The books everyone tries to avoid reading
Explore the challenging classics everyone avoids reading—from Heidegger's dense *Being and Time* to Joyce's *Finnegans Wake*. Discover why these daunting books test even avid readers and why they’re worth the struggle.
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Julie, Or, The New Heloise
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A novel in which Rousseau reconceptualized the relationship of the individual to the collective and articulated a new moral paradigm
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Being and Time
by Martin Heidegger
One of the most important philosophical works of our time -- a work that has had tremendous influence on philosophy, literature, and psychology, and has literally changed the intellectual map of the modern world.
