The '4chan Best Book Read Raid' stems from the long-standing tradition of 4chan users—particularly from boards like /lit/ and /b/—manipulating online polls and recommendation engines to promote controversial, obscure, or nonsensical books. These raids often target mainstream literary awards or 'Best Of' lists, resulting in ironic 'Best Book I Ever Read' endorsements that baffle outsiders. The meme serves as a celebration of the community's power to derail formal structures through collective irony and trolling. Today, the template is used to jokingly recommend everything from niche manifestos to absurd instruction manuals as the peak of human literature.