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any books you read or wish you had read in high school? look...
sick trailer park
  12/18/25
I would have enjoyed sword and sorcery fantasy. Poul Anderso...
floppy sandwich heaven
  12/18/25
https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712? Reasonable price, ...
mewling haunting telephone parlour
  12/18/25
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brindle thriller corn cake sanctuary
  12/18/25
"There's a trip to the farmers market and time for toys...
flickering wrinkle
  12/19/25
this is now forever in my search history I want you dead,...
flickering wrinkle
  12/19/25
mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel
Titillating fear-inspiring meetinghouse patrolman
  12/18/25
A few offhand: -On the Shortness of Life - Seneca -Sta...
contagious pit macaca
  12/18/25
https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922329&mc=32&a...
flickering wrinkle
  12/19/25
or have the kid wake up xmas morning to an ACTUAL bonfire of...
Vibrant lavender private investor theater
  12/19/25
The Illustrated Man Odyssey The International Jew 1984 M...
Flirting Cuckold Hospital
  12/18/25
Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters
Erotic state
  12/18/25
i think my side of the mountain was one of his summer readin...
sick trailer park
  12/18/25
Where the Red Fern Grows, All Quiet on the Western Front, Ce...
Erotic state
  12/18/25
they did lord of the flies already. ill look up some of your...
sick trailer park
  12/18/25
180
Erotic state
  12/18/25
The eyes and the impossible sourdough heart of samurai...
poppy nudist international law enforcement agency parlor
  12/18/25
rocket boys is 180
deep coral church building
  12/18/25
Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo
poppy nudist international law enforcement agency parlor
  12/18/25
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deep coral church building
  12/19/25
weird group called the "rocket boys" ran the party...
Vibrant lavender private investor theater
  12/22/25
CR GOAT status books, but would one be "past" thos...
grizzly drunken trust fund
  12/18/25
he’s 12/7th grade so i said high school since that&rsq...
sick trailer park
  12/18/25
The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano)
appetizing aqua tanning salon mad-dog skullcap
  12/18/25
ty for the recs, this is helpful i just asked him what bo...
sick trailer park
  12/18/25
Waste of time unless he's secretly 30+ years old and has rea...
Dashing sweet tailpipe
  12/18/25
seconding count of monte cristo three musketeers is also ...
Soul-stirring ruby rehab
  12/18/25
JackTales 🤡😳
Hairraiser Pearly School Cafeteria Partner
  12/18/25
those are for reading out loud , clown
poppy nudist international law enforcement agency parlor
  12/18/25
The Boy with Pink Hair by Perez Hilton https://www.amazon...
Razzle-dazzle jade stage
  12/18/25
Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz) We Were Soldiers Once… And...
ocher point
  12/18/25
are you seriously recommending a book on manhood written by ...
Cerebral legal warrant
  12/18/25
I’m not even sure which author you’re talking ab...
ocher point
  12/18/25
lol
Cerebral legal warrant
  12/18/25
he doesn't like the term gay or homo and instead prefers &qu...
Cracking alcoholic stag film
  12/21/25
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000
deep coral church building
  12/18/25
No young man of any worth can finish that and not have a bet...
ocher point
  12/18/25
James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard...
hyperactive gaping location
  12/18/25
The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call.
contagious pit macaca
  12/18/25
Once I got into the first one I burned through the rest (12 ...
hyperactive gaping location
  12/18/25
Any chance you can recommend your top 5? I need some new boo...
contagious pit macaca
  12/18/25
1. Goldfinger 2. Moonraker 3. Casino Royale 4. From Russ...
hyperactive gaping location
  12/19/25
tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I th...
contagious pit macaca
  12/21/25
cr
deep coral church building
  12/18/25
Anabasis
razzle plum indirect expression plaza
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Cerebral legal warrant
  12/18/25
Flowers for Algernon
electric honey-headed locale
  12/18/25
The Lessons of History - Will & Ariel Durant Man's Sear...
Cerebral legal warrant
  12/18/25
a song of ice and fire. I'm not a fantasy guy and I loved it...
Irradiated box office fortuitous meteor
  12/18/25
Patrick O'Byrne's Master and Commander and related books in ...
Fuchsia lodge
  12/18/25
Hardy Boys (how old is your kid?) Zen and the Art of Motorc...
well-lubricated clown cruise ship
  12/18/25
> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance lol
Cerebral legal warrant
  12/18/25
read that, among others, for my contemporary thought class i...
sick trailer park
  12/18/25
zorba the greek
deep coral church building
  12/18/25
...
ocher point
  12/18/25
Several good recs already upthread. Some others: The Thin...
grizzly drunken trust fund
  12/18/25
Cr. list I feel like The Things They Carried got a bit ov...
ocher point
  12/18/25
The Things They Carried is the most classic writer's favorit...
Multi-colored vengeful dog poop
  12/18/25
...
grizzly drunken trust fund
  12/18/25
agree with the first sentence and rec. need to exercise cau...
Cracking alcoholic stag film
  12/22/25
Watership Down A Day No Pigs Would Die 2nd Where the R...
Costumed wonderful nursing home
  12/18/25
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Mentally impaired ticket booth
  12/18/25
Starship Troopers Enders Game Johnny Tremain Childhoods E...
Red excitant associate
  12/18/25
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
flickering wrinkle
  12/19/25
Neon Bible better rec for younger kid
razzle plum indirect expression plaza
  12/19/25
abridged edgar allen poe short stories
Provocative Candlestick Maker
  12/19/25
https://kommandostore.com/products/republic-of-south-africa-...
Overrated Irate Office
  12/26/25


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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM
Author: sick trailer park

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)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:15 PM
Author: floppy sandwich 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: mewling haunting telephone parlour

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

Reasonable price, free shipping.

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



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:21 PM
Author: brindle thriller corn cake sanctuary



(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 wrinkle

"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=2most#49521596)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:42 AM
Author: flickering wrinkle

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=2most#49521719)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:21 PM
Author: Titillating fear-inspiring meetinghouse patrolman

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: contagious pit macaca

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=2most#49519460)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:10 AM
Author: flickering wrinkle

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: Vibrant lavender private investor theater

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=2most#49522050)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Flirting Cuckold Hospital

The Illustrated Man

Odyssey

The International Jew

1984

Meditations

The Myth of Sisyphus

Hamlet

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



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:27 PM
Author: Erotic state

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: sick trailer park

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=2most#49519493)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:34 PM
Author: Erotic state

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: sick trailer park

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=2most#49519523)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:45 PM
Author: Erotic state

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: poppy nudist international law enforcement agency parlor

The eyes and the impossible

sourdough

heart of samurai

artemis

rocket boys

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



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:13 PM
Author: deep coral church building

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: poppy nudist international law enforcement agency parlor

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: deep coral church building



(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: Vibrant lavender private investor theater

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: grizzly drunken trust fund

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=2most#49519755)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:00 PM
Author: sick trailer park

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: appetizing aqua tanning salon mad-dog skullcap

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: sick trailer park

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=2most#49519489)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:24 PM
Author: Dashing sweet tailpipe

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=2most#49519679)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:29 PM
Author: Soul-stirring ruby rehab

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=2most#49519686)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:29 PM
Author: Hairraiser Pearly School Cafeteria Partner

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: poppy nudist international law enforcement agency parlor

those are for reading out loud , clown



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



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle jade stage

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=2most#49519492)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:32 PM
Author: ocher point

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=2most#49519502)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:35 PM
Author: Cerebral legal warrant

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: ocher point

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: Cerebral legal warrant

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: Cracking alcoholic stag film

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=2most#49528627)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:46 PM
Author: deep coral church building

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: ocher point

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=2most#49520739)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:33 PM
Author: hyperactive gaping location

James Bond novels

Conan (only read the flemming and howard originals though)

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



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:39 PM
Author: contagious pit macaca

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: hyperactive gaping location

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: contagious pit macaca

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: hyperactive gaping location

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=2most#49522101)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:44 PM
Author: contagious pit macaca

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: deep coral church building

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: razzle plum indirect expression plaza

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: Cerebral legal warrant



(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: electric honey-headed locale

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: Cerebral legal warrant

The Lessons of History - Will & Ariel Durant

Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl

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



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:55 PM
Author: Irradiated box office fortuitous meteor

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: Fuchsia lodge

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: well-lubricated clown cruise ship

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=2most#49519705)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:37 PM
Author: Cerebral legal warrant

> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

lol

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



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: sick trailer park

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: deep coral church building

zorba the greek



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



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:49 PM
Author: ocher point



(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: grizzly drunken trust fund

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=2most#49519751)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:30 PM
Author: ocher point

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=2most#49520745)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:55 PM
Author: Multi-colored vengeful dog poop

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: grizzly drunken trust fund



(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: Cracking alcoholic stag film

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: Costumed wonderful nursing home

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=2most#49520246)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:33 PM
Author: Mentally impaired ticket booth



(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: Red excitant associate

Starship Troopers

Enders Game

Johnny Tremain

Childhoods End

Rama



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



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:16 AM
Author: flickering wrinkle

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: razzle plum indirect expression plaza

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: Provocative Candlestick Maker

abridged edgar allen poe short stories

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Date: December 26th, 2025 12:37 AM
Author: Overrated Irate Office

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