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4chan's list of top books of all time. How many of these have you read?

https://x.com/andrewchen/status/2005289538189738278 I have r...
fully online and responsive
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49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
3I/Atlas
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#22 may surprise you
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25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
CapTTTainFalcon
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2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
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,;;,
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Grok Imagine Nationalism
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sensitive to ugliness
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fully online and responsive
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What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
Nude Six Nine
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40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
John Frum
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It was largely manga
fully online and responsive
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there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
John Frum
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/lit/ is filled with faggots not even wasting my time rea...
i gave my cousin head
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Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
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There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoeho...
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sensitive to ugliness
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Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
fully online and responsive
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when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off i...
i gave my cousin head
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Recommend some based 180 books
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people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
Grok Imagine Nationalism
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greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gats...
i gave my cousin head
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do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
sensitive to ugliness
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
Grok Imagine Nationalism
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how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
Brother Peter Dimond
  12/29/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
sensitive to ugliness
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ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
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lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, co...
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Brother Peter Dimond
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM
i gave my cousin head
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i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping h...
dadgummit
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24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
you\'re the puppet
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animeboi
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I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: fully online and responsive

https://x.com/andrewchen/status/2005289538189738278 I have read 11 of these. Should I add the rest to my backlog? I feel like I don't ever wanna read Joyce or any german novelist again or any "philosopher"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49547555)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: 3I/Atlas

49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49547568)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
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#22 may surprise you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49547569)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: CapTTTainFalcon

25

I always liked

to read and to write

*eyes bug out of head, anus prolapses*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49547574)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:36 PM
Author: fully online and responsive

2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and before that, gaming, before doodikoff made it passé

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49547656)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:07 PM
Author: ,;;,



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49548142)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:10 PM
Author: Grok Imagine Nationalism



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49548150)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:21 PM
Author: sensitive to ugliness



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49548191)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: fully online and responsive



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49548248)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:04 PM
Author: Nude Six Nine

What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49547577)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:34 PM
Author: John Frum

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The version of this list I remember from when I was a teen on 4chan (so ~2012) was better

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49547646)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:03 PM
Author: fully online and responsive

It was largely manga

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49548134)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: John Frum

there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pages for novels, manga, digital/visual novels etc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49548179)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:11 PM
Author: i gave my cousin head

/lit/ is filled with faggots

not even wasting my time reading this

its like asking /tv/ for tv show recs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49548155)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:13 PM
Author: fully online and responsive

Storm of Steel is a 180 book though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49548161)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:15 PM
Author: i gave my cousin head

There are some decent recs on there actually but they shoehorn dumb shit like infinite jest and a thousand years of solitude and jew trash

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49548165)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:22 PM
Author: sensitive to ugliness



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49548195)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: fully online and responsive

Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I don't want to ever read anything a south american wrote. "magical realism" is the worst genre or beaner slop imo. And infinite jest just feels reddity but I've never read any of it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49548203)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:28 PM
Author: i gave my cousin head

when we were all still in college EVERYONE here sucked off infinite jest non stop, multiple 300+ poast threads about it

bunch of poser fags here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49548208)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: fully online and responsive

Recommend some based 180 books

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49548249)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: Grok Imagine Nationalism

people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually pretty good imo

yeah it's not perfect but it's better than almost any other "best books" list you will ever see

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49548177)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:19 PM
Author: i gave my cousin head

greatest books of all time

clockwork orange

the great gatsby

spring snow

etc etc

give me a break

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49548184)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:23 PM
Author: sensitive to ugliness

do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapter at least

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49548196)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Grok Imagine Nationalism

wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49548205)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:33 PM
Author: Brother Peter Dimond

how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous for his failed coup+killing self and being a weird homo, no idea people thought so highly of any of his writing

list is fairly credited though. lol'd at all the dostoevsky books so high even though i like them. tells you the type of doods making this list

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49548215)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: sensitive to ugliness

All Along the Western Front should be on there even though its flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49548202)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:31 PM
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ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonical WWI account.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49548213)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: dadgummit

lol at mishima having 3 books on this extremely gay list, compiled by homos on 4chan, of gay books written by gay authors for their gay audience

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49548259)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: Brother Peter Dimond



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49548262)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:53 PM
Author: i gave my cousin head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49548272)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:58 PM
Author: dadgummit

i assume everyone knows that mishima was a flaming lisping homo who larped as a samurai. less known is the fact that when he competed in kendo, he also fought, befitting a homo, in the least manly way possible -- the complete opposite of what he describes in runaway horses.

ps. it looks like there are 2 books by him, not 3. that's still 2 too many.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49548283)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:55 PM
Author: you\'re the puppet

24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected given my utter lack of interest in classical literature. I would happily replace 1/2 of these with isaac asimov. Including a lot of the russians. Anna Karenina is trash.

Ok 20/50 for the bottom 50. Still no asimov. I only came back to check. I mean dune ffs but not asimov?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49548276)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:56 PM
Author: animeboi (.)

30

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49548278)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 8:18 PM
Author: Nintendo 1488

I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows:

Middle School: ~4

High School: ~10

College: ~4

The remaining ~10 were when I was in my early 30s or so and for a while chose what to read by simply going down a list of the best 100 novels of all time (which looked very similar to this list) and read whichever ones were under 300 pages.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2...#49548372)