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3. Ulysses by James Joyce
While considered one of the most revered works in modernist literature, at going on 1,000 pages you'll be forgiven for giving up on following Leopold Bloom's chronicle of life in Dublin set over one day. Even if you don't, it's guaranteed that it'll take you much longer than one day to digest its style of a wandering stream of consciousness.
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