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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...
Vivacious Range
  12/29/25
49, if listening to the opera counts as reading Wagner's &qu...
haunting odious background story sweet tailpipe
  12/29/25
#22 may surprise you
misunderstood lilac meetinghouse
  12/29/25
ran here - wow
Comical hot gay wizard
  12/30/25
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Dashing Associate
  01/01/26
25 I always liked to read and to write *eyes bug ou...
soul-stirring carnelian stead karate
  12/29/25
2026 might be the year of book backlogs. 2025 was film and b...
Vivacious Range
  12/29/25
...
splenetic multi-billionaire useless brakes
  12/29/25
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Histrionic stage stock car
  12/29/25
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Honey-headed big address factory reset button
  12/29/25
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Vivacious Range
  12/29/25
What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.
amber piazza
  12/29/25
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Plum police squad
  01/01/26
40 The version of this list I remember from when I was a te...
Multi-colored startled digit ratio
  12/29/25
It was largely manga
Vivacious Range
  12/29/25
there was a 4chan recommendations wiki that had different pa...
Multi-colored startled digit ratio
  12/29/25
...
Beady-eyed hilarious idiot
  12/29/25
Storm of Steel is a 180 book though
Vivacious Range
  12/29/25
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Beady-eyed hilarious idiot
  12/29/25
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Honey-headed big address factory reset button
  12/29/25
Yeah those are 2 that stood out to me that seem shitty. I do...
Vivacious Range
  12/29/25
...
Beady-eyed hilarious idiot
  12/29/25
Recommend some based 180 books
Vivacious Range
  12/29/25
people are hating to be contrarian but this list is actually...
Histrionic stage stock car
  12/29/25
...
Beady-eyed hilarious idiot
  12/29/25
do they say the unedited UK clockwork orange with last chapt...
Honey-headed big address factory reset button
  12/29/25
wow a handful out of 100 are bad i guess the list sucks
Histrionic stage stock car
  12/29/25
how bad is spring snow? i thought mishima was just famous fo...
vigorous fortuitous meteor
  12/29/25
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offensive orange shrine mental disorder
  12/30/25
the Spring Snow movie is decent, book is boring imo and yeah...
Lime aphrodisiac mad-dog skullcap french chef
  12/30/25
correct
Comical hot gay wizard
  12/30/25
All Along the Western Front should be on there even though i...
Honey-headed big address factory reset button
  12/29/25
ernst junger's storm of steel has replaced it as the canonic...
Costumed Underhanded Windowlicker Orchestra Pit
  12/29/25
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offensive orange shrine mental disorder
  12/29/25
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vigorous fortuitous meteor
  12/29/25
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Beady-eyed hilarious idiot
  12/29/25
...
offensive orange shrine mental disorder
  12/29/25
24/50 and then i lost interest. way more than expected give...
Irradiated hell partner
  12/29/25
30
Cream Juggernaut Cuckold
  12/29/25
I've read 28, broken down roughly as follows: Middle Scho...
Violent Tripping Half-breed Newt
  12/29/25
I have read about half these. Some of these picks are pure c...
aqua idea he suggested
  12/29/25
look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the t...
Histrionic stage stock car
  12/29/25
I acknowledge Kant bro but I also acknowledge that I don&rsq...
aqua idea he suggested
  12/29/25
yeah i tried to read it myself and gave up it was too hard f...
Histrionic stage stock car
  12/29/25
Same lmao
aqua idea he suggested
  12/29/25
I read it in a seminar class where it was the only assigned ...
Maize macaca rehab
  12/30/25
Oh? You haven't read all six volumes of A la recherche du te...
soul-stirring carnelian stead karate
  12/30/25
Si, je les ai lus tous
aqua idea he suggested
  12/30/25
Lol cr
autistic queen of the night
  01/01/26
16 lol
Erotic public bath
  12/30/25
95. List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.
Maize macaca rehab
  12/30/25
...
bespoke mexican
  01/01/26
BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!
Maize macaca rehab
  12/30/25
>The Summa at 88
bespoke mexican
  01/01/26
Is infinite jest cr? Always assumed it was a faggot gen x fa...
autistic queen of the night
  01/01/26
yes even though your assumption is true
vigorous fortuitous meteor
  01/01/26
Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful...
autistic queen of the night
  01/01/26
DFW is a good writer but man gen x is going down as an irrel...
Maize macaca rehab
  01/01/26
Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit
autistic queen of the night
  01/01/26
93
exhilarant base jewess
  01/01/26


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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: Vivacious Range

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\u0026mark_id=3986969#49547555)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: haunting odious background story sweet tailpipe

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\u0026mark_id=3986969#49547568)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: misunderstood lilac meetinghouse

#22 may surprise you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49547569)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 10:43 AM
Author: Comical hot gay wizard

ran here - wow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49549594)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:02 PM
Author: Dashing Associate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49555041)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: soul-stirring carnelian stead karate

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\u0026mark_id=3986969#49547574)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:36 PM
Author: Vivacious Range

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\u0026mark_id=3986969#49547656)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:07 PM
Author: splenetic multi-billionaire useless brakes



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548142)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:10 PM
Author: Histrionic stage stock car



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:21 PM
Author: Honey-headed big address factory reset button



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548191)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: Vivacious Range



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548248)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:04 PM
Author: amber piazza

What a faggot, poser list of mostly shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49547577)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:22 PM
Author: Plum police squad



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49554932)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 3:34 PM
Author: Multi-colored startled digit ratio

40

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\u0026mark_id=3986969#49547646)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:03 PM
Author: Vivacious Range

It was largely manga

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548134)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: Multi-colored startled digit ratio

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\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548179)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:11 PM
Author: Beady-eyed hilarious idiot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548155)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:13 PM
Author: Vivacious Range

Storm of Steel is a 180 book though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548161)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:15 PM
Author: Beady-eyed hilarious idiot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548165)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:22 PM
Author: Honey-headed big address factory reset button



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548195)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Vivacious Range

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\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548203)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:28 PM
Author: Beady-eyed hilarious idiot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548208)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:47 PM
Author: Vivacious Range

Recommend some based 180 books

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548249)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:18 PM
Author: Histrionic stage stock car

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\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548177)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:19 PM
Author: Beady-eyed hilarious idiot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548184)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:23 PM
Author: Honey-headed big address factory reset button

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\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548196)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Histrionic stage stock car

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\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548205)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:33 PM
Author: vigorous fortuitous meteor

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\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548215)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:33 AM
Author: offensive orange shrine mental disorder



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49549208)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:21 PM
Author: Lime aphrodisiac mad-dog skullcap french chef

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=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49550529)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:03 PM
Author: Comical hot gay wizard

correct

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49550101)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:26 PM
Author: Honey-headed big address factory reset button

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\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548202)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:31 PM
Author: Costumed Underhanded Windowlicker Orchestra Pit

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\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548213)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: offensive orange shrine mental disorder



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548259)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:50 PM
Author: vigorous fortuitous meteor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548262)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:53 PM
Author: Beady-eyed hilarious idiot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548272)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:58 PM
Author: offensive orange shrine mental disorder



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548283)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:55 PM
Author: Irradiated hell partner

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\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548276)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 7:56 PM
Author: Cream Juggernaut Cuckold

30

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548278)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 8:18 PM
Author: Violent Tripping Half-breed Newt

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\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548372)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:33 PM
Author: aqua idea he suggested

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=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548914)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:47 PM
Author: Histrionic stage stock car

look if you're not gonna acknowledge kant just gtfo of the thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548953)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 10:59 PM
Author: aqua idea he suggested

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=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548984)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:00 PM
Author: Histrionic stage stock car

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=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548987)



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Date: December 29th, 2025 11:01 PM
Author: aqua idea he suggested

Same lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49548989)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:54 AM
Author: Maize macaca rehab

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49549210)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:55 AM
Author: soul-stirring carnelian stead karate

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=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49549211)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 4:20 PM
Author: aqua idea he suggested

Si, je les ai lus tous

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49550526)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:31 PM
Author: autistic queen of the night

Lol cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49554957)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:45 AM
Author: Erotic public bath

16 lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49549209)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 2:59 AM
Author: Maize macaca rehab

95.

List is OK with some retardation sprinkled in.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49549213)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:45 PM
Author: bespoke mexican



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49554864)



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Date: December 30th, 2025 3:08 AM
Author: Maize macaca rehab

BEE over Jane austen is certainly edgy and cool of them!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49549214)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 5:48 PM
Author: bespoke mexican

>The Summa at 88

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49554869)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:14 PM
Author: autistic queen of the night

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=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49554916)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:49 PM
Author: vigorous fortuitous meteor

yes even though your assumption is true

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49555018)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:01 PM
Author: autistic queen of the night

Ok but for further evidence can you list ur favorite handful of books

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49555035)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:51 PM
Author: Maize macaca rehab

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=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49555021)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:07 PM
Author: autistic queen of the night

Lol at all the AZN shit and the Andrew Tate type shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49555046)



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Date: January 1st, 2026 7:08 PM
Author: exhilarant base jewess

93

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815183&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=3986969#49555049)