The /lit/ book

The cat in the hat

>>7473900
The Recognitions.

"Obscure but still read by non-/lit/ hipsters" level is Infinite Jest by DFW

"Meme tier incomprehensible horseshit no one actually reads" is Finnegans Wake by Joyce, or maybe Lacan's Ecrits

Maybe Ulysses by Joyce? Still ball-breakingly hard and obsessed over by lit scholars but not really read widely. But it's still pretty famous lit so you'll still see overmakuped chubby loud chicks on Booktube channels saying it was their fav of the week.

If you want something more representative of /lit/ though it'd either be IJ or FW. FW because of /lit/'s tendency to deify anything incomprehensible (everyone here wants to read it, or Derrida/Lacan). IJ because everyone here is a hipster.

>>7473900
Stop trying to find patterns in everything.

>>7473968
This post shows incredible obliviousness to the real world. Do you ever venture outside of /lit/? It's already evident that you have zero exposure to real academia.

>>7473968
no one actually likes lacan though, except for zizek. and derrida isn't as incomprehensible as people make it out.

ulysses is probably the right answer but it depends what op means by average reading enthusiast. ulysses is very widely read, despite what we tell ourselves.

>>7473981
I'm a PhD student at Columbia.

>>7473982
Not really incomprehensible, just obscurantist. Lacan is a hack and only a few literary scholars pretend to read him (when they actually have just "agreed" as an emergent property of their own circlejerking).

>>7473900
>/mu/ song
That's an album, senpai

Taipei, Tao Lin

>>7473992
no you're not.

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Praise be to Max, the God of /lit/. The Ego and its Own is /lit/s bible

>>7473968
>Finnegans Wake by Joyce, or maybe Lacan's Ecrits

Pretty sure no one on /lit/ has actually read those.

>>7474056
T.h.i.s.t.b.h.

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>>7474082
>assuming everyone is as pleb as you

>>7474056
/thread

We have a meme trilogy and now a trilogy of meme trilogies, two of which vying for influence over the established one, but Stirner's The Ego and Its Own is something special to /lit/. For the other books, you can find others who have read them. They can be special to tohers.

But outside of /lit/, I doubt many know who Stirner is or who have read his works.

>>7473900
It is the Bible newfriend.

>>7474167
lol you're deluded. stirner is special to /lit/ because his brand of egoism appeals to the already narcissistic teenagers here, but irl of course people read him (iirc stan introduced him here after learning about him from anarchists, who are the original stirnerfags).

not many people have, duh, because not many people read philosophy and of those who do, no one cares about some minor hegelian who got casually btfo by marx and then died of pure shame.

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>>7473900

>>7474056
This! And it's surprisingly not shit.

We have our meme trilogy in Ulysses, Gravity's Rainbow, and Infinite Jest, but they're all popular outside of /lit/. Plus, The Ego and Its Own gave us one of the most popular meme words on here, "spooks".

>>7474307
stop shilling your garbage chart

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>>7474325
remove yourself from this board

>>7473968
Fuck off, retard, go take your pills.
>>7473992
Stop lying, if you actually were you'd know that Joyce is well-known across all colleges, and he'll even a good number of high schools, and that DFW is well known among Ivy League circles and English departments across the US.

>>7474307
Replace Catch-22 with Stoner

>>7473900

Woman Hating by Andrea Dworkin

>>7474056
/thread

>>7473900
if /lit/ had any taste, the /lit/ book would be "Mad's Al Jaffee Spews out Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions "

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BEHEAD ALL SATANS

>>7474381
Reported.

>>7473900
>The /mu/ song is Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven by Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

You can't be serious.