What are some of the hardest books to read?

What are some of the hardest books to read? - Reddit

In a couple of Reddit threads, I found out that it is on par or even "harder" than such behemoths like Infinity Jest, Ulysses or Moby Dick.

The most challenging books you will ever read - Pan Macmillan

Classic challenging reads ... Don Quixote. by Miguel de Cervantes ... Have you tackled Europe's first 'modern' novel? Don Quixote, a profound yet ...

Most Difficult Novels (576 books) - Goodreads

Most Difficult Novels · 1. Ulysses. by James Joyce, Morris L. · 2. Finnegans Wake · 3. The Sound and the Fury · 4. Moby-Dick or, The Whale · 5. Gravity's ...

Notoriously Long & Difficult Books — a staff-created list from Daniel ...

Notoriously Long & Difficult Books Like this list · Moby-Dick, Or, The Whale · Les Misérables · Ulysses · Finnegans Wake · Infinite Jest · How To Read ...

The 25 Most Challenging Books You Will Ever Read - BuzzFeed

The 25 Most Challenging Books You Will Ever Read · 1. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (1939) · 2. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929).

What are some of the hardest books to finish reading (English)?

Finnegans Wake, though I'm not sure that's in English; it's in a Joycean dream language. Gravity's Rainbow is no joke either. Some people find Gaddis difficult.

50 Incredibly Tough Books for Extreme Readers - Flavorwire

Nightwood , Djuna Barnes ; Blood Meridian , Cormac McCarthy ; Moby-Dick , Herman Melville ; Infinite Jest , David Foster Wallace ; J R , William ...

Hard books to read | Speechify

The most difficult books to read in history · Ulysses by James Joyce · Moby Dick by Herman Melville · Finnegans Wake by James Joyce · War and Peace ...

What are the most difficult books to read and why? - Quora

For me it's Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. I think this could be read back to front, or upside down for that matter. I had to put it aside for a ...

The most difficult book you've ever read | Children's Fiction

The most difficult book i've read recently is Spindle's End by Robin Mckinley. It's just the way the words seem to wander, like a long staircase winding up and ...

The 5 Most Difficult Books Ever! (Fiction) - YouTube

https://amzn.to/41BPymT Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon ; https://amzn.to/3toq4wI The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner ; https://amzn.

Difficult Books | Ask MetaFilter

David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and Neal Stephenson's Anathem were the two most challenging books I've ever read. Gravity's Rainbow and ...

The World's Most Difficult Books? | World Literature Forum

Maybe another one is "The Anatomy of Melancholy" by Robert Burton. Have any of you ever tried to read it? Anthony Powell did, while working as ...

The Top 10 Most Difficult Books - Publishers Weekly

Being & Time by Martin Heidegger - Being & Time is probably the hardest book I've ever read. To contradict what I said vis-a-vis Joyce, I don't ...

On Reading Difficult Books - Writing at Large

To read difficult books is to go against the grain, to retrain your mind to deep, meaningful thought, to long stretches of concentration, to a higher level of ...

What's the most difficult book you've ever read (or tried to)? (Lacan ...

Just started Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner, and it's really hard to digest. The sentences are looooooooong winded and it's hard to ...

The Hardest Classics to Read - YouTube

I've done a video about some of the easiest and shortest classic books to read. Today, I'm tackling the toughest. Which classic books are ...

Why difficult books are worth reading - Beloved

What's more, reading difficult but great books is rarely just an intellectual exercise; if we invest our time and effort in them, they tend to ...

The 5 Most Difficult Books to Read - Early Bird Books

Bleak House · Charles Dickens ; War and Peace · Leo Tolstoy ; Moby Dick · Herman Melville ; Ulysses · James Joyce ; Gravity's Rainbow · Thomas Pynchon.

Ten toughest books to read - Hindustan Times

1. Finnegans Wake, James Joyce: Internet searches on “most difficult” and “hard to read” novels unfailingly recognize Finnegan's Wake as the most difficult ...