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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM Author: spruce self-centered pit 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/en-en/#49519424) |
Date: December 18th, 2025 1:15 PM Author: citrine concupiscible gay wizard 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/en-en/#49519444) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:19 PM Author: at-the-ready erotic halford https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712?
Reasonable price, free shipping. |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:21 PM Author: free-loading native (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2/en-en/#49519458) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:35 AM Author: Zippy location dragon "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: Zippy location dragon 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: stimulating garnet sandwich mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2/en-en/#49519459) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:22 PM Author: Cracking Alcoholic Market Cumskin 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: Zippy location dragon 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/en-en/#49521571) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 9:32 AM Author: Black low-t dilemma immigrant 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: Multi-colored honey-headed orchestra pit mental disorder (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2/en-en/#49519465) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:27 PM Author: Frozen saffron psychic patrolman Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2/en-en/#49519476) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM Author: spruce self-centered pit 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: Frozen saffron psychic patrolman 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/en-en/#49519513) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:37 PM Author: spruce self-centered pit 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: Frozen saffron psychic patrolman 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2/en-en/#49519559) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:01 PM Author: dark disgusting pisswyrm The eyes and the impossible
sourdough
heart of samurai
artemis
rocket boys |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:13 PM Author: bat-shit-crazy university place of business rocket boys is 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2/en-en/#49520282) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 10:18 PM Author: dark disgusting pisswyrm Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2/en-en/#49521280) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:34 AM Author: bat-shit-crazy university place of business (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2/en-en/#49521595) |
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Date: December 22nd, 2025 10:54 AM Author: Black low-t dilemma immigrant 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/en-en/#49530601) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:54 PM Author: Heady Roommate 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: spruce self-centered pit 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/en-en/#49519767) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:28 PM Author: medicated soul-stirring indian lodge fanboi The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2/en-en/#49519483) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:29 PM Author: spruce self-centered pit 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: Spectacular coldplay fan brethren 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: judgmental point newt 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: Slate partner JackTales 🤡😳 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2/en-en/#49519490) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:02 PM Author: dark disgusting pisswyrm those are for reading out loud , clown
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM Author: big bbw 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: Arousing Boltzmann Crackhouse 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: Primrose Twinkling Uncleanness (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2/en-en/#49519701) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:45 PM Author: Arousing Boltzmann Crackhouse 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/en-en/#49519724) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:41 PM Author: Primrose Twinkling Uncleanness (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2/en-en/#49519873) |
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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:48 PM Author: irradiated church building 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: bat-shit-crazy university place of business Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2/en-en/#49519898) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:28 PM Author: Arousing Boltzmann Crackhouse 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: ivory histrionic trailer park James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard originals though) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:39 PM Author: Cracking Alcoholic Market Cumskin The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2/en-en/#49519535) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:51 PM Author: ivory histrionic trailer park 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/en-en/#49519587) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:50 PM Author: Cracking Alcoholic Market Cumskin 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/en-en/#49519744) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:06 AM Author: ivory histrionic trailer park 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: Cracking Alcoholic Market Cumskin tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I think. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2/en-en/#49528612) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:46 PM Author: bat-shit-crazy university place of business cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2/en-en/#49519729) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:42 PM Author: boyish candlestick maker gaming laptop Anabasis (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2/en-en/#49519542) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:48 PM Author: Primrose Twinkling Uncleanness (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2/en-en/#49519572) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:43 PM Author: Orange public bath Flowers for Algernon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2/en-en/#49519548) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:48 PM Author: Primrose Twinkling Uncleanness (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2/en-en/#49519568) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:55 PM Author: razzle stag film dingle berry 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/en-en/#49519602) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:30 PM Author: odious brunch coffee pot 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/en-en/#49519689) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:36 PM Author: Floppy Mewling Meetinghouse Liquid Oxygen 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: Primrose Twinkling Uncleanness (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2/en-en/#49519706) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:01 PM Author: spruce self-centered pit 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/en-en/#49519770) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:38 PM Author: bat-shit-crazy university place of business zorba the greek
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:49 PM Author: Arousing Boltzmann Crackhouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2/en-en/#49519736) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:53 PM Author: Heady Roommate 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: Arousing Boltzmann Crackhouse 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: exciting white theatre clown 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/en-en/#49520815) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 10:12 PM Author: Heady Roommate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2/en-en/#49521254) |
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Date: December 22nd, 2025 11:44 AM Author: irradiated church building 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/en-en/#49530736) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:09 PM Author: Vigorous gaped pocket flask school 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: pink fortuitous meteor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2/en-en/#49520756) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:40 PM Author: Diverse greedy headpube Starship Troopers Enders Game Johnny Tremain Childhoods End Rama
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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:16 AM Author: Zippy location dragon A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2/en-en/#49521578) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:11 AM Author: boyish candlestick maker gaming laptop Neon Bible better rec for younger kid (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2/en-en/#49521698) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:23 AM Author: Pungent Lascivious Chapel Mood abridged edgar allen poe short stories (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2/en-en/#49521706) |
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Date: December 26th, 2025 12:37 AM Author: elite slimy kitchen 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/en-en/#49540099) |