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Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as difficult)
avg rating 3.76 — 141,536 ratings — published 1922
Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as difficult)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,111 ratings — published 1973
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as difficult)
avg rating 4.25 — 105,666 ratings — published 1996
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as difficult)
avg rating 3.86 — 201,285 ratings — published 1929
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as difficult)
avg rating 4.09 — 212,506 ratings — published 2000
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,153,218 ratings — published 1866
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as difficult)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,279,389 ratings — published -800
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 634,179 ratings — published 1851
The Secret Garden (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 1,336,386 ratings — published 1911
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,998,966 ratings — published 1813
Finnegans Wake (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 13,892 ratings — published 1939
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,147,409 ratings — published 1967
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as difficult)
avg rating 4.17 — 377,312 ratings — published 1868
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 244,060 ratings — published 1985
The Recognitions (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 6,642 ratings — published 1955
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 976,829 ratings — published 1955
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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avg rating 4.13 — 3,866,182 ratings — published 2010
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,621,532 ratings — published 1937
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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avg rating 4.62 — 4,225,295 ratings — published 2007
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,287,250 ratings — published 1847
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 348,718 ratings — published 1977
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 225,544 ratings — published 1927
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 6,130,754 ratings — published 1925
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 101,801 ratings — published 1965
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.43 — 574,595 ratings — published 1899
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,548,416 ratings — published 1915
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 413,276 ratings — published 1879
The Iliad (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 535,271 ratings — published -750
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 791,320 ratings — published 1962
The Trial (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 420,452 ratings — published 1925
A Little Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 1,006,169 ratings — published 2015
2666 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 52,152 ratings — published 2004
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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avg rating 4.41 — 3,233,148 ratings — published 1954
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,323,777 ratings — published 1947
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
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avg rating 3.68 — 7,500,798 ratings — published 2005
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 187,991 ratings — published 1667
Foucault’s Pendulum (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 76,470 ratings — published 1988
Pale Fire (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 60,255 ratings — published 1962
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,079,843 ratings — published 1846
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,309,466 ratings — published 1963
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,995,619 ratings — published 1890
The Idiot (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 231,242 ratings — published 1869
Middlemarch (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 187,039 ratings — published 1872
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,409,307 ratings — published 1847
Speak (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 644,008 ratings — published 1999
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 274,851 ratings — published 2004
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 411,809 ratings — published 1957
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 309,026 ratings — published 1891
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 385,683 ratings — published 1892
Satantango (Apocalypse Quartet, #1)
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avg rating 4.04 — 18,716 ratings — published 1985
“If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first."
This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.”
― Eat That Frog! 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.”
― Eat That Frog! 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
“Over the years I would learn that sharing money with love and in solidarity is a delicate process, far more difficult than hoarding it. But until we live in a more equal world, sharing (responsibly) is the best you can do.”
― Mother Mary Comes to Me
― Mother Mary Comes to Me
