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any books you read or wish you had read in high school? look...
purple bateful plaza messiness
  12/18/25
I would have enjoyed sword and sorcery fantasy. Poul Anderso...
maniacal bat shit crazy property associate
  12/18/25
https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712? Reasonable price, ...
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"There's a trip to the farmers market and time for toys...
nudist iridescent field goal in life
  12/19/25
this is now forever in my search history I want you dead,...
nudist iridescent field goal in life
  12/19/25
mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel
Cerebral gay gunner
  12/18/25
A few offhand: -On the Shortness of Life - Seneca -Sta...
spruce famous landscape painting death wish
  12/18/25
https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922329&mc=32&a...
nudist iridescent field goal in life
  12/19/25
or have the kid wake up xmas morning to an ACTUAL bonfire of...
Cruel-hearted depressive
  12/19/25
...
Bisexual trip degenerate
  12/18/25
Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters
tan bipolar community account
  12/18/25
i think my side of the mountain was one of his summer readin...
purple bateful plaza messiness
  12/18/25
Where the Red Fern Grows, All Quiet on the Western Front, Ce...
tan bipolar community account
  12/18/25
they did lord of the flies already. ill look up some of your...
purple bateful plaza messiness
  12/18/25
180
tan bipolar community account
  12/18/25
The eyes and the impossible sourdough heart of samurai...
wine laughsome coffee pot
  12/18/25
rocket boys is 180
provocative national
  12/18/25
Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo
wine laughsome coffee pot
  12/18/25
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provocative national
  12/19/25
weird group called the "rocket boys" ran the party...
Cruel-hearted depressive
  12/22/25
CR GOAT status books, but would one be "past" thos...
Fuchsia Center Wrinkle
  12/18/25
he’s 12/7th grade so i said high school since that&rsq...
purple bateful plaza messiness
  12/18/25
The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano)
Jet station
  12/18/25
ty for the recs, this is helpful i just asked him what bo...
purple bateful plaza messiness
  12/18/25
Waste of time unless he's secretly 30+ years old and has rea...
Very tactful chestnut halford
  12/18/25
seconding count of monte cristo three musketeers is also ...
Racy orange box office lettuce
  12/18/25
JackTales 🤡😳
Harsh theater stage
  12/18/25
those are for reading out loud , clown
wine laughsome coffee pot
  12/18/25
The Boy with Pink Hair by Perez Hilton https://www.amazon...
Marvelous library
  12/18/25
Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz) We Were Soldiers Once… And...
ruby aphrodisiac forum
  12/18/25
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kink-friendly self-absorbed meetinghouse
  12/18/25
I’m not even sure which author you’re talking ab...
ruby aphrodisiac forum
  12/18/25
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kink-friendly self-absorbed meetinghouse
  12/18/25
he doesn't like the term gay or homo and instead prefers &qu...
Slippery Soul-stirring Digit Ratio
  12/21/25
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000
provocative national
  12/18/25
No young man of any worth can finish that and not have a bet...
ruby aphrodisiac forum
  12/18/25
James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard...
Excitant Yellow Market Jewess
  12/18/25
The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call.
spruce famous landscape painting death wish
  12/18/25
Once I got into the first one I burned through the rest (12 ...
Excitant Yellow Market Jewess
  12/18/25
Any chance you can recommend your top 5? I need some new boo...
spruce famous landscape painting death wish
  12/18/25
1. Goldfinger 2. Moonraker 3. Casino Royale 4. From Russ...
Excitant Yellow Market Jewess
  12/19/25
tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I th...
spruce famous landscape painting death wish
  12/21/25
cr
provocative national
  12/18/25
Anabasis
Lime Nursing Home
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kink-friendly self-absorbed meetinghouse
  12/18/25
Flowers for Algernon
green house kitty cat
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kink-friendly self-absorbed meetinghouse
  12/18/25
a song of ice and fire. I'm not a fantasy guy and I loved it...
big hyperventilating headpube
  12/18/25
Patrick O'Byrne's Master and Commander and related books in ...
Smoky hyperactive candlestick maker whorehouse
  12/18/25
Hardy Boys (how old is your kid?) Zen and the Art of Motorc...
Low-t flesh indirect expression
  12/18/25
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kink-friendly self-absorbed meetinghouse
  12/18/25
read that, among others, for my contemporary thought class i...
purple bateful plaza messiness
  12/18/25
zorba the greek
provocative national
  12/18/25
...
ruby aphrodisiac forum
  12/18/25
Several good recs already upthread. Some others: The Thin...
Fuchsia Center Wrinkle
  12/18/25
Cr. list I feel like The Things They Carried got a bit ov...
ruby aphrodisiac forum
  12/18/25
The Things They Carried is the most classic writer's favorit...
Know-it-all laser beams faggotry
  12/18/25
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Fuchsia Center Wrinkle
  12/18/25
agree with the first sentence and rec. need to exercise cau...
Slippery Soul-stirring Digit Ratio
  12/22/25
Watership Down A Day No Pigs Would Die 2nd Where the R...
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Starship Troopers Enders Game Johnny Tremain Childhoods E...
Chartreuse Beta Step-uncle's House Really Tough Guy
  12/18/25
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
nudist iridescent field goal in life
  12/19/25
Neon Bible better rec for younger kid
Lime Nursing Home
  12/19/25
abridged edgar allen poe short stories
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM
Author: purple bateful plaza messiness

any books you read or wish you had read in high school? looking for something that would be motivating / tools for life genre

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:15 PM
Author: maniacal bat shit crazy property associate

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

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:19 PM
Author: crusty cruise ship french chef

https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712?

Reasonable price, free shipping.

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:21 PM
Author: Metal parlor legal warrant



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:35 AM
Author: nudist iridescent field goal in life

"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: nudist iridescent field goal in life

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: Cerebral gay gunner

mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: spruce famous landscape painting death wish

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: nudist iridescent field goal in life

https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922329&mc=32&forum_id=2#35633765

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Date: December 19th, 2025 9:32 AM
Author: Cruel-hearted depressive

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: Bisexual trip degenerate



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:27 PM
Author: tan bipolar community account

Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM
Author: purple bateful plaza messiness

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: tan bipolar community account

Where the Red Fern Grows, All Quiet on the Western Front, Celestine Prophecy, Lord of the Flies.

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:37 PM
Author: purple bateful plaza messiness

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: tan bipolar community account

180

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:01 PM
Author: wine laughsome coffee pot

The eyes and the impossible

sourdough

heart of samurai

artemis

rocket boys

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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:13 PM
Author: provocative national

rocket boys is 180

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Date: December 18th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: wine laughsome coffee pot

Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo

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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:34 AM
Author: provocative national



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: Cruel-hearted depressive

weird group called the "rocket boys" ran the party scene at my rural West Virginia high school

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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:54 PM
Author: Fuchsia Center Wrinkle

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: purple bateful plaza messiness

he’s 12/7th grade so i said high school since that’s more his reading level

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:28 PM
Author: Jet station

The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano)

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:29 PM
Author: purple bateful plaza messiness

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: Very tactful chestnut halford

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: Racy orange box office lettuce

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: Harsh theater stage

JackTales 🤡😳

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:02 PM
Author: wine laughsome coffee pot

those are for reading out loud , clown



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM
Author: Marvelous library

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: ruby aphrodisiac forum

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: kink-friendly self-absorbed meetinghouse



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:45 PM
Author: ruby aphrodisiac forum

I’m not even sure which author you’re talking about, though I’m 99.99% sure that it’s not Moore or Galloway

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:41 PM
Author: kink-friendly self-absorbed meetinghouse



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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:48 PM
Author: Slippery Soul-stirring Digit Ratio

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: provocative national

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000

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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:28 PM
Author: ruby aphrodisiac forum

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: Excitant Yellow Market Jewess

James Bond novels

Conan (only read the flemming and howard originals though)

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:39 PM
Author: spruce famous landscape painting death wish

The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call.

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:51 PM
Author: Excitant Yellow Market Jewess

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.

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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:50 PM
Author: spruce famous landscape painting death wish

Any chance you can recommend your top 5? I need some new books to read.

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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:06 AM
Author: Excitant Yellow Market Jewess

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: spruce famous landscape painting death wish

tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I think.

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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:46 PM
Author: provocative national

cr

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:42 PM
Author: Lime Nursing Home

Anabasis

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:48 PM
Author: kink-friendly self-absorbed meetinghouse



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:43 PM
Author: green house kitty cat

Flowers for Algernon

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:48 PM
Author: kink-friendly self-absorbed meetinghouse



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:55 PM
Author: big hyperventilating headpube

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.

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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:30 PM
Author: Smoky hyperactive candlestick maker whorehouse

Patrick O'Byrne's Master and Commander and related books in the series

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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:36 PM
Author: Low-t flesh indirect expression

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: kink-friendly self-absorbed meetinghouse



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: purple bateful plaza messiness

read that, among others, for my contemporary thought class in hs. book was so so but class was 180

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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:38 PM
Author: provocative national

zorba the greek



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:49 PM
Author: ruby aphrodisiac forum



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:53 PM
Author: Fuchsia Center Wrinkle

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: ruby aphrodisiac forum

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: Know-it-all laser beams faggotry

The Things They Carried is the most classic writer's favorite. You shouldn't look down on librarian recs. This is all they do

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Date: December 18th, 2025 10:12 PM
Author: Fuchsia Center Wrinkle



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 11:44 AM
Author: Slippery Soul-stirring Digit Ratio

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

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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:09 PM
Author: violent marketing idea

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: Beady-eyed address stain



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:40 PM
Author: Chartreuse Beta Step-uncle's House Really Tough Guy

Starship Troopers

Enders Game

Johnny Tremain

Childhoods End

Rama



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:16 AM
Author: nudist iridescent field goal in life

A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES

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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:11 AM
Author: Lime Nursing Home

Neon Bible better rec for younger kid

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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:23 AM
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abridged edgar allen poe short stories

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