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Top 10 Flavorwire’s 50 Tough Books for Extreme Readers
| Ranking | Items |
|---|---|
| #1 | The Silmarillion |
| #2 | The Canterbury Tales |
| #3 | The Divine Comedy by Dante |
| #4 | Moby Dick (Herman Melville) |
| #5 | Heart of Darkness |
| #6 | A Tale of a Tub |
| #7 | War and Peace |
| #8 | To the Lighthouse |
| #9 | The Sound and the Fury |
| #10 | Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs |
Flavorwire’s 50 Tough Books for Extreme Readers
| Rank | Items |
|---|---|
| #1 | The Silmarillion |
| #2 | The Canterbury Tales |
| #3 | The Divine Comedy by Dante |
| #4 | Moby Dick (Herman Melville) |
| #5 | Heart of Darkness |
| #6 | A Tale of a Tub |
| #7 | War and Peace |
| #8 | To the Lighthouse |
| #9 | The Sound and the Fury |
| #10 | Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs |
| #11 | Blood Meridian |
| #12 | Finnegans |
| #13 | The Faerie Queene |
| #14 | The Making of Americans (Gertrude Stein) |
| #15 | House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski) |
| #16 | Pet Sematary |
| #17 | Infinite Jest |
| #18 | Gravity’s Rainbow |
| #19 | The Year of Magical Thinking |
| #20 | Underworld (Don Delillo) |
| #21 | Trainspotting |
| #22 | The Castle (Franz Kafka) |
| #23 | Tristram Shandy |
| #24 | Geek Love (Katherine Dunn) |
| #25 | Sophie’s Choice |
| #26 | 2666 |
| #27 | Hopscotch |
| #28 | Battle Royale (Koushun Takami) |
| #29 | Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo |
| #30 | Dhalgren |
| #31 | Out |
| #32 | The Painted Bird |
| #33 | Nightwood |
| #34 | Gulag Archipelago |
| #35 | Clarissa |
| #36 | Wittgenstein’s Mistress |
| #37 | JR |
| #38 | Bad Behavior |
| #39 | Coin Locker Babies |
| #40 | Almanac of the Dead (Leslie Marmon Silko) |
| #41 | The Conservationist |
| #42 | The Tunnel |
| #43 | The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis |
| #44 | In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust) |
| #45 | Cosmos |
| #46 | The Demon |
| #47 | The Royal Family |
| #48 | The Unfortunates |
| #49 | Alphabetical Africa |
| #50 | Tampa |