The books everyone tries to avoid reading
Discover the most commonly avoided books and why readers steer clear of them. Explore this list of challenging, controversial, or overhyped titles that many try to skip.
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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.
