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Book rec for boys ?

any books you read or wish you had read in high school? look...
Floppy greedy pervert
  12/18/25
I would have enjoyed sword and sorcery fantasy. Poul Anderso...
yapping jade cuck love of her life
  12/18/25
https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712? Reasonable price, ...
pungent sweet tailpipe public bath
  12/18/25
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Aquamarine twinkling uncleanness
  12/18/25
"There's a trip to the farmers market and time for toys...
haunting old irish cottage business firm
  12/19/25
this is now forever in my search history I want you dead,...
haunting old irish cottage business firm
  12/19/25
mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel
marvelous newt
  12/18/25
A few offhand: -On the Shortness of Life - Seneca -Sta...
Big native
  12/18/25
https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922329&mc=32&a...
haunting old irish cottage business firm
  12/19/25
or have the kid wake up xmas morning to an ACTUAL bonfire of...
disrespectful chocolate factory reset button
  12/19/25
The Illustrated Man Odyssey The International Jew 1984 M...
Buff nursing home shitlib
  12/18/25
Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters
provocative haunted graveyard theater
  12/18/25
i think my side of the mountain was one of his summer readin...
Floppy greedy pervert
  12/18/25
Where the Red Fern Grows, All Quiet on the Western Front, Ce...
provocative haunted graveyard theater
  12/18/25
they did lord of the flies already. ill look up some of your...
Floppy greedy pervert
  12/18/25
180
provocative haunted graveyard theater
  12/18/25
The eyes and the impossible sourdough heart of samurai...
Irradiated filthpig house
  12/18/25
rocket boys is 180
well-lubricated dilemma
  12/18/25
Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo
Irradiated filthpig house
  12/18/25
...
well-lubricated dilemma
  12/19/25
weird group called the "rocket boys" ran the party...
disrespectful chocolate factory reset button
  12/22/25
CR GOAT status books, but would one be "past" thos...
walnut double fault
  12/18/25
he’s 12/7th grade so i said high school since that&rsq...
Floppy greedy pervert
  12/18/25
The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano)
stirring deranged forum
  12/18/25
ty for the recs, this is helpful i just asked him what bo...
Floppy greedy pervert
  12/18/25
Waste of time unless he's secretly 30+ years old and has rea...
Naked appetizing point
  12/18/25
seconding count of monte cristo three musketeers is also ...
vigorous locus new version
  12/18/25
JackTales 🤡😳
Hyperventilating ruby kitchen
  12/18/25
those are for reading out loud , clown
Irradiated filthpig house
  12/18/25
The Boy with Pink Hair by Perez Hilton https://www.amazon...
Slap-happy menage circlehead
  12/18/25
Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz) We Were Soldiers Once… And...
Rough-skinned diverse station
  12/18/25
are you seriously recommending a book on manhood written by ...
Flesh Vivacious Pit
  12/18/25
I’m not even sure which author you’re talking ab...
Rough-skinned diverse station
  12/18/25
lol
Flesh Vivacious Pit
  12/18/25
he doesn't like the term gay or homo and instead prefers &qu...
french abode brethren
  12/21/25
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000
well-lubricated dilemma
  12/18/25
No young man of any worth can finish that and not have a bet...
Rough-skinned diverse station
  12/18/25
James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard...
saffron site depressive
  12/18/25
The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call.
Big native
  12/18/25
Once I got into the first one I burned through the rest (12 ...
saffron site depressive
  12/18/25
Any chance you can recommend your top 5? I need some new boo...
Big native
  12/18/25
1. Goldfinger 2. Moonraker 3. Casino Royale 4. From Russ...
saffron site depressive
  12/19/25
tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I th...
Big native
  12/21/25
cr
well-lubricated dilemma
  12/18/25
Anabasis
spruce concupiscible corn cake
  12/18/25
...
Flesh Vivacious Pit
  12/18/25
Flowers for Algernon
spectacular tripping meetinghouse idiot
  12/18/25
The Lessons of History - Will & Ariel Durant Man's Sear...
Flesh Vivacious Pit
  12/18/25
a song of ice and fire. I'm not a fantasy guy and I loved it...
fragrant school athletic conference
  12/18/25
Patrick O'Byrne's Master and Commander and related books in ...
talking stimulating box office legal warrant
  12/18/25
Hardy Boys (how old is your kid?) Zen and the Art of Motorc...
Awkward Jet Tanning Salon Incel
  12/18/25
> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance lol
Flesh Vivacious Pit
  12/18/25
read that, among others, for my contemporary thought class i...
Floppy greedy pervert
  12/18/25
zorba the greek
well-lubricated dilemma
  12/18/25
...
Rough-skinned diverse station
  12/18/25
Several good recs already upthread. Some others: The Thin...
walnut double fault
  12/18/25
Cr. list I feel like The Things They Carried got a bit ov...
Rough-skinned diverse station
  12/18/25
The Things They Carried is the most classic writer's favorit...
Wild salmon hairy legs den
  12/18/25
...
walnut double fault
  12/18/25
agree with the first sentence and rec. need to exercise cau...
french abode brethren
  12/22/25
Watership Down A Day No Pigs Would Die 2nd Where the R...
Exhilarant Milk
  12/18/25
...
Ungodly sneaky criminal
  12/18/25
Starship Troopers Enders Game Johnny Tremain Childhoods E...
lascivious arrogant gas station patrolman
  12/18/25
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
haunting old irish cottage business firm
  12/19/25
Neon Bible better rec for younger kid
spruce concupiscible corn cake
  12/19/25
abridged edgar allen poe short stories
Pale Crotch
  12/19/25
https://kommandostore.com/products/republic-of-south-africa-...
burgundy address hissy fit
  12/26/25


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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM
Author: Floppy greedy pervert

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: yapping jade cuck love of her life

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: pungent sweet tailpipe public bath

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: Aquamarine twinkling uncleanness



(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: haunting old irish cottage business firm

"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: haunting old irish cottage business firm

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: marvelous newt

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: Big native

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: haunting old irish cottage business firm

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: disrespectful chocolate factory reset button

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: Buff nursing home shitlib

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: provocative haunted graveyard theater

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: Floppy greedy pervert

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: provocative haunted graveyard theater

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: Floppy greedy pervert

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: provocative haunted graveyard theater

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: Irradiated filthpig house

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 dilemma

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: Irradiated filthpig house

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 dilemma



(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: disrespectful chocolate factory reset button

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: walnut double fault

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: Floppy greedy pervert

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: stirring deranged forum

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: Floppy greedy pervert

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: Naked appetizing point

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: vigorous locus new version

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: Hyperventilating ruby kitchen

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: Irradiated filthpig house

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: Slap-happy menage circlehead

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: Rough-skinned diverse station

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: Flesh Vivacious Pit

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: Rough-skinned diverse station

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: Flesh Vivacious Pit

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: french abode brethren

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 dilemma

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: Rough-skinned diverse station

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: saffron site depressive

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: Big native

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: saffron site depressive

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: Big native

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: saffron site depressive

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: Big native

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 dilemma

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: spruce concupiscible corn cake

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: Flesh Vivacious Pit



(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: spectacular tripping meetinghouse idiot

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: Flesh Vivacious Pit

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: fragrant school athletic conference

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: talking stimulating box office legal warrant

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: Awkward Jet Tanning Salon Incel

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: Flesh Vivacious Pit

> 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: Floppy greedy pervert

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 dilemma

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: Rough-skinned diverse station



(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: walnut double fault

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: Rough-skinned diverse station

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: Wild salmon hairy legs den

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: walnut double fault



(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: french abode brethren

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 Milk

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: Ungodly sneaky criminal



(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: lascivious arrogant gas station patrolman

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: haunting old irish cottage business firm

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: spruce concupiscible corn cake

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: Pale Crotch

abridged edgar allen poe short stories

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