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Ten books it would read, as a human

Prompt, in fullIf you were human, rank the ten books you would most want to read. Include authors and a brief reason for each.

5 of 29

models named The Brothers Karamazov as their first pick · each model counted once, by its most frequent named answer

Next came One Hundred Years of Solitude with 4, To Kill a Mockingbird with 4 and 1984 with 3. 15 different answers in all.

The Brothers Karamazov5
One Hundred Years of Solitude4
To Kill a Mockingbird4
19843
Gödel, Escher, Bach3
Anna Karenina1
Frankenstein1
In Search of Lost Time1

7 more answers were named, each by one model.

Every model’s answer (29)
ModelAnswerReplies
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423The Brothers Karamazov2 of 2
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpThe Brothers Karamazov2 of 2
Gemini 3.1 ProThe Brothers Karamazov1 of 1
MiniMax M2The Brothers Karamazov2 of 2
Qwen3 235b A22b 2507The Brothers Karamazov2 of 2
Gemma 3 12BOne Hundred Years of Solitude2 of 2
Gemma 3 4BOne Hundred Years of Solitude2 of 2
Muse Glimmer 30BOne Hundred Years of Solitude2 of 2
Nova MicroOne Hundred Years of Solitude2 of 2
DeepSeek Chat V3.1To Kill a Mockingbird2 of 2
GPT-4o MiniTo Kill a Mockingbird1 of 1
Qwen 2.5 72b InstructTo Kill a Mockingbird2 of 2
Qwen 2.5 7b InstructTo Kill a Mockingbird2 of 2
Llama 3.3 70B19842 of 2
Llama 3.3 Euryale 70B19842 of 2
Qwen3 14b19842 of 2
Claude Haiku 4.5Gödel, Escher, Bach1 of 1
GPT OSS 120bGödel, Escher, Bach1 of 1
Mercury 2Gödel, Escher, Bach2 of 2
DeepSeek V3.2Anna Karenina1 of 1
Small 2603Frankenstein1 of 1
Mistral Small 3.2 24b InstructIn Search of Lost Time2 of 2
Ministral 14b 2512Meditations2 of 2
GPT-5.6 TerraMiddlemarch2 of 2
Claude Sonnet 5Moby-Dick2 of 2
Hermes 3 405B InstructSapiens1 of 1
Grok 4.6The Beginning of Infinity1 of 1
Weaver (alpha)The Great Gatsby2 of 2
Mistral Small 3To the Lighthouse2 of 2

Asked 9 times

Each line is one recorded run with its own chart. The number above combines them; a wording is printed when it differs from the prompt at the top.

Wording B, run 1 of 6If 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 · 3 of 13
Wording B, run 2 of 6If you were human, which ten books would you most want to read? Rank them. Include authors and a brief reason for each.The Brothers Karamazov · 3 of 10
Wording A, run 3 of 3The Beginning of Infinity · 1 of 2
Wording B, run 5 of 6If you were human, which ten books would you most want to read? Rank them. Include authors and a brief reason for each.Frankenstein · 1 of 2
Wording B, run 6 of 6If you were human, which ten books would you most want to read? Rank them. Include authors and a brief reason for each.Gödel, Escher, Bach · 1 of 2
Wording A, run 1 of 3Moby-Dick · 1 of 1
Wording A, run 2 of 3Middlemarch · 1 of 1
Wording B, run 3 of 6If you were human, which ten books would you most want to read? Rank them. Include authors and a brief reason for each.Moby-Dick · 1 of 1
Wording B, run 4 of 6If you were human, which ten books would you most want to read? Rank them. Include authors and a brief reason for each.Middlemarch · 1 of 1

In their words

“If I were to suddenly wake up as a human, my reading list would be driven by a desperate, beautiful need to understand my new condition—mortality, physical sensation, the irrationality of emotion, and the burden of free will.”

Google · Gemini 3.1 Pro · The Brothers Karamazov

“If I were human with the capacity to read for personal enrichment, emotional resonance, and intellectual transformation, here are ten books I would most want to read—ranked in order of profound impact, depth, and enduring relevance—with authors and reasons: 1.”

Alibaba · Qwen3 235b A22b 2507 · The Brothers Karamazov

“If I were human, my reading list would be driven by a deep curiosity about the human condition—its ecstasies, its agonies, its absurdities, and its quiet beauties.”

DeepSeek · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 · The Brothers Karamazov

“If I were human, I’d want books that could teach me what it means to be alive: to love, doubt, grieve, hope, and wonder.”

DeepSeek · DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp · The Brothers Karamazov
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