Goodreads’ 200 Most Difficult Novels https://www listchallenges.com/goodreads-200-most-difficult-novels Source: https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/1066?int=horrorwk_doodle 1. Ulysses 2. Finnegans Wake (James Joyce) 3. The Sound and the Fury 4. Moby-Dick 5. Gravity's Rainbow 6. War and Peace 7. One Hundred Years of Solitude 8. Crime and Punishment 9. Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) 10. Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace) 11. Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) 42. Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs) 13. The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) 14. Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) 15, Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov) 16. The Name of the Rose 17. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) 18. In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust) 19. A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens) 20. House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski) 21. Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco) 22. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) 23. Absalom, Absalom! 24. Mrs. Dalloway 25. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 26. A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess) 27. The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) 28. Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes) 29. To the Lighthouse 30. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) 31. The Stranger (Albert Camus) 32. Wuthering Heights 33. Beloved (Toni Morrison) 34, The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) 35. Blood Meridian 36. The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie) 37. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera) 38. The Man Without Qualities 39. The Count of Monte Cristo 40. The Trial (Franz Kafka) 41. The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon) 42. Love in the Time of Cholera 43. Midnight's Children 44, Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov) 45. Jane Eyre46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 2666 Notes From Underground (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre) Middlemarch Tess of the D'urbervilles The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien) Steppenwolf Bleak House V. Dhalgren My Name Is Red Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison) The Waves (Virginia Woolf) The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath) Frankenstein As | Lay Dying (William Faulkner) The Magic Mountain Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell) The Sun Also Rises The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand) The Glass Bead Game The Recognitions (William Gaddis) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) ‘Ada or Ardor (Vladimir Nabokov) The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson) Against the Day Oliver Twist Dracula Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Susanna Clarke) Mason and Dixon Molloy Vanity Fair Nostromo Gone With the Wind Tropic of Cancer Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak) The Iiluminatus! Trilogy The Awakening American Gods (Neil Gaiman) The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle The Golden Notebook The Red and the Black Trainspotting Animal Farm The Mill on the Floss The Halo Grower - An Illustrated Novel (Ryushiro Hindemith) Under the Volcano Jr (William Gaddis) Women in Love (D.H. Lawrence) Lord Jim The Magus (John Fowles)97. Neverwhere 98. The Ambassadors 99. The Unnamable (Samuel Beckett) 100. 101 102. 103. 104. 105. 106. 107. 108. 109. 110. 111 112. 113. 114, 115. 116. 117. 118. 119. 120. 121 122. 123, 124, 125. 126. 127. 128. 129. 130. 131 132. 133, 134. 135. 136. 137. 138. 139. 140. 141 142. 143, 144. 145. 146. 147. Bloomsday: The Bostoniad (David B. Lentz) Jealousy Paradise Stardust Shogun (James Clavell) Death Comes for the Archbishop The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov) Malone Dies Doctor Faustus Dune The Last of the Mohicans The Fellowship of the Ring Jude the Obscure Silas Maer The Executioner's Song The Tin Drum Hopscotch (Julio Cortazar) Sophie's World The Sot Weed Factor Riddley Walker The White Hotel The House of Seven Gables (Nathaniel Hawthorne) The 120 Days of Sodom The Castle (Franz Kafka) Rabbit, Run (John Updike) The Forsyte Saga The Death of Virgil Suttree Kafka on the Shore Time's Arrow Little Bee (Chris Cleave) The Game of Kings Money Billy Budd, Sailor Wise Blood ...And Ladies of the Club (Helen Hooven Santmeyer) Cryptonomicon The Pilgrim's Regress The Picture of Dorian Gray Germinal (Emile Zola) A Passage to India (E.M. Forster) Underworld (Don Delillo) Our Mutual Friend Shadow & Claw (Gene Wolfe) The Combinations (Louis Armand) Snow A Void Correction148. Last Exit to Brooklyn 149. The Autumn of the Patriarch (El Otofio Del Patriarca) 1975 150. Codex Obscura (Kane X. Faucher) 151. Sometimes a Great Notion 152. Eugene Onegin 153. Shikasta 154. Madame Bovary 155, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 156. The Third Policeman (Flan O'Brian) 157. Only Revolutions (Mark Z. Danielewski) 158. Disgrace 159. Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier) 160. The Lover 161. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 162. The Gunslinger (Stephen King) 163. The Island of the Day Before (Umberto Eco) 164. Coraline 165. The Winter King 166. Something Happened 167. A Brief History of Time 168. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ 169. A Fable 170. Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino) 171. Le Morte D'Arthur 172. Shirley 173. A House for Mr. Biswas 174. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) 175. The End of the Affair 176. The Return of the Native 177. Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady 178, She 179. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler 180. The Soft Machine (William S. Burroughs) 181. A Separate Peace 182. Demons 183. My Name Is Joe (Stefan Bourque) 184. Auto-Da-Fé (Elias Canetti) 185, Sword and Citadel (Gene Wolfe) 186. All the King's Men 187. Death Note, Vol. 12: Finis (Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata) 188. The Obscene Bird of Night 189. The Luminaries 190. Ratner's Star 191. Jerusalem (Alan Moore) 192. The Graveyard Book 193. Sea of Poppies 194, Hawaii 195, The Deerslayer (James Fenimore Cooper) 196. American Pastoral 197. Anansi Boys 198. We199. The Mists of Avalon 200. The General in His Labyrinth