The books that have consistently challenged me.

It feels like it's very in the world of A Clockwork Orange, which I would also probably put on this list. That was a pretty hard book for me to read.

I read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? I loved that. Was able to get in with that.

This book destroyed me because it was really difficult stream of consciousness, all about the feminine experience, lost me, destroyed my brain, and was really hard for me to read.

This is done well, definitely. I like this book. I think because it is so in your face and just this behemoth of words coming to you that you do feel a little bit like, "Whoa."

My favorite Shakespeare is King Lear. I think that's a great story. I can get into that book.

I read this for my book club, so I was actively trying to pay attention to this and actively really, really making a concerted effort to have like a guaranteed experience with this, but I just couldn't care that much.

You immerse yourself in the stories, yes, but it does, I don't know if it feels gratuitous that it's there. I personally have a really hard time with books that don't have punctuation, don't have proper grammar.

I tried to listen to that on audiobook this year. Maybe that wasn't the particular medium that I should have done with this book, but I did find it really hard. I was lost in these worlds.

And I think it's it's due for a reread. I've definitely lost a lot of the traits of this book, but I do remember loving it when I read it.

It's a fantastic read. I do suggest it. It's not one of my favorite books, but I think if you're looking to get into specifically beautiful Latin American magical realism, this is a like granddaddy of that movement

I became incredibly interested in Jean Rhys because I happened to pick up Smile, Please, an unfinished autobiography and I like Jean Rhys as a woman. She had a very interesting life.

So, there is so much beauty in this, but this just went so over my head. It went so past me trying to enjoy it, and I just felt like I was reading it and had no nothing in vested in this at all.

Without having the idea of what Jane Eyre was about and trying to follow these characters, I got so lost. I know so many people love this and I do think that me not having read Jane Eyre complicates the experience of enjoying this book. So, for me, that makes it incredibly hard to enjoy this.

I was able to process what was on the page at the time. I was able to take away certain things, but this was hard for me. This was not easy for me to read.