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Book rec for boys ?

any books you read or wish you had read in high school? look...
Racy seedy filthpig
  12/18/25
I would have enjoyed sword and sorcery fantasy. Poul Anderso...
Razzle rusted scourge upon the earth degenerate
  12/18/25
https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712? Reasonable price, ...
Flickering brunch
  12/18/25
...
Coral Market
  12/18/25
"There's a trip to the farmers market and time for toys...
Black boltzmann
  12/19/25
this is now forever in my search history I want you dead,...
Black boltzmann
  12/19/25
mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel
Burgundy resort karate
  12/18/25
A few offhand: -On the Shortness of Life - Seneca -Sta...
marvelous address stain
  12/18/25
https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922329&mc=32&a...
Black boltzmann
  12/19/25
or have the kid wake up xmas morning to an ACTUAL bonfire of...
Comical legend
  12/19/25
The Illustrated Man Odyssey The International Jew 1984 M...
stirring legal warrant
  12/18/25
Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters
Wild Locale
  12/18/25
i think my side of the mountain was one of his summer readin...
Racy seedy filthpig
  12/18/25
Where the Red Fern Grows, All Quiet on the Western Front, Ce...
Wild Locale
  12/18/25
they did lord of the flies already. ill look up some of your...
Racy seedy filthpig
  12/18/25
180
Wild Locale
  12/18/25
The eyes and the impossible sourdough heart of samurai...
vermilion field deer antler
  12/18/25
rocket boys is 180
bonkers sticky abode
  12/18/25
Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo
vermilion field deer antler
  12/18/25
...
bonkers sticky abode
  12/19/25
weird group called the "rocket boys" ran the party...
Comical legend
  12/22/25
CR GOAT status books, but would one be "past" thos...
Nubile Stage Sandwich
  12/18/25
he’s 12/7th grade so i said high school since that&rsq...
Racy seedy filthpig
  12/18/25
The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano)
Gold Lascivious Hell Place Of Business
  12/18/25
ty for the recs, this is helpful i just asked him what bo...
Racy seedy filthpig
  12/18/25
Waste of time unless he's secretly 30+ years old and has rea...
Slap-happy internet-worthy indian lodge ape
  12/18/25
seconding count of monte cristo three musketeers is also ...
excitant magical property
  12/18/25
JackTales 🤡😳
odious pearly tanning salon
  12/18/25
those are for reading out loud , clown
vermilion field deer antler
  12/18/25
The Boy with Pink Hair by Perez Hilton https://www.amazon...
Fluffy tank lay
  12/18/25
Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz) We Were Soldiers Once… And...
titillating juggernaut
  12/18/25
are you seriously recommending a book on manhood written by ...
Puce Massive Garrison Chad
  12/18/25
I’m not even sure which author you’re talking ab...
titillating juggernaut
  12/18/25
lol
Puce Massive Garrison Chad
  12/18/25
he doesn't like the term gay or homo and instead prefers &qu...
mischievous electric furnace boistinker
  12/21/25
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000
bonkers sticky abode
  12/18/25
No young man of any worth can finish that and not have a bet...
titillating juggernaut
  12/18/25
James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard...
Doobsian Temple Friendly Grandma
  12/18/25
The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call.
marvelous address stain
  12/18/25
Once I got into the first one I burned through the rest (12 ...
Doobsian Temple Friendly Grandma
  12/18/25
Any chance you can recommend your top 5? I need some new boo...
marvelous address stain
  12/18/25
1. Goldfinger 2. Moonraker 3. Casino Royale 4. From Russ...
Doobsian Temple Friendly Grandma
  12/19/25
tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I th...
marvelous address stain
  12/21/25
cr
bonkers sticky abode
  12/18/25
Anabasis
Olive electric rehab
  12/18/25
...
Puce Massive Garrison Chad
  12/18/25
Flowers for Algernon
Effete Bright Public Bath
  12/18/25
The Lessons of History - Will & Ariel Durant Man's Sear...
Puce Massive Garrison Chad
  12/18/25
a song of ice and fire. I'm not a fantasy guy and I loved it...
onyx depressive
  12/18/25
Patrick O'Byrne's Master and Commander and related books in ...
Canary razzle-dazzle prole knife
  12/18/25
Hardy Boys (how old is your kid?) Zen and the Art of Motorc...
brilliant goal in life institution
  12/18/25
> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance lol
Puce Massive Garrison Chad
  12/18/25
read that, among others, for my contemporary thought class i...
Racy seedy filthpig
  12/18/25
zorba the greek
bonkers sticky abode
  12/18/25
...
titillating juggernaut
  12/18/25
Several good recs already upthread. Some others: The Thin...
Nubile Stage Sandwich
  12/18/25
Cr. list I feel like The Things They Carried got a bit ov...
titillating juggernaut
  12/18/25
The Things They Carried is the most classic writer's favorit...
Sapphire incel
  12/18/25
...
Nubile Stage Sandwich
  12/18/25
agree with the first sentence and rec. need to exercise cau...
mischievous electric furnace boistinker
  12/22/25
Watership Down A Day No Pigs Would Die 2nd Where the R...
Aromatic puppy
  12/18/25
...
khaki thirsty national
  12/18/25
Starship Troopers Enders Game Johnny Tremain Childhoods E...
Wine psychic
  12/18/25
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
Black boltzmann
  12/19/25
Neon Bible better rec for younger kid
Olive electric rehab
  12/19/25
abridged edgar allen poe short stories
contagious self-centered windowlicker bawdyhouse
  12/19/25
https://kommandostore.com/products/republic-of-south-africa-...
Blathering hunting ground range
  12/26/25


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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM
Author: Racy seedy filthpig

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: Razzle rusted scourge upon the earth degenerate

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: Flickering brunch

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: Coral Market



(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: Black boltzmann

"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: Black boltzmann

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: Burgundy resort karate

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: marvelous address stain

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: Black boltzmann

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: Comical legend

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: stirring legal warrant

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: Wild Locale

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: Racy seedy filthpig

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: Wild Locale

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: Racy seedy filthpig

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: Wild Locale

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: vermilion field deer antler

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: bonkers sticky abode

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: vermilion field deer antler

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: bonkers sticky abode



(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: Comical legend

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: Nubile Stage Sandwich

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: Racy seedy filthpig

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: Gold Lascivious Hell Place Of Business

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: Racy seedy filthpig

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: Slap-happy internet-worthy indian lodge ape

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: excitant magical property

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: odious pearly tanning salon

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: vermilion field deer antler

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: Fluffy tank lay

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: titillating juggernaut

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: Puce Massive Garrison Chad

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: titillating juggernaut

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: Puce Massive Garrison Chad

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: mischievous electric furnace boistinker

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: bonkers sticky abode

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: titillating juggernaut

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: Doobsian Temple Friendly Grandma

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: marvelous address stain

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: Doobsian Temple Friendly Grandma

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: marvelous address stain

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: Doobsian Temple Friendly Grandma

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: marvelous address stain

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: bonkers sticky abode

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: Olive electric rehab

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: Puce Massive Garrison Chad



(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: Effete Bright Public Bath

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: Puce Massive Garrison Chad

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: onyx depressive

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: Canary razzle-dazzle prole knife

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: brilliant goal in life institution

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: Puce Massive Garrison Chad

> 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: Racy seedy filthpig

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: bonkers sticky abode

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: titillating juggernaut



(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: Nubile Stage Sandwich

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: titillating juggernaut

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: Sapphire incel

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: Nubile Stage Sandwich



(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: mischievous electric furnace boistinker

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: Aromatic puppy

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: khaki thirsty national



(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: Wine psychic

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: Black boltzmann

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: Olive electric rehab

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: contagious self-centered windowlicker bawdyhouse

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Date: December 26th, 2025 12:37 AM
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