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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM Author: gold potus 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=2most#49519424) |
Date: December 18th, 2025 1:15 PM Author: Bespoke clear heaven 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=2most#49519444) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:19 PM Author: Spectacular Queen Of The Night Whorehouse https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712?
Reasonable price, free shipping. |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:21 PM Author: Territorial idiotic ticket booth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2most#49519458) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:35 AM Author: Flickering newt background story "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: Flickering newt background story 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: bistre swashbuckling reading party mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2most#49519459) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:22 PM Author: Aromatic Dragon 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: Flickering newt background story 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=2most#49521571) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 9:32 AM Author: Appetizing duck-like dilemma mental disorder 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: Poppy Know-it-all Turdskin The Illustrated Man Odyssey The International Jew 1984 Meditations The Myth of Sisyphus Hamlet |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:27 PM Author: Motley lemon pit stain Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2most#49519476) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM Author: gold potus 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: Motley lemon pit stain 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=2most#49519513) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:37 PM Author: gold potus 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: Motley lemon pit stain 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2most#49519559) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:01 PM Author: Laughsome slippery site The eyes and the impossible
sourdough
heart of samurai
artemis
rocket boys |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:13 PM Author: Grizzly Center Rigpig rocket boys is 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2most#49520282) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 10:18 PM Author: Laughsome slippery site Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2most#49521280) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:34 AM Author: Grizzly Center Rigpig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2most#49521595) |
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Date: December 22nd, 2025 10:54 AM Author: Appetizing duck-like dilemma mental disorder 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=2most#49530601) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:54 PM Author: Talented mood 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: gold potus 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=2most#49519767) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:28 PM Author: floppy theatre fat ankles The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2most#49519483) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:29 PM Author: gold potus 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: Nofapping rebellious institution 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: pearly vigorous den indirect expression 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: mahogany incel JackTales 🤡😳 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2most#49519490) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:02 PM Author: Laughsome slippery site those are for reading out loud , clown
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM Author: Supple sapphire resort gaping 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: sick green tanning salon old irish cottage 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: Demanding cobalt piazza are you seriously recommending a book on manhood written by a homo? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2most#49519701) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:45 PM Author: sick green tanning salon old irish cottage 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=2most#49519724) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:41 PM Author: Demanding cobalt piazza lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2most#49519873) |
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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:48 PM Author: Greedy Brethren 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 |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:46 PM Author: Grizzly Center Rigpig Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2most#49519898) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:28 PM Author: sick green tanning salon old irish cottage 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: Kink-friendly cyan clown James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard originals though) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:39 PM Author: Aromatic Dragon The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2most#49519535) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:51 PM Author: Kink-friendly cyan clown 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=2most#49519587) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:50 PM Author: Aromatic Dragon 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=2most#49519744) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:06 AM Author: Kink-friendly cyan clown 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: Aromatic Dragon tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I think. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2most#49528612) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:46 PM Author: Grizzly Center Rigpig cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2most#49519729) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:42 PM Author: heady brilliant telephone Anabasis (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2most#49519542) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:48 PM Author: Demanding cobalt piazza (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2most#49519572) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:43 PM Author: bisexual university pervert Flowers for Algernon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2most#49519548) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:48 PM Author: Demanding cobalt piazza The Lessons of History - Will & Ariel Durant Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:55 PM Author: khaki lay 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=2most#49519602) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:30 PM Author: Ivory alcoholic toilet seat Patrick O'Byrne's Master and Commander and related books in the series (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2most#49519689) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:36 PM Author: self-absorbed gay wizard 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: Demanding cobalt piazza > Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
lol |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:01 PM Author: gold potus 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=2most#49519770) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:38 PM Author: Grizzly Center Rigpig zorba the greek
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:49 PM Author: sick green tanning salon old irish cottage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2most#49519736) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:53 PM Author: Talented mood 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: sick green tanning salon old irish cottage 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: stirring stag film pozpig 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=2most#49520815) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 10:12 PM Author: Talented mood (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2most#49521254) |
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Date: December 22nd, 2025 11:44 AM Author: Greedy Brethren 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=2most#49530736) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:09 PM Author: vengeful school 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: charismatic gaped church (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2most#49520756) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:40 PM Author: curious meetinghouse boltzmann Starship Troopers Enders Game Johnny Tremain Childhoods End Rama
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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:16 AM Author: Flickering newt background story A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2most#49521578) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:11 AM Author: heady brilliant telephone Neon Bible better rec for younger kid (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2most#49521698) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:23 AM Author: bearded public bath really tough guy abridged edgar allen poe short stories (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2most#49521706) |
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Date: December 26th, 2025 12:37 AM Author: Aphrodisiac dysfunction https://kommandostore.com/products/republic-of-south-africa-unconventional-warfare-complete-book-set? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2most#49540099) |