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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM Author: Stirring library 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) |
Date: December 18th, 2025 1:15 PM Author: Sinister Supple Immigrant Idea He Suggested 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: misunderstood church striped hyena https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712?
Reasonable price, free shipping. |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:21 PM Author: Fighting piazza corn cake (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: Arrogant sticky macaca resort "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 |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:42 AM Author: Arrogant sticky macaca resort this is now forever in my search history
I want you dead, Malk Poo |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:21 PM Author: purple parlor 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: Wine chest-beating hell pocket flask 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 |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:10 AM Author: Arrogant sticky macaca resort 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: obsidian meetinghouse mediation or have the kid wake up xmas morning to an ACTUAL bonfire of his vanities
toughens him up a bit. |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:23 PM Author: Razzmatazz honey-headed yarmulke The Illustrated Man Odyssey The International Jew 1984 Meditations The Myth of Sisyphus Hamlet |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:27 PM Author: gold business firm friendly grandma 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: Stirring library i think my side of the mountain was one of his summer reading assignments
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:34 PM Author: gold business firm friendly grandma 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: Stirring library 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 |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:45 PM Author: gold business firm friendly grandma 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: swashbuckling fluffy rehab The eyes and the impossible
sourdough
heart of samurai
artemis
rocket boys |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:13 PM Author: unhinged french depressive multi-billionaire 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: swashbuckling fluffy rehab 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: unhinged french depressive multi-billionaire (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: obsidian meetinghouse mediation 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: slap-happy school cafeteria organic girlfriend 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. |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:00 PM Author: Stirring library 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: Black School Main People 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: Stirring library 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 |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:24 PM Author: bipolar institution 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. |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:29 PM Author: Misanthropic sepia associate seconding count of monte cristo
three musketeers is also great and vastly superior to any adaptation |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:29 PM Author: gay spectacular field hunting ground 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: swashbuckling fluffy rehab those are for reading out loud , clown
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM Author: Vigorous athletic conference The Boy with Pink Hair by Perez Hilton
https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Pink-Hair-Perez-Hilton/dp/0451234200 |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:32 PM Author: Erotic costumed crotch Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz)
We Were Soldiers Once… And Young (Moore & Galloway)
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage (Lansing)
The Way of Men (Donovan)
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:35 PM Author: electric ultramarine philosopher-king mother 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: Erotic costumed crotch 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: electric ultramarine philosopher-king mother 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: irradiated 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 |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:46 PM Author: unhinged french depressive multi-billionaire 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: Erotic costumed crotch 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. |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:33 PM Author: Concupiscible Umber Doctorate James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard originals though) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:39 PM Author: Wine chest-beating hell pocket flask 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: Concupiscible Umber Doctorate 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: Wine chest-beating hell pocket flask 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: Concupiscible Umber Doctorate 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. |
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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:44 PM Author: Wine chest-beating hell pocket flask 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: unhinged french depressive multi-billionaire 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: domesticated green haunted graveyard 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: electric ultramarine philosopher-king mother (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: Bearded Claret Incel Abode 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: electric ultramarine philosopher-king mother The Lessons of History - Will & Ariel Durant Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:55 PM Author: Light mind-boggling stage marketing idea 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: federal big death wish 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: unholy aphrodisiac jew shrine Hardy Boys (how old is your kid?) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Dune anything recent by Lawrence Millman |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:37 PM Author: electric ultramarine philosopher-king mother > Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
lol |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:01 PM Author: Stirring library 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: unhinged french depressive multi-billionaire zorba the greek
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:49 PM Author: Erotic costumed crotch (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: slap-happy school cafeteria organic girlfriend 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 |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:30 PM Author: Erotic costumed crotch 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 |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:55 PM Author: racy dingle berry 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: slap-happy school cafeteria organic girlfriend (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: irradiated 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: hairraiser avocado house Watership Down
A Day No Pigs Would Die
2nd Where the Red Fern Grows |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:33 PM Author: cerebral pozpig roast beef (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: Bull headed laughsome cruise ship Starship Troopers Enders Game Johnny Tremain Childhoods End Rama
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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:16 AM Author: Arrogant sticky macaca resort 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: domesticated green haunted graveyard 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: Khaki plaza generalized bond abridged edgar allen poe short stories (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49521706) |
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Date: December 26th, 2025 12:37 AM Author: fiercely-loyal dilemma toilet seat https://kommandostore.com/products/republic-of-south-africa-unconventional-warfare-complete-book-set? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49540099) |