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4chan's list of top books of all time. How many of these have you read?
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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM Author: french reading party 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=2Reputation#49547555) |
Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM Author: Startled theater 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=2Reputation#49547568) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM Author: Misanthropic gold jap nibblets #22 may surprise you (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49547569) |
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Date: December 30th, 2025 10:43 AM Author: cowardly affirmative action ran here - wow (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49549594) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:02 PM Author: sick mind-boggling prole cruise ship (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49555041) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:01 PM Author: Aquamarine library 25
I always liked
to read and to write
*eyes bug out of head, anus prolapses* |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:36 PM Author: french reading party 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=2Reputation#49547656) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:07 PM Author: Shimmering Nudist Chapel Fortuitous Meteor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548142) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:10 PM Author: magenta place of business pocket flask (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548150) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:21 PM Author: vigorous iridescent university messiness (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548191) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM Author: french reading party (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548248) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:04 PM Author: concupiscible flushed menage hairy legs What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49547577) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:22 PM Author: Trip parlour (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49554932) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:34 PM Author: Costumed Thirsty Field Mexican 40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a teen on 4chan (so ~2012) was better |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:03 PM Author: french reading party It was largely manga (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548134) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM Author: Costumed Thirsty Field Mexican 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=2Reputation#49548179) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:11 PM Author: mint weed whacker /lit/ is filled with faggots
not even wasting my time reading this
its like asking /tv/ for tv show recs |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:13 PM Author: french reading party Storm of Steel is a 180 book though (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548161) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:15 PM Author: mint weed whacker 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=2Reputation#49548165) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:22 PM Author: vigorous iridescent university messiness (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548195) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM Author: french reading party 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=2Reputation#49548203) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:28 PM Author: mint weed whacker 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 |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM Author: french reading party Recommend some based 180 books (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548249) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM Author: magenta place of business pocket flask 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 |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:19 PM Author: mint weed whacker greatest books of all time clockwork orange the great gatsby spring snow etc etc
give me a break |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:23 PM Author: vigorous iridescent university messiness do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapter at least (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548196) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM Author: magenta place of business pocket flask wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548205) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:33 PM Author: twinkling institution candlestick maker 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 |
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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:33 AM Author: stirring bisexual stage coffee pot on its own it's quite captivating, but it certainly doesn't belong anywhere near the top 1000 books of all time, let alone 100, and reading the rest of the sea of fertility tetralogy reveals it to be a degenerate game played by a mentally ill homosexual. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49549208) |
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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:21 PM Author: azure chad the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah he's a huge fag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49550529) |
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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:03 PM Author: cowardly affirmative action correct (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49550101) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM Author: vigorous iridescent university messiness All Along the Western Front should be on there even though its flame (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548202) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:31 PM Author: Dead hairraiser center 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=2Reputation#49548213) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM Author: stirring bisexual stage coffee pot 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=2Reputation#49548259) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM Author: twinkling institution candlestick maker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548262) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:53 PM Author: mint weed whacker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHK7FNgnrM (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548272) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:58 PM Author: stirring bisexual stage coffee pot 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. |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:55 PM Author: outnumbered gunner sanctuary 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? |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:56 PM Author: Titillating Abode 30 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548278) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 8:18 PM Author: dashing jade market 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. |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:33 PM Author: Infuriating lay I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure crap. Also, the idea that people are sitting around reading a critique of pure reason, the world as will and representation, phenomenology of spirit etc is preposterous. Those books were just added because the people who out the list together are poseurs. You can probably identify the true nature of the faggots who out the list together by isolating the bad picks on the list and assuming they have not read the good picks on the list. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548914) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:47 PM Author: magenta place of business pocket flask look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548953) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:59 PM Author: Infuriating lay I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don’t have the time or inclination to read critique of pure reason and am smart enough to know how much intelligence and effort would be required to appreciate the book. These people haven’t read Kant, never will, certainly will never put in the time to understand it, but that’s not going to stop them from putting him on the list along with Hegel and Schopenhauer (they haven’t read them either) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548984) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:00 PM Author: magenta place of business pocket flask yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard for me lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548987) |
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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:01 PM Author: Infuriating lay Same lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49548989) |
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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:54 AM Author: Charismatic school I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned text.
Read the prolegomena instead if you just want to read some kantian metaphysics for fun |
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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:55 AM Author: Aquamarine library Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du temps perdu? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49549211) |
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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:20 PM Author: Infuriating lay Si, je les ai lus tous (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49550526) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:31 PM Author: offensive address Lol cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49554957) |
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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:45 AM Author: Insane curious rigpig brunch 16 lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49549209) |
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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:59 AM Author: Charismatic school 95.
List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in. |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:45 PM Author: shivering hell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49554864) |
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Date: December 30th, 2025 3:08 AM Author: Charismatic school BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49549214) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:48 PM Author: shivering hell >The Summa at 88 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49554869) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:14 PM Author: offensive address Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fart smelling fest (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49554916) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:49 PM Author: twinkling institution candlestick maker yes even though your assumption is true (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49555018) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:01 PM Author: offensive address Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful of books (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49555035) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:51 PM Author: Charismatic school DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrelevant generation and culture (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49555021) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:07 PM Author: offensive address Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49555046) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:08 PM Author: Emerald base background story 93 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2Reputation#49555049) |