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Book rec for boys ?

any books you read or wish you had read in high school? look...
irradiated crusty abode codepig
  12/18/25
I would have enjoyed sword and sorcery fantasy. Poul Anderso...
excitant office coldplay fan
  12/18/25
https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712? Reasonable price, ...
big brilliant heaven
  12/18/25
...
Aromatic blathering legal warrant doctorate
  12/18/25
"There's a trip to the farmers market and time for toys...
comical electric furnace
  12/19/25
this is now forever in my search history I want you dead,...
comical electric furnace
  12/19/25
mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel
rambunctious sex offender mad cow disease
  12/18/25
A few offhand: -On the Shortness of Life - Seneca -Sta...
frozen property
  12/18/25
https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922329&mc=32&a...
comical electric furnace
  12/19/25
or have the kid wake up xmas morning to an ACTUAL bonfire of...
black toaster
  12/19/25
The Illustrated Man Odyssey The International Jew 1984 M...
fishy adulterous feces school
  12/18/25
Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters
Dashing ruby pisswyrm
  12/18/25
i think my side of the mountain was one of his summer readin...
irradiated crusty abode codepig
  12/18/25
Where the Red Fern Grows, All Quiet on the Western Front, Ce...
Dashing ruby pisswyrm
  12/18/25
they did lord of the flies already. ill look up some of your...
irradiated crusty abode codepig
  12/18/25
180
Dashing ruby pisswyrm
  12/18/25
The eyes and the impossible sourdough heart of samurai...
hairraiser site
  12/18/25
rocket boys is 180
Well-lubricated step-uncle's house
  12/18/25
Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo
hairraiser site
  12/18/25
...
Well-lubricated step-uncle's house
  12/19/25
weird group called the "rocket boys" ran the party...
black toaster
  12/22/25
CR GOAT status books, but would one be "past" thos...
Peach dragon
  12/18/25
he’s 12/7th grade so i said high school since that&rsq...
irradiated crusty abode codepig
  12/18/25
The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano)
Aqua shrine
  12/18/25
ty for the recs, this is helpful i just asked him what bo...
irradiated crusty abode codepig
  12/18/25
Waste of time unless he's secretly 30+ years old and has rea...
mahogany stubborn theatre dopamine
  12/18/25
seconding count of monte cristo three musketeers is also ...
Odious Hell Sneaky Criminal
  12/18/25
JackTales 🤡😳
low-t rigpig
  12/18/25
those are for reading out loud , clown
hairraiser site
  12/18/25
The Boy with Pink Hair by Perez Hilton https://www.amazon...
bronze orchestra pit immigrant
  12/18/25
Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz) We Were Soldiers Once… And...
appetizing cumskin
  12/18/25
are you seriously recommending a book on manhood written by ...
sick school cafeteria
  12/18/25
I’m not even sure which author you’re talking ab...
appetizing cumskin
  12/18/25
lol
sick school cafeteria
  12/18/25
he doesn't like the term gay or homo and instead prefers &qu...
Spectacular parlor mediation
  12/21/25
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000
Well-lubricated step-uncle's house
  12/18/25
No young man of any worth can finish that and not have a bet...
appetizing cumskin
  12/18/25
James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard...
Haunting insane party of the first part
  12/18/25
The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call.
frozen property
  12/18/25
Once I got into the first one I burned through the rest (12 ...
Haunting insane party of the first part
  12/18/25
Any chance you can recommend your top 5? I need some new boo...
frozen property
  12/18/25
1. Goldfinger 2. Moonraker 3. Casino Royale 4. From Russ...
Haunting insane party of the first part
  12/19/25
tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I th...
frozen property
  12/21/25
cr
Well-lubricated step-uncle's house
  12/18/25
Anabasis
slippery psychic stage
  12/18/25
...
sick school cafeteria
  12/18/25
Flowers for Algernon
concupiscible institution
  12/18/25
The Lessons of History - Will & Ariel Durant Man's Sear...
sick school cafeteria
  12/18/25
a song of ice and fire. I'm not a fantasy guy and I loved it...
shivering milk
  12/18/25
Patrick O'Byrne's Master and Commander and related books in ...
adventurous crimson mad-dog skullcap prole
  12/18/25
Hardy Boys (how old is your kid?) Zen and the Art of Motorc...
Light mildly autistic lay karate
  12/18/25
> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance lol
sick school cafeteria
  12/18/25
read that, among others, for my contemporary thought class i...
irradiated crusty abode codepig
  12/18/25
zorba the greek
Well-lubricated step-uncle's house
  12/18/25
...
appetizing cumskin
  12/18/25
Several good recs already upthread. Some others: The Thin...
Peach dragon
  12/18/25
Cr. list I feel like The Things They Carried got a bit ov...
appetizing cumskin
  12/18/25
The Things They Carried is the most classic writer's favorit...
Flatulent indigo temple
  12/18/25
...
Peach dragon
  12/18/25
agree with the first sentence and rec. need to exercise cau...
Spectacular parlor mediation
  12/22/25
Watership Down A Day No Pigs Would Die 2nd Where the R...
bipolar big-titted area
  12/18/25
...
chartreuse vibrant theater
  12/18/25
Starship Troopers Enders Game Johnny Tremain Childhoods E...
Swashbuckling Maroon Theater Stage Affirmative Action
  12/18/25
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
comical electric furnace
  12/19/25
Neon Bible better rec for younger kid
slippery psychic stage
  12/19/25
abridged edgar allen poe short stories
Multi-colored impertinent den
  12/19/25
https://kommandostore.com/products/republic-of-south-africa-...
mustard son of senegal sanctuary
  12/26/25


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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM
Author: irradiated crusty abode codepig

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: excitant office coldplay fan

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: big brilliant heaven

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: Aromatic blathering legal warrant doctorate



(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: comical electric furnace

"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: comical electric furnace

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: rambunctious sex offender mad cow disease

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: frozen property

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: comical electric furnace

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: black toaster

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: fishy adulterous feces school

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: Dashing ruby pisswyrm

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: irradiated crusty abode codepig

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: Dashing ruby pisswyrm

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: irradiated crusty abode codepig

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: Dashing ruby pisswyrm

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: hairraiser site

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: Well-lubricated step-uncle's house

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: hairraiser site

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: Well-lubricated step-uncle's house



(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: black toaster

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: Peach dragon

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: irradiated crusty abode codepig

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: Aqua shrine

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: irradiated crusty abode codepig

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: mahogany stubborn theatre dopamine

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: Odious Hell Sneaky Criminal

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: low-t rigpig

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: hairraiser site

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: bronze orchestra pit immigrant

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: appetizing cumskin

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: sick school cafeteria

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: appetizing cumskin

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: sick school cafeteria

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: Spectacular parlor mediation

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: Well-lubricated step-uncle's house

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: appetizing cumskin

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: Haunting insane party of the first part

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: frozen property

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: Haunting insane party of the first part

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: frozen property

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: Haunting insane party of the first part

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: frozen property

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: Well-lubricated step-uncle's house

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: slippery psychic stage

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: sick school cafeteria



(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: concupiscible institution

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: sick school cafeteria

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: shivering milk

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: adventurous crimson mad-dog skullcap prole

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: Light mildly autistic lay karate

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: sick school cafeteria

> 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: irradiated crusty abode codepig

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: Well-lubricated step-uncle's house

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: appetizing cumskin



(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: Peach dragon

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: appetizing cumskin

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: Flatulent indigo temple

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: Peach dragon



(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: Spectacular parlor mediation

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: bipolar big-titted area

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: chartreuse vibrant theater



(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: Swashbuckling Maroon Theater Stage Affirmative Action

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: comical electric furnace

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: slippery psychic stage

Neon Bible better rec for younger kid

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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:23 AM
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