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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM Author: useless fragrant jap lay 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=2Reputation#49519424) |
Date: December 18th, 2025 1:15 PM Author: Razzle spruce dopamine 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=2Reputation#49519444) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:21 PM Author: Seedy corner (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49519458) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:35 AM Author: Irradiated Harsh Property "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: Irradiated Harsh Property 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: Crystalline Tanning Salon mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49519459) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:22 PM Author: shimmering liquid oxygen 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: Irradiated Harsh Property 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=2Reputation#49521571) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 9:32 AM Author: contagious brindle school trump supporter 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: autistic bipolar temple (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49519465) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:27 PM Author: Indigo angry library factory reset button Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49519476) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM Author: useless fragrant jap lay 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: Indigo angry library factory reset button 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=2Reputation#49519513) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:37 PM Author: useless fragrant jap lay 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: Indigo angry library factory reset button 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49519559) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:01 PM Author: vivacious massive dog poop ape The eyes and the impossible
sourdough
heart of samurai
artemis
rocket boys |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:13 PM Author: Diverse Pontificating Plaza rocket boys is 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49520282) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 10:18 PM Author: vivacious massive dog poop ape Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49521280) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:34 AM Author: Diverse Pontificating Plaza (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49521595) |
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Date: December 22nd, 2025 10:54 AM Author: contagious brindle school trump supporter 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=2Reputation#49530601) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:54 PM Author: Greedy Dark Dingle Berry 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: useless fragrant jap lay 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=2Reputation#49519767) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:28 PM Author: Lake Unholy Windowlicker The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49519483) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:29 PM Author: useless fragrant jap lay 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: charismatic bisexual trailer park 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: razzmatazz chocolate pistol kitty 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: Aphrodisiac mint principal's office circlehead JackTales 🤡😳 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49519490) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:02 PM Author: vivacious massive dog poop ape those are for reading out loud , clown
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM Author: primrose casino 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: Laughsome Legend Hairy Legs 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: Burgundy effete national security agency (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49519701) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:45 PM Author: Laughsome Legend Hairy Legs 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=2Reputation#49519724) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:41 PM Author: Burgundy effete national security agency (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49519873) |
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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:48 PM Author: crawly chestnut preventive strike boltzmann 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: Diverse Pontificating Plaza Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49519898) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:28 PM Author: Laughsome Legend Hairy Legs 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: stubborn excitant headpube James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard originals though) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:39 PM Author: shimmering liquid oxygen The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49519535) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:51 PM Author: stubborn excitant headpube 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=2Reputation#49519587) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:50 PM Author: shimmering liquid oxygen 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=2Reputation#49519744) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:06 AM Author: stubborn excitant headpube 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: shimmering liquid oxygen tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I think. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49528612) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:46 PM Author: Diverse Pontificating Plaza cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49519729) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:42 PM Author: stirring iridescent range love of her life Anabasis (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49519542) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:48 PM Author: Burgundy effete national security agency (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49519572) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:43 PM Author: snowy mediation heaven Flowers for Algernon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49519548) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:48 PM Author: Burgundy effete national security agency (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49519568) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:55 PM Author: cream dead codepig 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=2Reputation#49519602) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:30 PM Author: Sooty box office death wish Patrick O'Byrne's Master and Commander and related books in the series (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49519689) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:36 PM Author: Crimson stimulating incel site 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: Burgundy effete national security agency (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49519706) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:01 PM Author: useless fragrant jap lay 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=2Reputation#49519770) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:38 PM Author: Diverse Pontificating Plaza zorba the greek
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:49 PM Author: Laughsome Legend Hairy Legs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49519736) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:53 PM Author: Greedy Dark Dingle Berry 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: Laughsome Legend Hairy Legs 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: cerebral magenta space 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=2Reputation#49520815) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 10:12 PM Author: Greedy Dark Dingle Berry (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49521254) |
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Date: December 22nd, 2025 11:44 AM Author: crawly chestnut preventive strike boltzmann 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=2Reputation#49530736) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:09 PM Author: Floppy Roommate Ticket Booth 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: Peach internal respiration (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49520756) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:40 PM Author: impressive son of senegal set Starship Troopers Enders Game Johnny Tremain Childhoods End Rama
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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:16 AM Author: Irradiated Harsh Property A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49521578) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:11 AM Author: stirring iridescent range love of her life Neon Bible better rec for younger kid (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49521698) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:23 AM Author: Electric rehab psychic abridged edgar allen poe short stories (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49521706) |
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Date: December 26th, 2025 12:37 AM Author: disturbing vibrant cuckold university https://kommandostore.com/products/republic-of-south-africa-unconventional-warfare-complete-book-set? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Reputation#49540099) |