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