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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM Author: ocher spot kitty cat 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\u0026mark_id=5310074#49519424) |
Date: December 18th, 2025 1:15 PM Author: dashing chapel 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\u0026mark_id=5310074#49519444) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:19 PM Author: Jet outnumbered giraffe https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712?
Reasonable price, free shipping. |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:21 PM Author: red rehab (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#49519458) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:35 AM Author: nighttime blathering business firm dopamine "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: nighttime blathering business firm dopamine 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: Hateful Rigor mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#49519459) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:22 PM Author: sadistic cowardly garrison legend 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: nighttime blathering business firm dopamine 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\u0026mark_id=5310074#49521571) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 9:32 AM Author: Stirring narrow-minded sanctuary newt 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: massive bonkers useless brakes 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: fuchsia aphrodisiac hell Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#49519476) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM Author: ocher spot kitty cat 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: fuchsia aphrodisiac hell 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\u0026mark_id=5310074#49519513) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:37 PM Author: ocher spot kitty cat 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: fuchsia aphrodisiac hell 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#49519559) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:01 PM Author: chestnut stage immigrant The eyes and the impossible
sourdough
heart of samurai
artemis
rocket boys |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:13 PM Author: vivacious boiling water stage rocket boys is 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#49520282) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 10:18 PM Author: chestnut stage immigrant Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#49521280) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:34 AM Author: vivacious boiling water stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#49521595) |
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Date: December 22nd, 2025 10:54 AM Author: Stirring narrow-minded sanctuary newt 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\u0026mark_id=5310074#49530601) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:54 PM Author: slate disrespectful lodge 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: ocher spot kitty cat 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\u0026mark_id=5310074#49519767) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:28 PM Author: arrogant base private investor The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#49519483) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:29 PM Author: ocher spot kitty cat 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: talking aromatic whorehouse 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: contagious mad-dog skullcap 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: flirting temple degenerate JackTales 🤡😳 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#49519490) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:02 PM Author: chestnut stage immigrant those are for reading out loud , clown
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM Author: Beady-eyed insecure main people set 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: Slippery Arousing Parlor Toaster 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: Painfully honest dun incel are you seriously recommending a book on manhood written by a homo? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#49519701) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:45 PM Author: Slippery Arousing Parlor Toaster 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\u0026mark_id=5310074#49519724) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:41 PM Author: Painfully honest dun incel lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#49519873) |
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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:48 PM Author: carnelian stain sound barrier 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: vivacious boiling water stage Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#49519898) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:28 PM Author: Slippery Arousing Parlor Toaster 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: soul-stirring keepsake machete James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard originals though) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:39 PM Author: sadistic cowardly garrison legend The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#49519535) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:51 PM Author: soul-stirring keepsake machete 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\u0026mark_id=5310074#49519587) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:50 PM Author: sadistic cowardly garrison legend 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\u0026mark_id=5310074#49519744) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:06 AM Author: soul-stirring keepsake machete 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: sadistic cowardly garrison legend tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I think. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#49528612) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:46 PM Author: vivacious boiling water stage cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#49519729) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:42 PM Author: swashbuckling school cafeteria psychic Anabasis (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#49519542) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:48 PM Author: Painfully honest dun incel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#49519572) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:43 PM Author: grizzly razzle-dazzle tattoo Flowers for Algernon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#49519548) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:48 PM Author: Painfully honest dun incel 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: curious pink 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\u0026mark_id=5310074#49519602) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:30 PM Author: violet self-absorbed trump supporter 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\u0026mark_id=5310074#49519689) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:36 PM Author: soggy legal warrant pervert 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: Painfully honest dun incel > Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
lol |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:01 PM Author: ocher spot kitty cat 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\u0026mark_id=5310074#49519770) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:38 PM Author: vivacious boiling water stage zorba the greek
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:49 PM Author: Slippery Arousing Parlor Toaster (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#49519736) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:53 PM Author: slate disrespectful lodge 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: Slippery Arousing Parlor Toaster 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: Magenta generalized bond 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\u0026mark_id=5310074#49520815) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 10:12 PM Author: slate disrespectful lodge (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#49521254) |
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Date: December 22nd, 2025 11:44 AM Author: carnelian stain sound barrier 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\u0026mark_id=5310074#49530736) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:09 PM Author: Wine Corner 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: Razzmatazz Bossy Heaven (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#49520756) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:40 PM Author: Ivory apoplectic location Starship Troopers Enders Game Johnny Tremain Childhoods End Rama
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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:16 AM Author: nighttime blathering business firm dopamine A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#49521578) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:11 AM Author: swashbuckling school cafeteria psychic Neon Bible better rec for younger kid (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#49521698) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:23 AM Author: zombie-like chest-beating idiot abridged edgar allen poe short stories (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310074#49521706) |
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Date: December 26th, 2025 12:37 AM Author: Marvelous affirmative action 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\u0026mark_id=5310074#49540099) |