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any books you read or wish you had read in high school? look...
Painfully honest impressive church building jewess
  12/18/25
I would have enjoyed sword and sorcery fantasy. Poul Anderso...
Swashbuckling french chef sound barrier
  12/18/25
https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712? Reasonable price, ...
Khaki theater
  12/18/25
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Jade meetinghouse idiot
  12/18/25
"There's a trip to the farmers market and time for toys...
razzmatazz primrose space
  12/19/25
this is now forever in my search history I want you dead,...
razzmatazz primrose space
  12/19/25
mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel
lavender hall
  12/18/25
A few offhand: -On the Shortness of Life - Seneca -Sta...
french stubborn address laser beams
  12/18/25
https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922329&mc=32&a...
razzmatazz primrose space
  12/19/25
or have the kid wake up xmas morning to an ACTUAL bonfire of...
chartreuse insanely creepy nursing home
  12/19/25
The Illustrated Man Odyssey The International Jew 1984 M...
alcoholic seedy forum affirmative action
  12/18/25
Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters
ocher point
  12/18/25
i think my side of the mountain was one of his summer readin...
Painfully honest impressive church building jewess
  12/18/25
Where the Red Fern Grows, All Quiet on the Western Front, Ce...
ocher point
  12/18/25
they did lord of the flies already. ill look up some of your...
Painfully honest impressive church building jewess
  12/18/25
180
ocher point
  12/18/25
The eyes and the impossible sourdough heart of samurai...
wonderful newt
  12/18/25
rocket boys is 180
Underhanded Base Ladyboy
  12/18/25
Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo
wonderful newt
  12/18/25
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Underhanded Base Ladyboy
  12/19/25
weird group called the "rocket boys" ran the party...
chartreuse insanely creepy nursing home
  12/22/25
CR GOAT status books, but would one be "past" thos...
Milky potus black woman
  12/18/25
he’s 12/7th grade so i said high school since that&rsq...
Painfully honest impressive church building jewess
  12/18/25
The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano)
impertinent naked library
  12/18/25
ty for the recs, this is helpful i just asked him what bo...
Painfully honest impressive church building jewess
  12/18/25
Waste of time unless he's secretly 30+ years old and has rea...
Odious Fanboi Locus
  12/18/25
seconding count of monte cristo three musketeers is also ...
bearded buff stag film headpube
  12/18/25
JackTales 🤡😳
fluffy ruby haunted graveyard
  12/18/25
those are for reading out loud , clown
wonderful newt
  12/18/25
The Boy with Pink Hair by Perez Hilton https://www.amazon...
sinister queen of the night
  12/18/25
Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz) We Were Soldiers Once… And...
insecure rehab
  12/18/25
are you seriously recommending a book on manhood written by ...
dark fighting station dysfunction
  12/18/25
I’m not even sure which author you’re talking ab...
insecure rehab
  12/18/25
lol
dark fighting station dysfunction
  12/18/25
he doesn't like the term gay or homo and instead prefers &qu...
Arrogant background story site
  12/21/25
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000
Underhanded Base Ladyboy
  12/18/25
No young man of any worth can finish that and not have a bet...
insecure rehab
  12/18/25
James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard...
sapphire alcoholic state pocket flask
  12/18/25
The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call.
french stubborn address laser beams
  12/18/25
Once I got into the first one I burned through the rest (12 ...
sapphire alcoholic state pocket flask
  12/18/25
Any chance you can recommend your top 5? I need some new boo...
french stubborn address laser beams
  12/18/25
1. Goldfinger 2. Moonraker 3. Casino Royale 4. From Russ...
sapphire alcoholic state pocket flask
  12/19/25
tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I th...
french stubborn address laser beams
  12/21/25
cr
Underhanded Base Ladyboy
  12/18/25
Anabasis
irradiated well-lubricated prole
  12/18/25
...
dark fighting station dysfunction
  12/18/25
Flowers for Algernon
cerise beta degenerate
  12/18/25
The Lessons of History - Will & Ariel Durant Man's Sear...
dark fighting station dysfunction
  12/18/25
a song of ice and fire. I'm not a fantasy guy and I loved it...
Purple menage multi-billionaire
  12/18/25
Patrick O'Byrne's Master and Commander and related books in ...
unholy orchestra pit twinkling uncleanness
  12/18/25
Hardy Boys (how old is your kid?) Zen and the Art of Motorc...
gay anal quadroon abode
  12/18/25
> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance lol
dark fighting station dysfunction
  12/18/25
read that, among others, for my contemporary thought class i...
Painfully honest impressive church building jewess
  12/18/25
zorba the greek
Underhanded Base Ladyboy
  12/18/25
...
insecure rehab
  12/18/25
Several good recs already upthread. Some others: The Thin...
Milky potus black woman
  12/18/25
Cr. list I feel like The Things They Carried got a bit ov...
insecure rehab
  12/18/25
The Things They Carried is the most classic writer's favorit...
razzle pisswyrm institution
  12/18/25
...
Milky potus black woman
  12/18/25
agree with the first sentence and rec. need to exercise cau...
Arrogant background story site
  12/22/25
Watership Down A Day No Pigs Would Die 2nd Where the R...
Passionate idiotic juggernaut
  12/18/25
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electric honey-headed lay
  12/18/25
Starship Troopers Enders Game Johnny Tremain Childhoods E...
brass geriatric fortuitous meteor
  12/18/25
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
razzmatazz primrose space
  12/19/25
Neon Bible better rec for younger kid
irradiated well-lubricated prole
  12/19/25
abridged edgar allen poe short stories
heady public bath boistinker
  12/19/25
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM
Author: Painfully honest impressive church building jewess

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: Swashbuckling french chef sound barrier

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: Khaki theater

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: Jade meetinghouse idiot



(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: razzmatazz primrose space

"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: razzmatazz primrose space

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: lavender hall

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: french stubborn address laser beams

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: razzmatazz primrose space

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: chartreuse insanely creepy nursing home

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: alcoholic seedy forum affirmative action

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: ocher point

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: Painfully honest impressive church building jewess

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: ocher point

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: Painfully honest impressive church building jewess

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: ocher point

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: wonderful newt

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: Underhanded Base Ladyboy

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: wonderful newt

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: Underhanded Base Ladyboy



(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: chartreuse insanely creepy nursing home

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: Milky potus black woman

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: Painfully honest impressive church building jewess

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: impertinent naked library

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: Painfully honest impressive church building jewess

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: Odious Fanboi Locus

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: bearded buff stag film headpube

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: fluffy ruby haunted graveyard

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: wonderful newt

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: sinister queen of the night

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: insecure rehab

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: dark fighting station dysfunction

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: insecure rehab

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: dark fighting station dysfunction

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: Arrogant background story site

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: Underhanded Base Ladyboy

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: insecure rehab

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: sapphire alcoholic state pocket flask

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: french stubborn address laser beams

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: sapphire alcoholic state pocket flask

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: french stubborn address laser beams

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: sapphire alcoholic state pocket flask

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: french stubborn address laser beams

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: Underhanded Base Ladyboy

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: irradiated well-lubricated prole

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: dark fighting station dysfunction



(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: cerise beta degenerate

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: dark fighting station dysfunction

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: Purple menage multi-billionaire

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: unholy orchestra pit twinkling uncleanness

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: gay anal quadroon abode

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: dark fighting station dysfunction

> 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: Painfully honest impressive church building jewess

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: Underhanded Base Ladyboy

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: insecure rehab



(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: Milky potus black woman

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: insecure rehab

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: razzle pisswyrm institution

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: Milky potus black woman



(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: Arrogant background story site

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: Passionate idiotic juggernaut

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: electric honey-headed lay



(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: brass geriatric fortuitous meteor

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: razzmatazz primrose space

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: irradiated well-lubricated prole

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: heady public bath boistinker

abridged edgar allen poe short stories

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Date: December 26th, 2025 12:37 AM
Author: Blue glittery immigrant

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