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any books you read or wish you had read in high school? look...
supple lodge
  12/18/25
I would have enjoyed sword and sorcery fantasy. Poul Anderso...
turquoise space striped hyena
  12/18/25
https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712? Reasonable price, ...
smoky ticket booth
  12/18/25
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Magical Haunted Graveyard
  12/18/25
"There's a trip to the farmers market and time for toys...
Bateful church building
  12/19/25
this is now forever in my search history I want you dead,...
Bateful church building
  12/19/25
mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel
coral library brethren
  12/18/25
A few offhand: -On the Shortness of Life - Seneca -Sta...
amber circlehead
  12/18/25
https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922329&mc=32&a...
Bateful church building
  12/19/25
or have the kid wake up xmas morning to an ACTUAL bonfire of...
blathering comical casino windowlicker
  12/19/25
...
floppy temple gunner
  12/18/25
Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters
deep stage ceo
  12/18/25
i think my side of the mountain was one of his summer readin...
supple lodge
  12/18/25
Where the Red Fern Grows, All Quiet on the Western Front, Ce...
deep stage ceo
  12/18/25
they did lord of the flies already. ill look up some of your...
supple lodge
  12/18/25
180
deep stage ceo
  12/18/25
The eyes and the impossible sourdough heart of samurai...
vigorous chapel
  12/18/25
rocket boys is 180
laughsome aggressive hall twinkling uncleanness
  12/18/25
Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo
vigorous chapel
  12/18/25
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laughsome aggressive hall twinkling uncleanness
  12/19/25
weird group called the "rocket boys" ran the party...
blathering comical casino windowlicker
  12/22/25
CR GOAT status books, but would one be "past" thos...
indecent locus
  12/18/25
he’s 12/7th grade so i said high school since that&rsq...
supple lodge
  12/18/25
The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano)
cyan idea he suggested
  12/18/25
ty for the recs, this is helpful i just asked him what bo...
supple lodge
  12/18/25
Waste of time unless he's secretly 30+ years old and has rea...
Red Antidepressant Drug
  12/18/25
seconding count of monte cristo three musketeers is also ...
Adulterous buck-toothed school cafeteria party of the first part
  12/18/25
JackTales 🤡😳
Spectacular lime box office
  12/18/25
those are for reading out loud , clown
vigorous chapel
  12/18/25
The Boy with Pink Hair by Perez Hilton https://www.amazon...
know-it-all wonderful kitty area
  12/18/25
Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz) We Were Soldiers Once… And...
at-the-ready range
  12/18/25
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Adventurous water buffalo sandwich
  12/18/25
I’m not even sure which author you’re talking ab...
at-the-ready range
  12/18/25
...
Adventurous water buffalo sandwich
  12/18/25
he doesn't like the term gay or homo and instead prefers &qu...
ruby charismatic hell organic girlfriend
  12/21/25
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000
laughsome aggressive hall twinkling uncleanness
  12/18/25
No young man of any worth can finish that and not have a bet...
at-the-ready range
  12/18/25
James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard...
brindle doobsian immigrant national
  12/18/25
The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call.
amber circlehead
  12/18/25
Once I got into the first one I burned through the rest (12 ...
brindle doobsian immigrant national
  12/18/25
Any chance you can recommend your top 5? I need some new boo...
amber circlehead
  12/18/25
1. Goldfinger 2. Moonraker 3. Casino Royale 4. From Russ...
brindle doobsian immigrant national
  12/19/25
tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I th...
amber circlehead
  12/21/25
cr
laughsome aggressive hall twinkling uncleanness
  12/18/25
Anabasis
fighting karate regret
  12/18/25
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Adventurous water buffalo sandwich
  12/18/25
Flowers for Algernon
aqua old irish cottage theater
  12/18/25
...
Adventurous water buffalo sandwich
  12/18/25
a song of ice and fire. I'm not a fantasy guy and I loved it...
Irate brunch boiling water
  12/18/25
Patrick O'Byrne's Master and Commander and related books in ...
Concupiscible Painfully Honest Location Mexican
  12/18/25
Hardy Boys (how old is your kid?) Zen and the Art of Motorc...
dashing cream toilet seat becky
  12/18/25
...
Adventurous water buffalo sandwich
  12/18/25
read that, among others, for my contemporary thought class i...
supple lodge
  12/18/25
zorba the greek
laughsome aggressive hall twinkling uncleanness
  12/18/25
...
at-the-ready range
  12/18/25
Several good recs already upthread. Some others: The Thin...
indecent locus
  12/18/25
Cr. list I feel like The Things They Carried got a bit ov...
at-the-ready range
  12/18/25
The Things They Carried is the most classic writer's favorit...
Chocolate corner
  12/18/25
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indecent locus
  12/18/25
agree with the first sentence and rec. need to exercise cau...
ruby charismatic hell organic girlfriend
  12/22/25
Watership Down A Day No Pigs Would Die 2nd Where the R...
Violent House
  12/18/25
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bearded feces step-uncle's house
  12/18/25
Starship Troopers Enders Game Johnny Tremain Childhoods E...
Glittery lay genital piercing
  12/18/25
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
Bateful church building
  12/19/25
Neon Bible better rec for younger kid
fighting karate regret
  12/19/25
abridged edgar allen poe short stories
Primrose irradiated faggot firefighter
  12/19/25
https://kommandostore.com/products/republic-of-south-africa-...
bistre senate corn cake
  12/26/25


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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM
Author: supple lodge

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: turquoise space striped hyena

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: smoky ticket booth

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: Magical Haunted Graveyard



(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: Bateful church building

"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: Bateful church building

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: coral library brethren

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: amber circlehead

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: Bateful church building

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: blathering comical casino windowlicker

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: floppy temple gunner



(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: deep stage ceo

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: supple lodge

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: deep stage ceo

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: supple lodge

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: deep stage ceo

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: vigorous chapel

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: laughsome aggressive hall twinkling uncleanness

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: vigorous chapel

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: laughsome aggressive hall twinkling uncleanness



(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: blathering comical casino windowlicker

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: indecent locus

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: supple lodge

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: cyan idea he suggested

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: supple lodge

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: Red Antidepressant Drug

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: Adulterous buck-toothed school cafeteria party of the first part

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: Spectacular lime box office

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: vigorous chapel

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: know-it-all wonderful kitty area

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: at-the-ready range

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: Adventurous water buffalo sandwich



(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: at-the-ready range

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: Adventurous water buffalo sandwich



(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: ruby charismatic hell organic girlfriend

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: laughsome aggressive hall twinkling uncleanness

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: at-the-ready range

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: brindle doobsian immigrant national

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: amber circlehead

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: brindle doobsian immigrant national

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: amber circlehead

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: brindle doobsian immigrant national

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: amber circlehead

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: laughsome aggressive hall twinkling uncleanness

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: fighting karate regret

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: Adventurous water buffalo sandwich



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:43 PM
Author: aqua old irish cottage theater

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: Adventurous water buffalo sandwich



(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: Irate brunch boiling water

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: Concupiscible Painfully Honest Location Mexican

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 cream toilet seat becky

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: Adventurous water buffalo sandwich



(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: supple lodge

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: laughsome aggressive hall twinkling uncleanness

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: at-the-ready range



(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: indecent locus

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: at-the-ready range

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: Chocolate corner

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: indecent locus



(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: ruby charismatic hell organic girlfriend

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: Violent House

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: bearded feces step-uncle's house



(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: Glittery lay genital piercing

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: Bateful church building

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: fighting karate regret

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: Primrose irradiated faggot firefighter

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: bistre senate corn cake

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)