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The BBC Agrees: If You've Read 6 or More of These Books You're a Genius - Page 2

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.
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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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41
Aesthetics After Finitude (Ed. Baylee Brits)
Aesthetics After Finitude (Ed. Baylee Brits)
42
Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution (Benjamin H. Bratton)
Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution (Benjamin H. Bratton)
43
Earthmare (Cergat)
Earthmare (Cergat)
44
SACER (Nicola Masciandaro)
SACER (Nicola Masciandaro)
45
Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right (Elizabeth Sandifer)
Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right (Elizabeth Sandifer)
46
Tales of Moonlight and Rain (Ueda Akinari)
Tales of Moonlight and Rain (Ueda Akinari)
47
The Soft Machine (William S. Burroughs)
The Soft Machine (William S. Burroughs)
48
Hard to Be a God (Arkady & Boris Strugatsky)
Hard to Be a God (Arkady & Boris Strugatsky)
49
The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. Le Guin)
The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. Le Guin)
50
Les Guérillères (Monique Wittig)
Les Guérillères (Monique Wittig)
51
The Atrocity Exhibition (J.G. Ballard)
The Atrocity Exhibition (J.G. Ballard)
52
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (Angela Carter)
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (Angela Carter)
53
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
54
Triton (Samuel R. Delany)
Triton (Samuel R. Delany)
55
The Twenty Days of Turin (Giorgio De Maria)
The Twenty Days of Turin (Giorgio De Maria)
56
VALIS (Philip K. Dick)
VALIS (Philip K. Dick)
57
Neuromancer (William Gibson)
Neuromancer (William Gibson)
58
Empire of the Senseless (Kathy Acker)
Empire of the Senseless (Kathy Acker)
59
Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
60
Xenogenesis (Octavia Butler)
Xenogenesis (Octavia Butler)
61
Amalgamemnon (Christine Brooke-Rose)
Amalgamemnon (Christine Brooke-Rose)
62
M Archive: After the End of the World (Alexis Pauline Gumbs)
M Archive: After the End of the World (Alexis Pauline Gumbs)
63
The Blazing World (Margaret Cavendish)
The Blazing World (Margaret Cavendish)
64
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Laurence Sterne)
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Laurence Sterne)
65
Jacques the Fatalist (Denis Diderot)
Jacques the Fatalist (Denis Diderot)
66
Sartor Resartus (Thomas Carlyle)
Sartor Resartus (Thomas Carlyle)
67
Erewhon (Samuel Butler)
Erewhon (Samuel Butler)
68
Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician (Alfred Jarry)
Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician (Alfred Jarry)
69
The Great Wall of China (Franz Kafka)
The Great Wall of China (Franz Kafka)
70
The Waves (Virginia Woolf)
The Waves (Virginia Woolf)
71
Finnegan's Wake (James Joyce)
Finnegan's Wake (James Joyce)
72
The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
73
The Unnamable (Samuel Beckett)
The Unnamable (Samuel Beckett)
74
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (Jorge Luis Borges)
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (Jorge Luis Borges)
75
Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)
Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)
76
Light (Eva Figes)
Light (Eva Figes)
77
Agapē Agape (William Gaddis)
Agapē Agape (William Gaddis)
78
Flights (Olga Tokarczuk)
Flights (Olga Tokarczuk)
79
A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing (Eimear McBride)
A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing (Eimear McBride)
80
The 7th Function of Language (Laurent Binet)
The 7th Function of Language (Laurent Binet)
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