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title: "The Most Difficult Books You'll Ever Read"  
description: "If you've made it all the way through any of these, give yourself a pat on the back. Bonus points if you actually understood what you were reading."  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-10-20  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1369/the-most-difficult-books-you-ll-ever-read  
category: "book and writing"  
tags: ["Books", "difficult books", "reading", "Book"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# The Most Difficult Books You'll Ever Read

![The Most Difficult Books You ll Ever Read](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/1f9babc2-2f66-4359-aeaa-82019232ff02/images/f0ceaef5-38f8-4d37-afd6-7b21aa767e41.jpeg) ![The Most Difficult Books You ll Ever Read](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/1f9babc2-2f66-4359-aeaa-82019232ff02/images/ccae1b0f-06f9-4b20-8f22-4dfc1293dd2b.jpeg) Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (1939) ![The Most Difficult Books You ll Ever Read](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/1f9babc2-2f66-4359-aeaa-82019232ff02/images/049a0f55-cd9b-4a56-95fb-c1b2433a5d10.jpeg) The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929) ![The Most Difficult Books You ll Ever Read](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/1f9babc2-2f66-4359-aeaa-82019232ff02/images/f7e7f95d-a89e-4d44-8a33-a5a7f01d8575.jpeg) The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (14th Century) ![The Most Difficult Books You ll Ever Read](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/1f9babc2-2f66-4359-aeaa-82019232ff02/images/1c0bdee2-5bfd-4954-b558-3dbf830d8333.jpeg) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967) ![The Most Difficult Books You ll Ever Read](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/1f9babc2-2f66-4359-aeaa-82019232ff02/images/4cc923d4-5636-43ed-9e2e-31a159af39d5.jpeg) Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973) ![The Most Difficult Books You ll Ever Read](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/1f9babc2-2f66-4359-aeaa-82019232ff02/images/eec137a6-3d2e-4ba5-ae48-ef3dd2448773.jpeg) The Female Man by Joanna Russ (1975) ![The Most Difficult Books You ll Ever Read](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/1f9babc2-2f66-4359-aeaa-82019232ff02/images/232cb95c-2e1d-48cc-8010-1a0482f00407.jpeg) Being and Time by Martin Heidegger (1927)

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