
26.
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities 3.88 avg rating — 996,354 ratings
27.
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse 3.81 avg rating — 207,153 ratings
28.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,004 ratings
29.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations 3.80 avg rating — 857,473 ratings
30.
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West 4.16 avg rating — 204,403 ratings
31.
The Stranger
The Stranger 4.03 avg rating — 1,315,198 ratings
32.
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 476,879 ratings
33.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,958,945 ratings
34.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter 3.44 avg rating — 901,282 ratings
35.
The Idiot
The Idiot 4.21 avg rating — 207,606 ratings
36.
The Satanic Verses
The Satanic Verses 3.71 avg rating — 70,295 ratings
37.
The Crying of Lot 49
The Crying of Lot 49 3.69 avg rating — 93,728 ratings
38.
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo 4.32 avg rating — 991,918 ratings
39.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 4.11 avg rating — 524,748 ratings
40.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,239 ratings
41.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,259,590 ratings
42.
Pale Fire
Pale Fire 4.17 avg rating — 55,878 ratings
43.
2666
2666 4.21 avg rating — 46,692 ratings
44.
Nausea
Nausea 3.93 avg rating — 134,139 ratings
45.
Midnight’s Children
Midnight’s Children 3.98 avg rating — 130,698 ratings
46.
The Silmarillion
The Silmarillion 4.03 avg rating — 324,983 ratings
47.
Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera 3.94 avg rating — 535,532 ratings
48.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 174,958 ratings
49.
V.
V. 3.97 avg rating — 24,777 ratings
50.
Frankenstein
Frankenstein 3.89 avg rating — 1,771,934 ratings
51.
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead 4.19 avg rating — 78,029 ratings
52.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tess of the D’Urbervilles 3.84 avg rating — 297,788 ratings
53.
As I Lay Dying
As I Lay Dying 3.72 avg rating — 182,448 ratings
54.
Bleak House
Bleak House 4.02 avg rating — 112,453 ratings
55.
Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf 4.13 avg rating — 206,715 ratings
56.
The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating — 1,153,489 ratings
57.
Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating — 198,717 ratings
58.
My Name Is Red
My Name Is Red 3.87 avg rating — 60,033 ratings
59.
Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas 4.01 avg rating — 262,697 ratings
60.
Dhalgren
Dhalgren 3.78 avg rating — 12,076 ratings
61.
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain 4.13 avg rating — 56,583 ratings
62.
The Man Without Qualities
The Man Without Qualities 4.19 avg rating — 7,190 ratings
63.
The Recognitions
The Recognitions 4.20 avg rating — 6,162 ratings
64.
The Waves
The Waves 4.14 avg rating — 51,023 ratings
65.
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises 3.79 avg rating — 481,977 ratings
66.
The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead
by: Ayn Rand
3.89 avg rating — 333,836 ratings
67.
Mason & Dixon
Mason & Dixon 4.13 avg rating — 12,151 ratings
68.
Dracula
Dracula 4.02 avg rating — 1,414,890 ratings
69.
Against the Day
Against the Day 4.05 avg rating — 10,019 ratings
70.
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind 4.31 avg rating — 1,257,966 ratings
71.
The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game 4.10 avg rating — 41,298 ratings
72.
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle 4.12 avg rating — 12,648 ratings
73.
Molloy
Molloy 4.04 avg rating — 9,530 ratings
74.
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
American Gods (American Gods, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 978,742 ratings
75.
Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1) 3.66 avg rating — 76,595 ratings
76.
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist 3.88 avg rating — 419,598 ratings
77.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 3,378,174 ratings
78.
The Golden Notebook
The Golden Notebook 3.77 avg rating — 24,227 ratings
79.
Nostromo
Nostromo 3.81 avg rating — 17,602 ratings
80.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 3.87 avg rating — 249,813 ratings
81.
Trainspotting (Mark Renton, #2)
Trainspotting (Mark Renton, #2) 4.11 avg rating — 174,899 ratings
82.
Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago 4.01 avg rating — 101,097 ratings
83.
Animal Farm
Animal Farm 4.01 avg rating — 4,355,583 ratings
84.
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair 3.81 avg rating — 131,955 ratings
85.
The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita 4.28 avg rating — 401,004 ratings
86.
The Awakening
The Awakening 3.69 avg rating — 222,535 ratings
87.
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) 4.40 avg rating — 3,050,562 ratings
88.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
The Illuminatus! Trilogy 4.01 avg rating — 16,030 ratings
89.
J R
J R 4.32 avg rating — 3,681 ratings
90.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 4.14 avg rating — 306,553 ratings
91.
Under the Volcano
Under the Volcano 3.76 avg rating — 26,359 ratings
92.
The Magus
The Magus 4.05 avg rating — 62,316 ratings
93.
The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black
by: Stendhal
3.86 avg rating — 81,040 ratings
94.
The Unnamable
The Unnamable really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,235 ratings
95.
The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss 3.83 avg rating — 58,097 ratings
96.
Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
Neverwhere (London Below, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 555,412 ratings
97.
The Ambassadors
The Ambassadors 3.63 avg rating — 12,857 ratings
98.
Lord Jim
Lord Jim 3.61 avg rating — 32,456 ratings
99.
The Halo Grower
The Halo Grower 4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings
100.
Women in Love
Women in Love 3.66 avg rating — 33,141 ratings
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