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The BBC Agrees: If You've Read 6 or More of These Books You're a Genius

Or you can transform yourself into a genius by having read 6 of these books by the end of 2022. Any faster may be harmful to your eyesight & mental health. Seriously though, works in the range 46-75 are probably the most approachable, & include sci-fi.
You don't need to read the following description before you start.
These are books that are representative of so-called "Theory-Fiction", of which the source web page says "In this hybrid style, theory is torn down from its pedestal, the real power of fiction is affirmed, and both are released from the high forms of the academy". Ehhhh?!?
The subsets are:
1-15: Poetic Theory (Theory which foregrounds its artifice)
16-28: Narrative Theory (Theory told through narrative form)
29-45: Cybernetic Theory-Fiction (Theory-fiction as cultural hype)
46-62: Sci-Phi (Low fiction, high theory)
63-82: Theoretical Fiction 1 (ThF1) (Fiction as theory)
83-97: ThF2 (Self-writing as theory)
98:101: ThF3 (Poetry & plays as theory)
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1
Fear and Trembling (Sǿren Kierkegaard)
Fear and Trembling (Sǿren Kierkegaard)
2
Visions of Excess (Georges Bataille)
Visions of Excess (Georges Bataille)
3
Minima Moralia (Theodor W. Adorno)
Minima Moralia (Theodor W. Adorno)
4
Speed and Politics (Paul Virilio)
Speed and Politics (Paul Virilio)
5
The Writing of the Disaster (Maurice Blanchot)
The Writing of the Disaster (Maurice Blanchot)
6
Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari)
Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari)
7
The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond (Jacques Derrida)
The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond (Jacques Derrida)
8
An Anthology (Simone Weil)
An Anthology (Simone Weil)
9
The Ecstasy of Communication (Jean Baudrillard)
The Ecstasy of Communication (Jean Baudrillard)
10
Futurism: An Anthology (Lawrence Rainey)
Futurism: An Anthology (Lawrence Rainey)
11
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race (Thomas Ligotti)
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race (Thomas Ligotti)
12
Vampyroteuthis Infernalis (Vilém Flusser & Louis Bec)
Vampyroteuthis Infernalis (Vilém Flusser & Louis Bec)
13
Citizen: An American Lyric (Claudia Rankine)
Citizen: An American Lyric (Claudia Rankine)
14
The Surrealism Reader (Dawn Ades)
The Surrealism Reader (Dawn Ades)
15
Manifestly Haraway (Donna Haraway)
Manifestly Haraway (Donna Haraway)
16
On the Nature of the Universe (Lucretius)
On the Nature of the Universe (Lucretius)
17
An Account of My Hut (Kamo No Chomei)
An Account of My Hut (Kamo No Chomei)
18
Zohar: The Book of Splendor: Basic Readings From the Kabbalah (Moses De León)
Zohar: The Book of Splendor: Basic Readings From the Kabbalah (Moses De León)
19
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche)
20
Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle (Pierre Klossowski)
Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle (Pierre Klossowski)
21
One-Way Street and Other Writings (Walter Benjamin)
One-Way Street and Other Writings (Walter Benjamin)
22
The Third Body (Hélène Cixous)
The Third Body (Hélène Cixous)
23
Male Fantasies (Klaus Theweleit)
Male Fantasies (Klaus Theweleit)
24
Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche (Luce Irigaray)
Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche (Luce Irigaray)
25
A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (Manuel De Landa)
A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (Manuel De Landa)
26
Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming (Catherine Keller)
Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming (Catherine Keller)
27
Biogea (Michel Serres)
Biogea (Michel Serres)
28
The Mushroom at the End of the World (Anna Tsing)
The Mushroom at the End of the World (Anna Tsing)
29
The World, the Flesh and the Devil (J.D. Bernal)
The World, the Flesh and the Devil (J.D. Bernal)
30
Summa Technologiae (Stanisław Lem)
Summa Technologiae (Stanisław Lem)
31
Fanged Noumena (Nick Land)
Fanged Noumena (Nick Land)
32
Spasm: Virtual Reality, Android Music and Electric Flesh (Arthur Kroker)
Spasm: Virtual Reality, Android Music and Electric Flesh (Arthur Kroker)
33
Cyberpositive (0(Rphan)D(Rift>))
Cyberpositive (0(Rphan)D(Rift>))
34
Writings 1997-2003 (Ccru)
Writings 1997-2003 (Ccru)
35
More Brilliant Than the Sun (Kodwo Eshun)
More Brilliant Than the Sun (Kodwo Eshun)
36
Zeros + Ones (Sadie Plant)
Zeros + Ones (Sadie Plant)
37
Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction (Mark Fisher)
Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction (Mark Fisher)
38
Cyclonopedia: Complicity With Anonymous Materials (Reza Negarestani)
Cyclonopedia: Complicity With Anonymous Materials (Reza Negarestani)
39
Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium (Reza Negarestani, Eugene Thacker, Ed Keller)
Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium (Reza Negarestani, Eugene Thacker, Ed Keller)
40
#ACCELERATE: The Accelerationist Reader (Robin MacKay & Armen Avanessian)
#ACCELERATE: The Accelerationist Reader (Robin MacKay & Armen Avanessian)
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