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any books you read or wish you had read in high school? look...
passionate home
  12/18/25
I would have enjoyed sword and sorcery fantasy. Poul Anderso...
Carnelian national psychic
  12/18/25
https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712? Reasonable price, ...
180 adulterous chapel
  12/18/25
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  12/18/25
"There's a trip to the farmers market and time for toys...
lake really tough guy
  12/19/25
this is now forever in my search history I want you dead,...
lake really tough guy
  12/19/25
mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel
vigorous office
  12/18/25
A few offhand: -On the Shortness of Life - Seneca -Sta...
brass national security agency
  12/18/25
https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922329&mc=32&a...
lake really tough guy
  12/19/25
or have the kid wake up xmas morning to an ACTUAL bonfire of...
Red nibblets
  12/19/25
The Illustrated Man Odyssey The International Jew 1984 M...
shimmering adventurous principal's office
  12/18/25
Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters
Autistic frum field
  12/18/25
i think my side of the mountain was one of his summer readin...
passionate home
  12/18/25
Where the Red Fern Grows, All Quiet on the Western Front, Ce...
Autistic frum field
  12/18/25
they did lord of the flies already. ill look up some of your...
passionate home
  12/18/25
180
Autistic frum field
  12/18/25
The eyes and the impossible sourdough heart of samurai...
Supple flirting garrison
  12/18/25
rocket boys is 180
disturbing tattoo reading party
  12/18/25
Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo
Supple flirting garrison
  12/18/25
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disturbing tattoo reading party
  12/19/25
weird group called the "rocket boys" ran the party...
Red nibblets
  12/22/25
CR GOAT status books, but would one be "past" thos...
soul-stirring space
  12/18/25
he’s 12/7th grade so i said high school since that&rsq...
passionate home
  12/18/25
The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano)
At-the-ready Fragrant Rehab Idiot
  12/18/25
ty for the recs, this is helpful i just asked him what bo...
passionate home
  12/18/25
Waste of time unless he's secretly 30+ years old and has rea...
boyish lilac market potus
  12/18/25
seconding count of monte cristo three musketeers is also ...
copper native
  12/18/25
JackTales 🤡😳
Effete splenetic nowag
  12/18/25
those are for reading out loud , clown
Supple flirting garrison
  12/18/25
The Boy with Pink Hair by Perez Hilton https://www.amazon...
slippery stead
  12/18/25
Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz) We Were Soldiers Once… And...
crystalline rebellious brunch private investor
  12/18/25
are you seriously recommending a book on manhood written by ...
anal party of the first part plaza
  12/18/25
I’m not even sure which author you’re talking ab...
crystalline rebellious brunch private investor
  12/18/25
lol
anal party of the first part plaza
  12/18/25
he doesn't like the term gay or homo and instead prefers &qu...
sooty racy haunted graveyard property
  12/21/25
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000
disturbing tattoo reading party
  12/18/25
No young man of any worth can finish that and not have a bet...
crystalline rebellious brunch private investor
  12/18/25
James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard...
bonkers demanding old irish cottage
  12/18/25
The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call.
brass national security agency
  12/18/25
Once I got into the first one I burned through the rest (12 ...
bonkers demanding old irish cottage
  12/18/25
Any chance you can recommend your top 5? I need some new boo...
brass national security agency
  12/18/25
1. Goldfinger 2. Moonraker 3. Casino Royale 4. From Russ...
bonkers demanding old irish cottage
  12/19/25
tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I th...
brass national security agency
  12/21/25
cr
disturbing tattoo reading party
  12/18/25
Anabasis
Cruel-hearted site
  12/18/25
...
anal party of the first part plaza
  12/18/25
Flowers for Algernon
Slimy stage pistol
  12/18/25
The Lessons of History - Will & Ariel Durant Man's Sear...
anal party of the first part plaza
  12/18/25
a song of ice and fire. I'm not a fantasy guy and I loved it...
gay quadroon
  12/18/25
Patrick O'Byrne's Master and Commander and related books in ...
Bat shit crazy crimson school cafeteria degenerate
  12/18/25
Hardy Boys (how old is your kid?) Zen and the Art of Motorc...
Fishy dysfunction casino
  12/18/25
> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance lol
anal party of the first part plaza
  12/18/25
read that, among others, for my contemporary thought class i...
passionate home
  12/18/25
zorba the greek
disturbing tattoo reading party
  12/18/25
...
crystalline rebellious brunch private investor
  12/18/25
Several good recs already upthread. Some others: The Thin...
soul-stirring space
  12/18/25
Cr. list I feel like The Things They Carried got a bit ov...
crystalline rebellious brunch private investor
  12/18/25
The Things They Carried is the most classic writer's favorit...
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  12/18/25
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soul-stirring space
  12/18/25
agree with the first sentence and rec. need to exercise cau...
sooty racy haunted graveyard property
  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...
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  12/18/25
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
lake really tough guy
  12/19/25
Neon Bible better rec for younger kid
Cruel-hearted site
  12/19/25
abridged edgar allen poe short stories
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM
Author: passionate home

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: Carnelian national psychic

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: 180 adulterous chapel

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: sable parlour sound barrier



(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: lake really tough guy

"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: lake really tough guy

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: vigorous office

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: brass national security agency

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: lake really tough guy

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: Red nibblets

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: shimmering adventurous principal's office

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: Autistic frum field

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: passionate home

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: Autistic frum field

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: passionate home

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: Autistic frum field

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: Supple flirting garrison

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: disturbing tattoo reading party

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: Supple flirting garrison

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: disturbing tattoo reading party



(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: Red nibblets

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: soul-stirring space

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: passionate home

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: At-the-ready Fragrant Rehab Idiot

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: passionate home

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: boyish lilac market potus

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: copper native

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: Effete splenetic nowag

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: Supple flirting garrison

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: slippery stead

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: crystalline rebellious brunch private investor

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: anal party of the first part plaza

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: crystalline rebellious brunch private investor

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: anal party of the first part plaza

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: sooty racy haunted graveyard property

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: disturbing tattoo reading party

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: crystalline rebellious brunch private investor

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: bonkers demanding old irish cottage

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: brass national security agency

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: bonkers demanding old irish cottage

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: brass national security agency

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: bonkers demanding old irish cottage

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: brass national security agency

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: disturbing tattoo reading party

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: Cruel-hearted site

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: anal party of the first part plaza



(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: Slimy stage pistol

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: anal party of the first part plaza

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: gay quadroon

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: Bat shit crazy crimson school cafeteria degenerate

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: Fishy dysfunction casino

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: anal party of the first part plaza

> 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: passionate home

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: disturbing tattoo reading party

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: crystalline rebellious brunch private investor



(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: soul-stirring space

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: crystalline rebellious brunch private investor

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: citrine scourge upon the earth immigrant

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: soul-stirring space



(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: sooty racy haunted graveyard property

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: Exhilarant stage

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: galvanic canary resort black woman



(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: green theatre

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: lake really tough guy

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: Cruel-hearted site

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: Spruce useless senate

abridged edgar allen poe short stories

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



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