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any books you read or wish you had read in high school? look...
Pink Orchestra Pit
  12/18/25
I would have enjoyed sword and sorcery fantasy. Poul Anderso...
Supple lettuce
  12/18/25
https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712? Reasonable price, ...
ruby newt heaven
  12/18/25
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Floppy forum
  12/18/25
"There's a trip to the farmers market and time for toys...
titillating buck-toothed lodge
  12/19/25
this is now forever in my search history I want you dead,...
titillating buck-toothed lodge
  12/19/25
mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel
Heady base mexican
  12/18/25
A few offhand: -On the Shortness of Life - Seneca -Sta...
Fuchsia pistol
  12/18/25
https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922329&mc=32&a...
titillating buck-toothed lodge
  12/19/25
or have the kid wake up xmas morning to an ACTUAL bonfire of...
self-absorbed charismatic milk
  12/19/25
...
Yapping tanning salon
  12/18/25
Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters
Lemon hairraiser hall main people
  12/18/25
i think my side of the mountain was one of his summer readin...
Pink Orchestra Pit
  12/18/25
Where the Red Fern Grows, All Quiet on the Western Front, Ce...
Lemon hairraiser hall main people
  12/18/25
they did lord of the flies already. ill look up some of your...
Pink Orchestra Pit
  12/18/25
180
Lemon hairraiser hall main people
  12/18/25
The eyes and the impossible sourdough heart of samurai...
Boyish Corner
  12/18/25
rocket boys is 180
Flesh son of senegal
  12/18/25
Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo
Boyish Corner
  12/18/25
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Flesh son of senegal
  12/19/25
weird group called the "rocket boys" ran the party...
self-absorbed charismatic milk
  12/22/25
CR GOAT status books, but would one be "past" thos...
arousing charcoal scourge upon the earth theater stage
  12/18/25
he’s 12/7th grade so i said high school since that&rsq...
Pink Orchestra Pit
  12/18/25
The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano)
Learning Disabled Harsh Cruise Ship Knife
  12/18/25
ty for the recs, this is helpful i just asked him what bo...
Pink Orchestra Pit
  12/18/25
Waste of time unless he's secretly 30+ years old and has rea...
concupiscible location ratface
  12/18/25
seconding count of monte cristo three musketeers is also ...
big stage
  12/18/25
JackTales 🤡😳
fragrant abode
  12/18/25
those are for reading out loud , clown
Boyish Corner
  12/18/25
The Boy with Pink Hair by Perez Hilton https://www.amazon...
chrome cracking chapel
  12/18/25
Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz) We Were Soldiers Once… And...
Aphrodisiac cuckold messiness
  12/18/25
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sadistic sepia juggernaut
  12/18/25
I’m not even sure which author you’re talking ab...
Aphrodisiac cuckold messiness
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sadistic sepia juggernaut
  12/18/25
he doesn't like the term gay or homo and instead prefers &qu...
cerebral bespoke bawdyhouse prole
  12/21/25
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000
Flesh son of senegal
  12/18/25
No young man of any worth can finish that and not have a bet...
Aphrodisiac cuckold messiness
  12/18/25
James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard...
insanely creepy pervert
  12/18/25
The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call.
Fuchsia pistol
  12/18/25
Once I got into the first one I burned through the rest (12 ...
insanely creepy pervert
  12/18/25
Any chance you can recommend your top 5? I need some new boo...
Fuchsia pistol
  12/18/25
1. Goldfinger 2. Moonraker 3. Casino Royale 4. From Russ...
insanely creepy pervert
  12/19/25
tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I th...
Fuchsia pistol
  12/21/25
cr
Flesh son of senegal
  12/18/25
Anabasis
Slate senate mental disorder
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sadistic sepia juggernaut
  12/18/25
Flowers for Algernon
Magenta range weed whacker
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sadistic sepia juggernaut
  12/18/25
a song of ice and fire. I'm not a fantasy guy and I loved it...
razzmatazz drunken ape indian lodge
  12/18/25
Patrick O'Byrne's Master and Commander and related books in ...
Mauve pit wagecucks
  12/18/25
Hardy Boys (how old is your kid?) Zen and the Art of Motorc...
salmon adventurous school cafeteria
  12/18/25
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sadistic sepia juggernaut
  12/18/25
read that, among others, for my contemporary thought class i...
Pink Orchestra Pit
  12/18/25
zorba the greek
Flesh son of senegal
  12/18/25
...
Aphrodisiac cuckold messiness
  12/18/25
Several good recs already upthread. Some others: The Thin...
arousing charcoal scourge upon the earth theater stage
  12/18/25
Cr. list I feel like The Things They Carried got a bit ov...
Aphrodisiac cuckold messiness
  12/18/25
The Things They Carried is the most classic writer's favorit...
Brindle Theater
  12/18/25
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arousing charcoal scourge upon the earth theater stage
  12/18/25
agree with the first sentence and rec. need to exercise cau...
cerebral bespoke bawdyhouse prole
  12/22/25
Watership Down A Day No Pigs Would Die 2nd Where the R...
Unhinged 180 Locus
  12/18/25
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Light Stubborn Therapy
  12/18/25
Starship Troopers Enders Game Johnny Tremain Childhoods E...
exciting sapphire macaca mood
  12/18/25
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
titillating buck-toothed lodge
  12/19/25
Neon Bible better rec for younger kid
Slate senate mental disorder
  12/19/25
abridged edgar allen poe short stories
bossy aromatic menage
  12/19/25
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Bronze vibrant philosopher-king area
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM
Author: Pink Orchestra Pit

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: Supple lettuce

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: ruby newt heaven

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

Reasonable price, free shipping.

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:21 PM
Author: Floppy forum



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:35 AM
Author: titillating buck-toothed lodge

"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: titillating buck-toothed lodge

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: Heady base mexican

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

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Fuchsia pistol

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: titillating buck-toothed lodge

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: self-absorbed charismatic milk

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: Yapping tanning salon



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:27 PM
Author: Lemon hairraiser hall main people

Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM
Author: Pink Orchestra 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: Lemon hairraiser hall main people

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: Pink Orchestra 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: Lemon hairraiser hall main people

180

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:01 PM
Author: Boyish Corner

The eyes and the impossible

sourdough

heart of samurai

artemis

rocket boys

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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:13 PM
Author: Flesh son of senegal

rocket boys is 180

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Date: December 18th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Boyish Corner

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

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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:34 AM
Author: Flesh son of senegal



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: self-absorbed charismatic milk

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: arousing charcoal scourge upon the earth theater stage

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: Pink Orchestra Pit

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: Learning Disabled Harsh Cruise Ship Knife

The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano)

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:29 PM
Author: Pink Orchestra 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: concupiscible location ratface

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: big stage

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: fragrant abode

JackTales 🤡😳

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:02 PM
Author: Boyish Corner

those are for reading out loud , clown



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM
Author: chrome cracking chapel

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: Aphrodisiac cuckold messiness

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: sadistic sepia juggernaut



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:45 PM
Author: Aphrodisiac cuckold messiness

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: sadistic sepia juggernaut



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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:48 PM
Author: cerebral bespoke bawdyhouse prole

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: Flesh son of senegal

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000

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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:28 PM
Author: Aphrodisiac cuckold messiness

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: insanely creepy pervert

James Bond novels

Conan (only read the flemming and howard originals though)

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:39 PM
Author: Fuchsia pistol

The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call.

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:51 PM
Author: insanely creepy pervert

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: Fuchsia pistol

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: insanely creepy pervert

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: Fuchsia pistol

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

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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:46 PM
Author: Flesh son of senegal

cr

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:42 PM
Author: Slate senate mental disorder

Anabasis

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:48 PM
Author: sadistic sepia juggernaut



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:43 PM
Author: Magenta range weed whacker

Flowers for Algernon

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:48 PM
Author: sadistic sepia juggernaut



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:55 PM
Author: razzmatazz drunken ape indian lodge

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: Mauve pit wagecucks

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: salmon adventurous school cafeteria

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: sadistic sepia juggernaut



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: Pink Orchestra Pit

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: Flesh son of senegal

zorba the greek



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:49 PM
Author: Aphrodisiac cuckold messiness



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:53 PM
Author: arousing charcoal scourge upon the earth theater stage

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: Aphrodisiac cuckold messiness

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: Brindle Theater

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: arousing charcoal scourge upon the earth theater stage



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 11:44 AM
Author: cerebral bespoke bawdyhouse prole

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: Unhinged 180 Locus

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: Light Stubborn Therapy



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:40 PM
Author: exciting sapphire macaca mood

Starship Troopers

Enders Game

Johnny Tremain

Childhoods End

Rama



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:16 AM
Author: titillating buck-toothed lodge

A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES

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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:11 AM
Author: Slate senate mental disorder

Neon Bible better rec for younger kid

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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:23 AM
Author: bossy aromatic menage

abridged edgar allen poe short stories

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Date: December 26th, 2025 12:37 AM
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