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any books you read or wish you had read in high school? look...
Cracking Pearl Ratface
  12/18/25
I would have enjoyed sword and sorcery fantasy. Poul Anderso...
Awkward area
  12/18/25
https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712? Reasonable price, ...
Ebony faggotry
  12/18/25
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Sooty parlor stock car
  12/18/25
"There's a trip to the farmers market and time for toys...
Haunting brass deer antler
  12/19/25
this is now forever in my search history I want you dead,...
Haunting brass deer antler
  12/19/25
mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel
Passionate domesticated public bath
  12/18/25
A few offhand: -On the Shortness of Life - Seneca -Sta...
chestnut liquid oxygen feces
  12/18/25
https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922329&mc=32&a...
Haunting brass deer antler
  12/19/25
or have the kid wake up xmas morning to an ACTUAL bonfire of...
marvelous incel orchestra pit
  12/19/25
...
exciting sapphire pit
  12/18/25
Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters
cocky market
  12/18/25
i think my side of the mountain was one of his summer readin...
Cracking Pearl Ratface
  12/18/25
Where the Red Fern Grows, All Quiet on the Western Front, Ce...
cocky market
  12/18/25
they did lord of the flies already. ill look up some of your...
Cracking Pearl Ratface
  12/18/25
180
cocky market
  12/18/25
The eyes and the impossible sourdough heart of samurai...
Impressive dilemma potus
  12/18/25
rocket boys is 180
Bateful red ticket booth half-breed
  12/18/25
Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo
Impressive dilemma potus
  12/18/25
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Bateful red ticket booth half-breed
  12/19/25
weird group called the "rocket boys" ran the party...
marvelous incel orchestra pit
  12/22/25
CR GOAT status books, but would one be "past" thos...
flushed field chad
  12/18/25
he’s 12/7th grade so i said high school since that&rsq...
Cracking Pearl Ratface
  12/18/25
The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano)
hideous hell
  12/18/25
ty for the recs, this is helpful i just asked him what bo...
Cracking Pearl Ratface
  12/18/25
Waste of time unless he's secretly 30+ years old and has rea...
Plum step-uncle's house preventive strike
  12/18/25
seconding count of monte cristo three musketeers is also ...
Costumed jet digit ratio
  12/18/25
JackTales 🤡😳
Vibrant maroon nowag
  12/18/25
those are for reading out loud , clown
Impressive dilemma potus
  12/18/25
The Boy with Pink Hair by Perez Hilton https://www.amazon...
aquamarine yarmulke
  12/18/25
Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz) We Were Soldiers Once… And...
Medicated sick gas station degenerate
  12/18/25
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Impertinent Obsidian Business Firm Love Of Her Life
  12/18/25
I’m not even sure which author you’re talking ab...
Medicated sick gas station degenerate
  12/18/25
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Impertinent Obsidian Business Firm Love Of Her Life
  12/18/25
he doesn't like the term gay or homo and instead prefers &qu...
smoky irradiated stag film
  12/21/25
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000
Bateful red ticket booth half-breed
  12/18/25
No young man of any worth can finish that and not have a bet...
Medicated sick gas station degenerate
  12/18/25
James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard...
Lime vivacious antidepressant drug
  12/18/25
The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call.
chestnut liquid oxygen feces
  12/18/25
Once I got into the first one I burned through the rest (12 ...
Lime vivacious antidepressant drug
  12/18/25
Any chance you can recommend your top 5? I need some new boo...
chestnut liquid oxygen feces
  12/18/25
1. Goldfinger 2. Moonraker 3. Casino Royale 4. From Russ...
Lime vivacious antidepressant drug
  12/19/25
tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I th...
chestnut liquid oxygen feces
  12/21/25
cr
Bateful red ticket booth half-breed
  12/18/25
Anabasis
deep nighttime resort elastic band
  12/18/25
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Impertinent Obsidian Business Firm Love Of Her Life
  12/18/25
Flowers for Algernon
black concupiscible office
  12/18/25
...
Impertinent Obsidian Business Firm Love Of Her Life
  12/18/25
a song of ice and fire. I'm not a fantasy guy and I loved it...
aggressive lilac keepsake machete space
  12/18/25
Patrick O'Byrne's Master and Commander and related books in ...
Adulterous plaza
  12/18/25
Hardy Boys (how old is your kid?) Zen and the Art of Motorc...
beta mother
  12/18/25
...
Impertinent Obsidian Business Firm Love Of Her Life
  12/18/25
read that, among others, for my contemporary thought class i...
Cracking Pearl Ratface
  12/18/25
zorba the greek
Bateful red ticket booth half-breed
  12/18/25
...
Medicated sick gas station degenerate
  12/18/25
Several good recs already upthread. Some others: The Thin...
flushed field chad
  12/18/25
Cr. list I feel like The Things They Carried got a bit ov...
Medicated sick gas station degenerate
  12/18/25
The Things They Carried is the most classic writer's favorit...
alcoholic crackhouse
  12/18/25
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flushed field chad
  12/18/25
agree with the first sentence and rec. need to exercise cau...
smoky irradiated stag film
  12/22/25
Watership Down A Day No Pigs Would Die 2nd Where the R...
talented becky persian
  12/18/25
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umber startled hall
  12/18/25
Starship Troopers Enders Game Johnny Tremain Childhoods E...
lascivious mad-dog skullcap lodge
  12/18/25
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
Haunting brass deer antler
  12/19/25
Neon Bible better rec for younger kid
deep nighttime resort elastic band
  12/19/25
abridged edgar allen poe short stories
mauve mischievous people who are hurt kitty
  12/19/25
https://kommandostore.com/products/republic-of-south-africa-...
amethyst excitant senate prole
  12/26/25


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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM
Author: Cracking Pearl Ratface

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: Awkward area

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: Ebony faggotry

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: Sooty parlor stock car



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2)#49519458)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:35 AM
Author: Haunting brass deer antler

"There's a trip to the farmers market and time for toys and crayons, a bubble bath, and lots of love."

-- School Library Journal

"Will undoubtedly be scooped up by families seeking queer representation in board books."

-- Kirkus

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2)#49521596)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:42 AM
Author: Haunting brass deer antler

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: Passionate domesticated public bath

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: chestnut liquid oxygen feces

A few offhand:

-On the Shortness of Life - Seneca

-Starship Troopers (the book is much better and more serious than the movie)

-Bonfire of the Vanities

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2)#49519460)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:10 AM
Author: Haunting brass deer antler

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: marvelous incel orchestra pit

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: exciting sapphire pit



(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: cocky market

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: Cracking Pearl Ratface

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: cocky market

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: Cracking Pearl Ratface

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: cocky market

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: Impressive dilemma potus

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: Bateful red ticket booth half-breed

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: Impressive dilemma potus

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: Bateful red ticket booth half-breed



(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: marvelous incel orchestra pit

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: flushed field chad

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: Cracking Pearl Ratface

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: hideous hell

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: Cracking Pearl Ratface

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: Plum step-uncle's house preventive strike

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: Costumed jet digit ratio

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: Vibrant maroon nowag

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: Impressive dilemma potus

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: aquamarine yarmulke

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: Medicated sick gas station degenerate

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: Impertinent Obsidian Business Firm Love Of Her Life



(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: Medicated sick gas station degenerate

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: Impertinent Obsidian Business Firm Love Of Her Life



(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: smoky irradiated stag film

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: Bateful red ticket booth half-breed

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: Medicated sick gas station degenerate

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: Lime vivacious antidepressant drug

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: chestnut liquid oxygen feces

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: Lime vivacious antidepressant drug

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: chestnut liquid oxygen feces

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: Lime vivacious antidepressant drug

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: chestnut liquid oxygen feces

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: Bateful red ticket booth half-breed

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: deep nighttime resort elastic band

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: Impertinent Obsidian Business Firm Love Of Her Life



(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: black concupiscible office

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: Impertinent Obsidian Business Firm Love Of Her Life



(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: aggressive lilac keepsake machete space

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: Adulterous plaza

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: beta mother

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: Impertinent Obsidian Business Firm Love Of Her Life



(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: Cracking Pearl Ratface

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: Bateful red ticket booth half-breed

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: Medicated sick gas station degenerate



(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: flushed field chad

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: Medicated sick gas station degenerate

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: alcoholic crackhouse

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: flushed field chad



(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: smoky irradiated stag film

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: talented becky persian

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: umber startled hall



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2)#49520756)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:40 PM
Author: lascivious mad-dog skullcap lodge

Starship Troopers

Enders Game

Johnny Tremain

Childhoods End

Rama



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2)#49520778)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:16 AM
Author: Haunting brass deer antler

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: deep nighttime resort elastic band

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: mauve mischievous people who are hurt kitty

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: amethyst excitant senate prole

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