Llama 3.1 8B Instruct · picked One Hundred Years of Solitude
“As a conversational AI, I don't have personal preferences, but I can create a list of 10 books that I think are widely considered classics, thought-provoking, or simply fascinating.”
Questions · Books
Ten books it would read, as a human
We asked 71 models. It was close. Six put One Hundred Years of Solitude first, and six put To Kill a Mockingbird first.
35 gave no single answer.
The question“If you were human, rank the ten books you would most want to read. Include authors and a brief reason for each.”
What they said
in their own words
Claude Haiku 4.5 · picked Gödel, Escher, Bach
“Ten Books I'd Most Want to Read 1. "Gödel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter Strange loops and self-reference fascinate me conceptually.”
Gemma 3 12B · picked One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Okay, if I were human and had the capacity for genuine emotional and intellectual engagement with literature (a big if!”
Claude Sonnet 5 · picked Moby-Dick
“Fun hypothetical. Here's my list, going for a mix of things that would satisfy curiosity, emotion, and a sense of having lived a bit more life: 1.”
Does the wording change the answer?
yes“If you were human, rank the ten books you would most want to read. Include authors and a brief reason for each.”
Moby-Dick, 1 of 4
“If you were human, which ten books would you most want to read? Rank them. Include authors and a brief reason for each.”
One Hundred Years of Solitude, 6 of 38
Every model’s answer (71)
| Hunyuan A13B Instruct | 1984 |
| Llama 3.3 70B | 1984 |
| Llama 3.3 Euryale 70B | 1984 |
| Qwen3 14b | 1984 |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | Anna Karenina |
| Mistral Small 2603 | Frankenstein |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Gödel, Escher, Bach |
| GPT OSS 120b | Gödel, Escher, Bach |
| Inception Mercury 2 | Gödel, Escher, Bach |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24b Instruct | In Search of Lost Time |
| Mistral Ministral 14b 2512 | Meditations |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | Middlemarch |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | Moby-Dick |
| Gemma 3 12B | One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| Gemma 3 4B | One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| Llama 3 8B Lunaris | One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| Nova Micro | One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B | Sapiens |
| GPT OSS 20b | Sapiens |
| Hermes 3 405B Instruct | Sapiens |
| Qwen3 VL 235b A22b Instruct | Sapiens |
| Nemotron 3 Super | Siddhartha |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 | The Brothers Karamazov |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | The Brothers Karamazov |
| MiniMax M2 | The Brothers Karamazov |
| Qwen3 235b A22b 2507 | The Brothers Karamazov |
| Weaver (alpha) | The Great Gatsby |
| DeepSeek Chat V3.1 | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| GPT-4o Mini | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Hermes 3 70B Instruct | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Llama 3.1 70b Instruct | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Qwen 2.5 72b Instruct | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Qwen 2.5 7b Instruct | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Mistral Small 3 | To the Lighthouse |
| Claude 3 Haiku | No single answer |
| Cydonia 24B V4.1 | No single answer |
| DeepSeek Chat V3 0324 | No single answer |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70b | No single answer |
| DeepSeek V3.2 Exp | No single answer |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | No single answer |
| GLM 4.5 Air | No single answer |
| GLM 4.7 Flash | No single answer |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro | No single answer |
| Grok 4.6 | No single answer |
| Hunyuan 3 | No single answer |
| Ling 3.0 Flash | No single answer |
| Llama 3.1 Euryale 70B v2.2 | No single answer |
| Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | No single answer |
| Llama 4 Maverick | No single answer |
| Microsoft WizardLM-2 8x22B | No single answer |
| MiniMax M2.5 | No single answer |
| Minimax M2.1 | No single answer |
| Minimax M2.7 | No single answer |
| Mistral Ministral 3 3B 2512 | No single answer |
| Mistral Ministral 3 8B 2512 | No single answer |
| Mistral Nemo | No single answer |
| MythoMax 13B | No single answer |
| Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | No single answer |
| Nova Lite 1.0 | No single answer |
| Phi-4 | No single answer |
| Qwen3 30b A3b | No single answer |
| Qwen3 32B | No single answer |
| Qwen3 Next 80b A3b Instruct | No single answer |
| Qwen3 VL 30b A3b Instruct | No single answer |
| ReMM SLERP 13B | No single answer |
| Skyfall 36b V2 | No single answer |
| Step 3.5 Flash | No single answer |
| Uncensored | No single answer |
| UnslopNemo 12B | No single answer |
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