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any books you read or wish you had read in high school? look...
plum bbw
  12/18/25
I would have enjoyed sword and sorcery fantasy. Poul Anderso...
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"There's a trip to the farmers market and time for toys...
Bronze new version
  12/19/25
this is now forever in my search history I want you dead,...
Bronze new version
  12/19/25
mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel
Alcoholic preventive strike patrolman
  12/18/25
A few offhand: -On the Shortness of Life - Seneca -Sta...
Wine casino
  12/18/25
https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922329&mc=32&a...
Bronze new version
  12/19/25
or have the kid wake up xmas morning to an ACTUAL bonfire of...
santa's top guy
  12/19/25
The Illustrated Man Odyssey The International Jew 1984 M...
Walnut volcanic crater roommate
  12/18/25
Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters
buck-toothed psychic
  12/18/25
i think my side of the mountain was one of his summer readin...
plum bbw
  12/18/25
Where the Red Fern Grows, All Quiet on the Western Front, Ce...
buck-toothed psychic
  12/18/25
they did lord of the flies already. ill look up some of your...
plum bbw
  12/18/25
180
buck-toothed psychic
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The eyes and the impossible sourdough heart of samurai...
Crystalline cumskin coldplay fan
  12/18/25
rocket boys is 180
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  12/18/25
Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo
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  12/18/25
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Elite travel guidebook corner
  12/19/25
weird group called the "rocket boys" ran the party...
santa's top guy
  12/22/25
CR GOAT status books, but would one be "past" thos...
Irradiated swollen site
  12/18/25
he’s 12/7th grade so i said high school since that&rsq...
plum bbw
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The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano)
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ty for the recs, this is helpful i just asked him what bo...
plum bbw
  12/18/25
Waste of time unless he's secretly 30+ years old and has rea...
180 Navy Rehab Jewess
  12/18/25
seconding count of monte cristo three musketeers is also ...
amber slippery home
  12/18/25
JackTales 🀑😳
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  12/18/25
those are for reading out loud , clown
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The Boy with Pink Hair by Perez Hilton https://www.amazon...
Crimson Metal Filthpig
  12/18/25
Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz) We Were Soldiers Once… And...
naked forum
  12/18/25
are you seriously recommending a book on manhood written by ...
swashbuckling dun main people
  12/18/25
I’m not even sure which author you’re talking ab...
naked forum
  12/18/25
lol
swashbuckling dun main people
  12/18/25
he doesn't like the term gay or homo and instead prefers &qu...
Kenneth Play
  12/21/25
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000
Elite travel guidebook corner
  12/18/25
No young man of any worth can finish that and not have a bet...
naked forum
  12/18/25
James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard...
Kink-friendly principal's office
  12/18/25
The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call.
Wine casino
  12/18/25
Once I got into the first one I burned through the rest (12 ...
Kink-friendly principal's office
  12/18/25
Any chance you can recommend your top 5? I need some new boo...
Wine casino
  12/18/25
1. Goldfinger 2. Moonraker 3. Casino Royale 4. From Russ...
bigeastboy
  12/19/25
tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I th...
Yummy Phase Pol Pot
  12/21/25
cr
Elite travel guidebook corner
  12/18/25
Anabasis
federal blood rage base
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swashbuckling dun main people
  12/18/25
Flowers for Algernon
zombie-like faggotry hell
  12/18/25
The Lessons of History - Will & Ariel Durant Man's Sear...
swashbuckling dun main people
  12/18/25
a song of ice and fire. I'm not a fantasy guy and I loved it...
self-absorbed azn
  12/18/25
Patrick O'Byrne's Master and Commander and related books in ...
passionate impertinent property
  12/18/25
Hardy Boys (how old is your kid?) Zen and the Art of Motorc...
big cobalt trailer park
  12/18/25
> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance lol
swashbuckling dun main people
  12/18/25
read that, among others, for my contemporary thought class i...
plum bbw
  12/18/25
zorba the greek
Elite travel guidebook corner
  12/18/25
...
naked forum
  12/18/25
Several good recs already upthread. Some others: The Thin...
Irradiated swollen site
  12/18/25
Cr. list I feel like The Things They Carried got a bit ov...
naked forum
  12/18/25
The Things They Carried is the most classic writer's favorit...
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Irradiated swollen site
  12/18/25
agree with the first sentence and rec. need to exercise cau...
Kenneth Play
  12/22/25
Watership Down A Day No Pigs Would Die 2nd Where the R...
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Starship Troopers Enders Game Johnny Tremain Childhoods E...
histrionic gas station
  12/18/25
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
Bronze new version
  12/19/25
Neon Bible better rec for younger kid
federal blood rage base
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abridged edgar allen poe short stories
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM
Author: plum bbw

any books you read or wish you had read in high school? looking for something that would be motivating / tools for life genre

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519424)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:15 PM
Author: Impressive shitlib

I would have enjoyed sword and sorcery fantasy. Poul Anderson (Broken Sword, Three Hearts and Three Lions) Fritz Lieber (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser) etc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519444)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:19 PM
Author: offensive meetinghouse fortuitous meteor

https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712?

Reasonable price, free shipping.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519452)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:21 PM
Author: Hairraiser Twinkling Den Kitty Cat



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519458)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:35 AM
Author: Bronze new version

"There's a trip to the farmers market and time for toys and crayons, a bubble bath, and lots of love."

-- School Library Journal

"Will undoubtedly be scooped up by families seeking queer representation in board books."

-- Kirkus

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49521596)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:42 AM
Author: Bronze new version

this is now forever in my search history

I want you dead, Malk Poo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49521719)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:21 PM
Author: Alcoholic preventive strike patrolman

mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519459)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Wine casino

A few offhand:

-On the Shortness of Life - Seneca

-Starship Troopers (the book is much better and more serious than the movie)

-Bonfire of the Vanities

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519460)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:10 AM
Author: Bronze new version

https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922329&mc=32&forum_id=2#35633765

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49521571)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 9:32 AM
Author: santa's top guy

or have the kid wake up xmas morning to an ACTUAL bonfire of his vanities

toughens him up a bit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49522050)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Walnut volcanic crater roommate

The Illustrated Man

Odyssey

The International Jew

1984

Meditations

The Myth of Sisyphus

Hamlet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519465)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:27 PM
Author: buck-toothed psychic

Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519476)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM
Author: plum bbw

i think my side of the mountain was one of his summer reading assignments



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519493)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:34 PM
Author: buck-toothed psychic

Where the Red Fern Grows, All Quiet on the Western Front, Celestine Prophecy, Lord of the Flies.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519513)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:37 PM
Author: plum bbw

they did lord of the flies already. ill look up some of your other recs, ty!

he just finished peak, so hatchet is a good one

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519523)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:45 PM
Author: buck-toothed psychic

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519559)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:01 PM
Author: Crystalline cumskin coldplay fan

The eyes and the impossible

sourdough

heart of samurai

artemis

rocket boys

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519953)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:13 PM
Author: Elite travel guidebook corner

rocket boys is 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49520282)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Crystalline cumskin coldplay fan

Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49521280)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:34 AM
Author: Elite travel guidebook corner



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49521595)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: santa's top guy

weird group called the "rocket boys" ran the party scene at my rural West Virginia high school

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49530601)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:54 PM
Author: Irradiated swollen site

CR GOAT status books, but would one be "past" those by HS, especially later in HS?

My 7 year old just read--and really enjoyed--Hatchet.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519755)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:00 PM
Author: plum bbw

he’s 12/7th grade so i said high school since that’s more his reading level

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519767)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:28 PM
Author: Smoky french chef

The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519483)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:29 PM
Author: plum bbw

ty for the recs, this is helpful

i just asked him what book he’s reading (we’re on a flight) and its war and peace

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519489)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:24 PM
Author: 180 Navy Rehab Jewess

Waste of time unless he's secretly 30+ years old and has read tons of other Russian lit and has a solid grounding in religion and philosophy.

Count of Monte Cristo is a goat novel that is also accessible and really exciting.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519679)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:29 PM
Author: amber slippery home

seconding count of monte cristo

three musketeers is also great and vastly superior to any adaptation

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519686)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:29 PM
Author: wonderful fanboi

JackTales 🀑😳

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519490)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:02 PM
Author: Crystalline cumskin coldplay fan

those are for reading out loud , clown



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519956)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM
Author: Crimson Metal Filthpig

The Boy with Pink Hair by Perez Hilton

https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Pink-Hair-Perez-Hilton/dp/0451234200

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519492)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:32 PM
Author: naked forum

Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz)

We Were Soldiers Once… And Young (Moore & Galloway)

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage (Lansing)

The Way of Men (Donovan)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519502)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:35 PM
Author: swashbuckling dun main people

are you seriously recommending a book on manhood written by a homo?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519701)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:45 PM
Author: naked forum

I’m not even sure which author you’re talking about, though I’m 99.99% sure that it’s not Moore or Galloway

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519724)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:41 PM
Author: swashbuckling dun main people

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519873)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:48 PM
Author: Kenneth Play (emotional girth)

he doesn't like the term gay or homo and instead prefers "androphile," a term he uses to describe romance and sex between masculine men

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Donovan

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49528627)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:46 PM
Author: Elite travel guidebook corner

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519898)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:28 PM
Author: naked forum

No young man of any worth can finish that and not have a better idea of what it means to be a man and to experience the thrill, the triumph, of surviving impossible odds. Leadership, loyalty, discipline. And then they get home and are like, fuck it, sign me up for WWI’s trenches

My middle son needed a bit of coaching on perseverance, so we read this together and then did a HARD AS FUCK mountain bike camping trip in western NC.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49520739)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:33 PM
Author: Kink-friendly principal's office

James Bond novels

Conan (only read the flemming and howard originals though)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519505)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:39 PM
Author: Wine casino

The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519535)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:51 PM
Author: Kink-friendly principal's office

Once I got into the first one I burned through the rest (12 or so) in a summer. all were 180. I tried reading the non-flemming but its not the same. They don't write novels like that anymore.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519587)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:50 PM
Author: Wine casino

Any chance you can recommend your top 5? I need some new books to read.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519744)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:06 AM
Author: bigeastboy

1. Goldfinger

2. Moonraker

3. Casino Royale

4. From Russia With Love

5. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

the order changes based on mood but these five are in a tier above.

the rest are all solid. for example, Diamonds are Forever is my least favorite and that is still leagues better than any modern espionage novel.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49522101)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:44 PM
Author: Yummy Phase Pol Pot

tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I think.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49528612)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:46 PM
Author: Elite travel guidebook corner

cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519729)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:42 PM
Author: federal blood rage base

Anabasis

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519542)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:48 PM
Author: swashbuckling dun main people



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519572)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:43 PM
Author: zombie-like faggotry hell

Flowers for Algernon

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519548)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:48 PM
Author: swashbuckling dun main people

The Lessons of History - Will & Ariel Durant

Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519568)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:55 PM
Author: self-absorbed azn

a song of ice and fire. I'm not a fantasy guy and I loved it. great series for boys who like knights, politics, and violence.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519602)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:30 PM
Author: passionate impertinent property

Patrick O'Byrne's Master and Commander and related books in the series

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519689)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:36 PM
Author: big cobalt trailer park

Hardy Boys (how old is your kid?)

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Dune

anything recent by Lawrence Millman

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519705)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:37 PM
Author: swashbuckling dun main people

> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519706)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: plum bbw

read that, among others, for my contemporary thought class in hs. book was so so but class was 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519770)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:38 PM
Author: Elite travel guidebook corner

zorba the greek



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519710)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:49 PM
Author: naked forum



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519736)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:53 PM
Author: Irradiated swollen site

Several good recs already upthread. Some others:

The Things They Carried

Mark Twain--starting with Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn

1984

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (and throw in The Hobbit)

Infinite Jest

Moby Dick

Blood Meridian

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49519751)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:30 PM
Author: naked forum

Cr. list

I feel like The Things They Carried got a bit overexposed to the hopelessly feminized librarian space for a time and was looked down upon as kind of trite. But it’s 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49520745)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:55 PM
Author: shivering tattoo pocket flask

The Things They Carried is the most classic writer's favorite. You shouldn't look down on librarian recs. This is all they do

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49520815)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 10:12 PM
Author: Irradiated swollen site



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49521254)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 11:44 AM
Author: Kenneth Play (emotional girth)

agree with the first sentence and rec. need to exercise caution with the second and third sentences just given that the values may not be stoic masculine warrior

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49530736)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:09 PM
Author: Light Concupiscible Background Story Candlestick Maker

Watership Down

A Day No Pigs Would Die

2nd Where the Red Fern Grows

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49520246)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:33 PM
Author: Olive laser beams



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49520756)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:40 PM
Author: histrionic gas station

Starship Troopers

Enders Game

Johnny Tremain

Childhoods End

Rama



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49520778)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:16 AM
Author: Bronze new version

A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49521578)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:11 AM
Author: federal blood rage base

Neon Bible better rec for younger kid

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49521698)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:23 AM
Author: cracking codepig

abridged edgar allen poe short stories

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2!#49521706)



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Date: December 26th, 2025 12:37 AM
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