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Book rec for boys ?

any books you read or wish you had read in high school? look...
cowardly translucent range mad cow disease
  12/18/25
I would have enjoyed sword and sorcery fantasy. Poul Anderso...
Olive Lodge
  12/18/25
https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712? Reasonable price, ...
startling gas station lettuce
  12/18/25
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sickened tank address
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"There's a trip to the farmers market and time for toys...
Supple factory reset button native
  12/19/25
this is now forever in my search history I want you dead,...
Supple factory reset button native
  12/19/25
mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel
Domesticated Stag Film
  12/18/25
A few offhand: -On the Shortness of Life - Seneca -Sta...
Bateful chestnut organic girlfriend area
  12/18/25
https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922329&mc=32&a...
Supple factory reset button native
  12/19/25
or have the kid wake up xmas morning to an ACTUAL bonfire of...
swashbuckling den psychic
  12/19/25
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irradiated hall
  12/18/25
Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters
black crusty cumskin
  12/18/25
i think my side of the mountain was one of his summer readin...
cowardly translucent range mad cow disease
  12/18/25
Where the Red Fern Grows, All Quiet on the Western Front, Ce...
black crusty cumskin
  12/18/25
they did lord of the flies already. ill look up some of your...
cowardly translucent range mad cow disease
  12/18/25
180
black crusty cumskin
  12/18/25
The eyes and the impossible sourdough heart of samurai...
Hateful rigpig
  12/18/25
rocket boys is 180
Dashing Emerald Locale Halford
  12/18/25
Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo
Hateful rigpig
  12/18/25
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Dashing Emerald Locale Halford
  12/19/25
weird group called the "rocket boys" ran the party...
swashbuckling den psychic
  12/22/25
CR GOAT status books, but would one be "past" thos...
rough-skinned useless brakes
  12/18/25
he’s 12/7th grade so i said high school since that&rsq...
cowardly translucent range mad cow disease
  12/18/25
The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano)
indecent state dragon
  12/18/25
ty for the recs, this is helpful i just asked him what bo...
cowardly translucent range mad cow disease
  12/18/25
Waste of time unless he's secretly 30+ years old and has rea...
onyx police squad temple
  12/18/25
seconding count of monte cristo three musketeers is also ...
Cerebral alcoholic plaza
  12/18/25
JackTales 🤡😳
Vivacious aggressive theater queen of the night
  12/18/25
those are for reading out loud , clown
Hateful rigpig
  12/18/25
The Boy with Pink Hair by Perez Hilton https://www.amazon...
spruce charismatic weed whacker hairy legs
  12/18/25
Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz) We Were Soldiers Once… And...
godawful lemon goal in life lay
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Exciting corn cake
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I’m not even sure which author you’re talking ab...
godawful lemon goal in life lay
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Exciting corn cake
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he doesn't like the term gay or homo and instead prefers &qu...
sticky karate scourge upon the earth
  12/21/25
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000
Dashing Emerald Locale Halford
  12/18/25
No young man of any worth can finish that and not have a bet...
godawful lemon goal in life lay
  12/18/25
James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard...
Walnut abnormal senate french chef
  12/18/25
The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call.
Bateful chestnut organic girlfriend area
  12/18/25
Once I got into the first one I burned through the rest (12 ...
Walnut abnormal senate french chef
  12/18/25
Any chance you can recommend your top 5? I need some new boo...
Bateful chestnut organic girlfriend area
  12/18/25
1. Goldfinger 2. Moonraker 3. Casino Royale 4. From Russ...
Walnut abnormal senate french chef
  12/19/25
tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I th...
Bateful chestnut organic girlfriend area
  12/21/25
cr
Dashing Emerald Locale Halford
  12/18/25
Anabasis
vermilion national security agency knife
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Exciting corn cake
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Flowers for Algernon
Hairless Piazza
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Exciting corn cake
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a song of ice and fire. I'm not a fantasy guy and I loved it...
hairraiser amethyst shrine juggernaut
  12/18/25
Patrick O'Byrne's Master and Commander and related books in ...
cracking plum home cuckoldry
  12/18/25
Hardy Boys (how old is your kid?) Zen and the Art of Motorc...
flushed abusive bawdyhouse
  12/18/25
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Exciting corn cake
  12/18/25
read that, among others, for my contemporary thought class i...
cowardly translucent range mad cow disease
  12/18/25
zorba the greek
Dashing Emerald Locale Halford
  12/18/25
...
godawful lemon goal in life lay
  12/18/25
Several good recs already upthread. Some others: The Thin...
rough-skinned useless brakes
  12/18/25
Cr. list I feel like The Things They Carried got a bit ov...
godawful lemon goal in life lay
  12/18/25
The Things They Carried is the most classic writer's favorit...
ruddy principal's office
  12/18/25
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rough-skinned useless brakes
  12/18/25
agree with the first sentence and rec. need to exercise cau...
sticky karate scourge upon the earth
  12/22/25
Watership Down A Day No Pigs Would Die 2nd Where the R...
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dark fortuitous meteor deer antler
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Starship Troopers Enders Game Johnny Tremain Childhoods E...
wonderful tattoo degenerate
  12/18/25
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
Supple factory reset button native
  12/19/25
Neon Bible better rec for younger kid
vermilion national security agency knife
  12/19/25
abridged edgar allen poe short stories
ungodly step-uncle's house background story
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM
Author: cowardly translucent range mad cow disease

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: Olive Lodge

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: startling gas station lettuce

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: sickened tank address



(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: Supple factory reset button native

"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: Supple factory reset button native

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: Domesticated Stag Film

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: Bateful chestnut organic girlfriend area

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: Supple factory reset button native

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: swashbuckling den psychic

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: irradiated hall



(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: black crusty cumskin

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: cowardly translucent range mad cow disease

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: black crusty cumskin

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: cowardly translucent range mad cow disease

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: black crusty cumskin

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: Hateful rigpig

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: Dashing Emerald Locale Halford

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: Hateful rigpig

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: Dashing Emerald Locale Halford



(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: swashbuckling den psychic

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: rough-skinned useless brakes

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: cowardly translucent range mad cow disease

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: indecent state dragon

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: cowardly translucent range mad cow disease

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: onyx police squad temple

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: Cerebral alcoholic plaza

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: Vivacious aggressive theater queen of the night

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: Hateful rigpig

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: spruce charismatic weed whacker hairy legs

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: godawful lemon goal in life lay

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: Exciting corn cake



(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: godawful lemon goal in life lay

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: Exciting corn cake



(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: sticky karate scourge upon the earth

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: Dashing Emerald Locale Halford

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: godawful lemon goal in life lay

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: Walnut abnormal senate french chef

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: Bateful chestnut organic girlfriend area

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: Walnut abnormal senate french chef

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: Bateful chestnut organic girlfriend area

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: Walnut abnormal senate french chef

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: Bateful chestnut organic girlfriend area

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: Dashing Emerald Locale Halford

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: vermilion national security agency knife

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: Exciting corn cake



(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: Hairless Piazza

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: Exciting corn cake



(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: hairraiser amethyst shrine juggernaut

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: cracking plum home cuckoldry

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: flushed abusive bawdyhouse

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: Exciting corn cake



(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: cowardly translucent range mad cow disease

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: Dashing Emerald Locale Halford

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: godawful lemon goal in life lay



(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: rough-skinned useless brakes

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: godawful lemon goal in life lay

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: ruddy principal's office

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: rough-skinned useless brakes



(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: sticky karate scourge upon the earth

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: honey-headed university

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: dark fortuitous meteor deer antler



(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: wonderful tattoo degenerate

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: Supple factory reset button native

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: vermilion national security agency knife

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: ungodly step-uncle's house background story

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: 180 grizzly wagecucks

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