Difficult


Ulysses
Gravity’s Rainbow
Infinite Jest
The Sound and the Fury
House of Leaves
Crime and Punishment
The Odyssey
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
The Secret Garden
Pride and Prejudice
Finnegans Wake
One Hundred Years of Solitude
War and Peace
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
The Recognitions
Finnegans Wake by James JoyceUlysses by James JoycePhenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel KantGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT BOOKS
266 books — 372 voters

The Midnight Library by Matt HaigSlewfoot by BromFoods That Fight Pain by Neal D. BarnardElphie by Gregory MaguireBlack Woods Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey
Abandoned in 2025
84 books — 17 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Devil to Pay in the Backlands by João Guimarães RosaPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Libri Akro
33 books — 1 voter

Chase stared into the fire. That look, those eyes would haunt the mercenary for a while…occasionally, now and then, there was a kill that stayed with the mercenary, and he had just experienced another one of those.
Cade Mengler, The Companions

Garth Stein
It’s so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There’s presentation and there’s interpretation and they’re so dependent on each other it makes things very difficult.
Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

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