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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM Author: bistre cheese-eating state 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: self-centered international law enforcement agency 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: Fishy background story turdskin https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712?
Reasonable price, free shipping. |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:21 PM Author: coral pocket flask (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: pungent base "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: pungent base 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: appetizing alpha bawdyhouse 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: orange slimy sandwich friendly grandma 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: pungent base 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: Hairless University Faggot Firefighter 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: Citrine Hissy Fit Hospital 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: Maroon Chapel Double Fault 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: bistre cheese-eating state 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: Maroon Chapel Double Fault 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: bistre cheese-eating state 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: Maroon Chapel Double Fault 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: cerise church building idea he suggested The eyes and the impossible
sourdough
heart of samurai
artemis
rocket boys |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:13 PM Author: maniacal center 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: cerise church building idea he suggested 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: maniacal center (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: Hairless University Faggot Firefighter 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: Chrome vibrant headpube 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: bistre cheese-eating state 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: Sable set 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: bistre cheese-eating state 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: Apoplectic yellow gas station gunner 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: Smoky orchestra pit 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: pink prole hall 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: cerise church building idea he suggested those are for reading out loud , clown
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM Author: Supple shimmering national old irish cottage 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: sapphire idiotic regret 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: Puce range becky 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: sapphire idiotic regret 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: Puce range becky 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: flesh hideous gaping 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: maniacal center 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: sapphire idiotic regret 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: beta scourge upon the earth native James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard originals though) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:39 PM Author: orange slimy sandwich friendly grandma 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: beta scourge upon the earth native 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: orange slimy sandwich friendly grandma 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: beta scourge upon the earth native 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: orange slimy sandwich friendly grandma 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: maniacal center 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: cruel-hearted adventurous stock car 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: Puce range becky (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: Self-absorbed parlour 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: Puce range becky 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: mewling library factory reset button 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: Hyperventilating Box Office Persian 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: dashing scarlet dingle berry doctorate 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: Puce range becky > Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
lol |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:01 PM Author: bistre cheese-eating state 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: maniacal center zorba the greek
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:49 PM Author: sapphire idiotic regret (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: Chrome vibrant headpube 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: sapphire idiotic regret 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: burgundy temple 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: Chrome vibrant headpube (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: flesh hideous gaping 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: copper titillating station 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: lemon mad-dog skullcap (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: Chocolate Stead Brethren Starship Troopers Enders Game Johnny Tremain Childhoods End Rama
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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:16 AM Author: pungent base 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: cruel-hearted adventurous stock car 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: aquamarine home electric furnace 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: Indecent hateful theater stage mother 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) |