As I Lay Dying by William FaulknerMolloy by Samuel Beckett
Most Difficult Novels
592 books — 2,047 voters
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyOn the Road by Jack KerouacInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1,318 books — 5,852 voters

Ulysses by James JoyceAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerBuddenbrooks by Thomas MannSwann’s Way by Marcel ProustWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Best Books From Before 1950
542 books — 135 voters