8 Difficult Books and How to Read Them

Even after all these years of deep reading, there are still some books and authors I run into that pose a difficulty.

And different writers have different kinds of difficulty.

The difficulty of Proust is not the difficulty of Swift.

But if you value searching for the reader’s sublime (a difficult pleasure) and enjoy slow rereading as much as I do, you’ll love the prospect of a difficult challenge.

So here are eight writers that I still find difficult, and how I overcome their difficulty:

8 Writers and Books I Find Extremely Difficult to Read