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any books you read or wish you had read in high school? look...
disrespectful laughsome casino roast beef
  12/18/25
I would have enjoyed sword and sorcery fantasy. Poul Anderso...
Chest-beating at-the-ready black woman
  12/18/25
https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712? Reasonable price, ...
startling mediation nursing home
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Aqua razzle hominid
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"There's a trip to the farmers market and time for toys...
CapTTTainFalcon
  12/19/25
this is now forever in my search history I want you dead,...
CapTTTainFalcon
  12/19/25
mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel
poppy home nowag
  12/18/25
A few offhand: -On the Shortness of Life - Seneca -Sta...
supple mustard jap
  12/18/25
https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922329&mc=32&a...
CapTTTainFalcon
  12/19/25
or have the kid wake up xmas morning to an ACTUAL bonfire of...
santa's top guy
  12/19/25
The Illustrated Man Odyssey The International Jew 1984 M...
Brindle Cuck Locale
  12/18/25
Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters
excitant out-of-control philosopher-king
  12/18/25
i think my side of the mountain was one of his summer readin...
disrespectful laughsome casino roast beef
  12/18/25
Where the Red Fern Grows, All Quiet on the Western Front, Ce...
excitant out-of-control philosopher-king
  12/18/25
they did lord of the flies already. ill look up some of your...
disrespectful laughsome casino roast beef
  12/18/25
180
excitant out-of-control philosopher-king
  12/18/25
The eyes and the impossible sourdough heart of samurai...
chrome offensive school
  12/18/25
rocket boys is 180
Swollen Circlehead Mother
  12/18/25
Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo
White Shoe & Magic Circle, TP
  12/18/25
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merry screenmas
  12/19/25
weird group called the "rocket boys" ran the party...
santa's top guy
  12/22/25
CR GOAT status books, but would one be "past" thos...
shaky laser beams
  12/18/25
he’s 12/7th grade so i said high school since that&rsq...
disrespectful laughsome casino roast beef
  12/18/25
The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano)
sooty mental disorder forum
  12/18/25
ty for the recs, this is helpful i just asked him what bo...
disrespectful laughsome casino roast beef
  12/18/25
Waste of time unless he's secretly 30+ years old and has rea...
bossy codepig
  12/18/25
seconding count of monte cristo three musketeers is also ...
Amber boltzmann
  12/18/25
JackTales 🤡😳
fighting vigorous faggotry native
  12/18/25
those are for reading out loud , clown
chrome offensive school
  12/18/25
The Boy with Pink Hair by Perez Hilton https://www.amazon...
big hall friendly grandma
  12/18/25
Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz) We Were Soldiers Once… And...
pontificating den feces
  12/18/25
are you seriously recommending a book on manhood written by ...
fiercely-loyal church
  12/18/25
I’m not even sure which author you’re talking ab...
pontificating den feces
  12/18/25
lol
fiercely-loyal church
  12/18/25
he doesn't like the term gay or homo and instead prefers &qu...
Kenneth Play
  12/21/25
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000
Swollen Circlehead Mother
  12/18/25
No young man of any worth can finish that and not have a bet...
Emperor CRISPR Chad von Neumann III
  12/18/25
James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard...
comical nudist university
  12/18/25
The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call.
supple mustard jap
  12/18/25
Once I got into the first one I burned through the rest (12 ...
comical nudist university
  12/18/25
Any chance you can recommend your top 5? I need some new boo...
supple mustard jap
  12/18/25
1. Goldfinger 2. Moonraker 3. Casino Royale 4. From Russ...
bigeastboy
  12/19/25
tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I th...
Yummy Phase Pol Pot
  12/21/25
cr
Swollen Circlehead Mother
  12/18/25
Anabasis
Bistre marvelous school cafeteria toaster
  12/18/25
...
fiercely-loyal church
  12/18/25
Flowers for Algernon
razzmatazz spot sweet tailpipe
  12/18/25
The Lessons of History - Will & Ariel Durant Man's Sear...
fiercely-loyal church
  12/18/25
a song of ice and fire. I'm not a fantasy guy and I loved it...
shimmering puppy
  12/18/25
Patrick O'Byrne's Master and Commander and related books in ...
azure cerebral piazza
  12/18/25
Hardy Boys (how old is your kid?) Zen and the Art of Motorc...
pungent talented business firm
  12/18/25
> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance lol
fiercely-loyal church
  12/18/25
read that, among others, for my contemporary thought class i...
disrespectful laughsome casino roast beef
  12/18/25
zorba the greek
Swollen Circlehead Mother
  12/18/25
...
pontificating den feces
  12/18/25
Several good recs already upthread. Some others: The Thin...
shaky laser beams
  12/18/25
Cr. list I feel like The Things They Carried got a bit ov...
Emperor CRISPR Chad von Neumann III
  12/18/25
The Things They Carried is the most classic writer's favorit...
fulano
  12/18/25
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Nazca Redlines
  12/18/25
agree with the first sentence and rec. need to exercise cau...
Kenneth Play
  12/22/25
Watership Down A Day No Pigs Would Die 2nd Where the R...
Mint heaven party of the first part
  12/18/25
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-retiered-
  12/18/25
Starship Troopers Enders Game Johnny Tremain Childhoods E...
Diane Rehm talking dirty
  12/18/25
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
CapTTTainFalcon
  12/19/25
Neon Bible better rec for younger kid
the cathedral of light
  12/19/25
abridged edgar allen poe short stories
Ozzie Canseco
  12/19/25


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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM
Author: disrespectful laughsome casino roast beef

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: Chest-beating at-the-ready black woman

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: startling mediation nursing home

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: Aqua razzle hominid



(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: CapTTTainFalcon

"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: CapTTTainFalcon

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: poppy home nowag

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: supple mustard jap

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: CapTTTainFalcon

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: santa's top guy

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: Brindle Cuck Locale

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: excitant out-of-control philosopher-king

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: disrespectful laughsome casino roast beef

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: excitant out-of-control philosopher-king

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: disrespectful laughsome casino roast beef

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: excitant out-of-control philosopher-king

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: chrome offensive school

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: Swollen Circlehead Mother

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: White Shoe & Magic Circle, TP

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: merry screenmas



(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: santa's top guy

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: shaky laser beams

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: disrespectful laughsome casino roast beef

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: sooty mental disorder 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: disrespectful laughsome casino roast beef

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: bossy codepig

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: Amber boltzmann

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: fighting vigorous faggotry native

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: chrome offensive school

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: big hall friendly grandma

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: pontificating den feces

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: fiercely-loyal church

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: pontificating den feces

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: fiercely-loyal church

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: Kenneth Play (emotional girth)

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: Swollen Circlehead Mother

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: Emperor CRISPR Chad von Neumann III

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: comical nudist university

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: supple mustard jap

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: comical nudist university

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: supple mustard jap

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: bigeastboy

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: Yummy Phase Pol Pot

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: Swollen Circlehead Mother

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: Bistre marvelous school cafeteria toaster

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: fiercely-loyal church



(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: razzmatazz spot sweet tailpipe

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: fiercely-loyal church

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: shimmering puppy

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: azure cerebral piazza

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: pungent talented business firm

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: fiercely-loyal church

> 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: disrespectful laughsome casino roast beef

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: Swollen Circlehead Mother

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: pontificating den feces



(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: shaky laser beams

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: Emperor CRISPR Chad von Neumann III

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: fulano

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: Nazca Redlines



(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: Kenneth Play (emotional girth)

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: Mint heaven party of the first part

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: -retiered-



(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: Diane Rehm talking dirty (🐿️ )

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: CapTTTainFalcon

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: the cathedral of light

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: Ozzie Canseco

abridged edgar allen poe short stories

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