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Book rec for boys ?

any books you read or wish you had read in high school? look...
Marvelous Haunted Graveyard Pervert
  12/18/25
I would have enjoyed sword and sorcery fantasy. Poul Anderso...
abusive jet-lagged famous landscape painting
  12/18/25
https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712? Reasonable price, ...
Aromatic Parlor
  12/18/25
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Coiffed Fighting Property
  12/18/25
"There's a trip to the farmers market and time for toys...
talented shrine reading party
  12/19/25
this is now forever in my search history I want you dead,...
talented shrine reading party
  12/19/25
mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel
Frisky sanctuary scourge upon the earth
  12/18/25
A few offhand: -On the Shortness of Life - Seneca -Sta...
drab corner
  12/18/25
https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922329&mc=32&a...
talented shrine reading party
  12/19/25
or have the kid wake up xmas morning to an ACTUAL bonfire of...
obsidian pit
  12/19/25
...
wine rehab
  12/18/25
Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters
Translucent Prole Half-breed
  12/18/25
i think my side of the mountain was one of his summer readin...
Marvelous Haunted Graveyard Pervert
  12/18/25
Where the Red Fern Grows, All Quiet on the Western Front, Ce...
Translucent Prole Half-breed
  12/18/25
they did lord of the flies already. ill look up some of your...
Marvelous Haunted Graveyard Pervert
  12/18/25
180
Translucent Prole Half-breed
  12/18/25
The eyes and the impossible sourdough heart of samurai...
Confused Site Crotch
  12/18/25
rocket boys is 180
Duck-like university multi-billionaire
  12/18/25
Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo
Confused Site Crotch
  12/18/25
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Duck-like university multi-billionaire
  12/19/25
weird group called the "rocket boys" ran the party...
obsidian pit
  12/22/25
CR GOAT status books, but would one be "past" thos...
appetizing place of business
  12/18/25
he’s 12/7th grade so i said high school since that&rsq...
Marvelous Haunted Graveyard Pervert
  12/18/25
The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano)
razzmatazz dopamine public bath
  12/18/25
ty for the recs, this is helpful i just asked him what bo...
Marvelous Haunted Graveyard Pervert
  12/18/25
Waste of time unless he's secretly 30+ years old and has rea...
dead bat-shit-crazy space old irish cottage
  12/18/25
seconding count of monte cristo three musketeers is also ...
Bright sadistic circlehead
  12/18/25
JackTales 🤡😳
French tattoo hospital
  12/18/25
those are for reading out loud , clown
Confused Site Crotch
  12/18/25
The Boy with Pink Hair by Perez Hilton https://www.amazon...
grizzly slippery international law enforcement agency
  12/18/25
Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz) We Were Soldiers Once… And...
territorial cuckoldry filthpig
  12/18/25
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vivacious sticky really tough guy brunch
  12/18/25
I’m not even sure which author you’re talking ab...
territorial cuckoldry filthpig
  12/18/25
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vivacious sticky really tough guy brunch
  12/18/25
he doesn't like the term gay or homo and instead prefers &qu...
blue swashbuckling community account locus
  12/21/25
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000
Duck-like university multi-billionaire
  12/18/25
No young man of any worth can finish that and not have a bet...
territorial cuckoldry filthpig
  12/18/25
James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard...
adventurous twinkling queen of the night locale
  12/18/25
The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call.
drab corner
  12/18/25
Once I got into the first one I burned through the rest (12 ...
adventurous twinkling queen of the night locale
  12/18/25
Any chance you can recommend your top 5? I need some new boo...
drab corner
  12/18/25
1. Goldfinger 2. Moonraker 3. Casino Royale 4. From Russ...
adventurous twinkling queen of the night locale
  12/19/25
tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I th...
drab corner
  12/21/25
cr
Duck-like university multi-billionaire
  12/18/25
Anabasis
offensive adulterous school cafeteria digit ratio
  12/18/25
...
vivacious sticky really tough guy brunch
  12/18/25
Flowers for Algernon
aquamarine exhilarant dragon
  12/18/25
...
vivacious sticky really tough guy brunch
  12/18/25
a song of ice and fire. I'm not a fantasy guy and I loved it...
Cracking Giraffe
  12/18/25
Patrick O'Byrne's Master and Commander and related books in ...
harsh foreskin nursing home
  12/18/25
Hardy Boys (how old is your kid?) Zen and the Art of Motorc...
zombie-like spruce hell
  12/18/25
...
vivacious sticky really tough guy brunch
  12/18/25
read that, among others, for my contemporary thought class i...
Marvelous Haunted Graveyard Pervert
  12/18/25
zorba the greek
Duck-like university multi-billionaire
  12/18/25
...
territorial cuckoldry filthpig
  12/18/25
Several good recs already upthread. Some others: The Thin...
appetizing place of business
  12/18/25
Cr. list I feel like The Things They Carried got a bit ov...
territorial cuckoldry filthpig
  12/18/25
The Things They Carried is the most classic writer's favorit...
Cocky magenta karate
  12/18/25
...
appetizing place of business
  12/18/25
agree with the first sentence and rec. need to exercise cau...
blue swashbuckling community account locus
  12/22/25
Watership Down A Day No Pigs Would Die 2nd Where the R...
cream blood rage
  12/18/25
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House-broken Area Roast Beef
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Starship Troopers Enders Game Johnny Tremain Childhoods E...
titillating tanning salon
  12/18/25
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
talented shrine reading party
  12/19/25
Neon Bible better rec for younger kid
offensive adulterous school cafeteria digit ratio
  12/19/25
abridged edgar allen poe short stories
Passionate library gaming laptop
  12/19/25
https://kommandostore.com/products/republic-of-south-africa-...
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  12/26/25


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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM
Author: Marvelous Haunted Graveyard Pervert

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)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:15 PM
Author: abusive jet-lagged famous landscape painting

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: Aromatic Parlor

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

Reasonable price, free shipping.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519452)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:21 PM
Author: Coiffed Fighting Property



(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: talented shrine reading party

"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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49521596)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:42 AM
Author: talented shrine reading party

this is now forever in my search history

I want you dead, Malk Poo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49521719)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:21 PM
Author: Frisky sanctuary scourge upon the earth

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: drab corner

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519460)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:10 AM
Author: talented shrine reading party

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: obsidian pit

or have the kid wake up xmas morning to an ACTUAL bonfire of his vanities

toughens him up a bit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49522050)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: wine rehab



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519465)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:27 PM
Author: Translucent Prole Half-breed

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: Marvelous Haunted Graveyard Pervert

i think my side of the mountain was one of his summer reading assignments



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519493)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:34 PM
Author: Translucent Prole Half-breed

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: Marvelous Haunted Graveyard Pervert

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519523)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:45 PM
Author: Translucent Prole Half-breed

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: Confused Site Crotch

The eyes and the impossible

sourdough

heart of samurai

artemis

rocket boys

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519953)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:13 PM
Author: Duck-like university multi-billionaire

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: Confused Site Crotch

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: Duck-like university multi-billionaire



(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: obsidian pit

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: appetizing place of business

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519755)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:00 PM
Author: Marvelous Haunted Graveyard Pervert

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: razzmatazz dopamine public bath

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: Marvelous Haunted Graveyard Pervert

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519489)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:24 PM
Author: dead bat-shit-crazy space old irish cottage

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519679)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:29 PM
Author: Bright sadistic circlehead

seconding count of monte cristo

three musketeers is also great and vastly superior to any adaptation

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519686)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:29 PM
Author: French tattoo hospital

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: Confused Site Crotch

those are for reading out loud , clown



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519956)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM
Author: grizzly slippery international law enforcement agency

The Boy with Pink Hair by Perez Hilton

https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Pink-Hair-Perez-Hilton/dp/0451234200

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519492)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:32 PM
Author: territorial cuckoldry filthpig

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: vivacious sticky really tough guy brunch



(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: territorial cuckoldry filthpig

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: vivacious sticky really tough guy brunch



(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: blue swashbuckling community account locus

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49528627)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:46 PM
Author: Duck-like university multi-billionaire

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: territorial cuckoldry filthpig

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49520739)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:33 PM
Author: adventurous twinkling queen of the night locale

James Bond novels

Conan (only read the flemming and howard originals though)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519505)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:39 PM
Author: drab corner

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: adventurous twinkling queen of the night locale

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: drab corner

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: adventurous twinkling queen of the night locale

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49522101)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:44 PM
Author: drab corner

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: Duck-like university multi-billionaire

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: offensive adulterous school cafeteria digit ratio

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: vivacious sticky really tough guy brunch



(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: aquamarine exhilarant dragon

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: vivacious sticky really tough guy brunch



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519568)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:55 PM
Author: Cracking Giraffe

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: harsh foreskin nursing home

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: zombie-like spruce hell

Hardy Boys (how old is your kid?)

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Dune

anything recent by Lawrence Millman

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519705)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:37 PM
Author: vivacious sticky really tough guy brunch



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519706)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: Marvelous Haunted Graveyard Pervert

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: Duck-like university multi-billionaire

zorba the greek



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519710)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:49 PM
Author: territorial cuckoldry filthpig



(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: appetizing place of business

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519751)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:30 PM
Author: territorial cuckoldry filthpig

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49520745)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:55 PM
Author: Cocky magenta karate

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: appetizing place of business



(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: blue swashbuckling community account locus

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: cream blood rage

Watership Down

A Day No Pigs Would Die

2nd Where the Red Fern Grows

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49520246)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:33 PM
Author: House-broken Area Roast Beef



(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: titillating tanning salon

Starship Troopers

Enders Game

Johnny Tremain

Childhoods End

Rama



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49520778)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:16 AM
Author: talented shrine reading party

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: offensive adulterous school cafeteria digit ratio

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: Passionate library gaming laptop

abridged edgar allen poe short stories

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