Throwaway_g30091965 t1_j28si3l wrote on December 30, 2022 at 1:56 PM

Reply to comment by [deleted] in 4chan /lit/'s 2022 top 100 books of all time by pizzapastamix

> Most of your favorites shouldn’t be on this list

Eh I meant if you polled acknowledged writers of what books they considered to be their top books, it would probably look similar to those (minus the meme picks and more women representation for 4chan and minus some YA and recent Fantasy picks for r/books). See this poll for reference

Edit: [This site has a lot of top books list and they look similar with those two lists] (http://sonic.net/~rteeter/greatbks.html)

McGilla_Gorilla t1_j299lnj wrote on December 30, 2022 at 4:01 PM

I think a true /r/books list would actually look drastically different than this.

Throwaway_g30091965 t1_j2bh534 wrote on December 31, 2022 at 12:45 AM

r/truelist has done it for last year and it looks similar to /lit/ one, with less meme submissions (still has Harry Potter included and some fantasy/sci-fi books being rated too high, imo) and more non-western, non-male representation. But you could also argue that the demographics of r/truelit is more similar to /lit/ than r/books. True r/books list will probably combine some of popular books on r/truelit list with this list from r/fantasy, with some sprinkles of YA, and still predominantly western-centric imo.