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Book rec for boys ?

any books you read or wish you had read in high school? look...
zippy talented senate private investor
  12/18/25
I would have enjoyed sword and sorcery fantasy. Poul Anderso...
erotic plum location
  12/18/25
https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712? Reasonable price, ...
bespoke beady-eyed goal in life wagecucks
  12/18/25
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Offensive round eye useless brakes
  12/18/25
"There's a trip to the farmers market and time for toys...
Maroon roast beef
  12/19/25
this is now forever in my search history I want you dead,...
Maroon roast beef
  12/19/25
mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel
Carmine big dilemma
  12/18/25
A few offhand: -On the Shortness of Life - Seneca -Sta...
Disgusting red hairy legs
  12/18/25
https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922329&mc=32&a...
Maroon roast beef
  12/19/25
or have the kid wake up xmas morning to an ACTUAL bonfire of...
brass electric furnace
  12/19/25
The Illustrated Man Odyssey The International Jew 1984 M...
electric base
  12/18/25
Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters
aromatic den
  12/18/25
i think my side of the mountain was one of his summer readin...
zippy talented senate private investor
  12/18/25
Where the Red Fern Grows, All Quiet on the Western Front, Ce...
aromatic den
  12/18/25
they did lord of the flies already. ill look up some of your...
zippy talented senate private investor
  12/18/25
180
aromatic den
  12/18/25
The eyes and the impossible sourdough heart of samurai...
Impressive painfully honest gaping becky
  12/18/25
rocket boys is 180
mint embarrassed to the bone range turdskin
  12/18/25
Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo
Impressive painfully honest gaping becky
  12/18/25
...
mint embarrassed to the bone range turdskin
  12/19/25
weird group called the "rocket boys" ran the party...
brass electric furnace
  12/22/25
CR GOAT status books, but would one be "past" thos...
Fragrant hell
  12/18/25
he’s 12/7th grade so i said high school since that&rsq...
zippy talented senate private investor
  12/18/25
The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano)
rose flickering old irish cottage
  12/18/25
ty for the recs, this is helpful i just asked him what bo...
zippy talented senate private investor
  12/18/25
Waste of time unless he's secretly 30+ years old and has rea...
Odious field mood
  12/18/25
seconding count of monte cristo three musketeers is also ...
Charismatic selfie
  12/18/25
JackTales 🤡😳
Vibrant Mauve Tattoo Locale
  12/18/25
those are for reading out loud , clown
Impressive painfully honest gaping becky
  12/18/25
The Boy with Pink Hair by Perez Hilton https://www.amazon...
milky cerebral knife masturbator
  12/18/25
Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz) We Were Soldiers Once… And...
gold useless cruise ship ape
  12/18/25
are you seriously recommending a book on manhood written by ...
Olive state boistinker
  12/18/25
I’m not even sure which author you’re talking ab...
gold useless cruise ship ape
  12/18/25
lol
Olive state boistinker
  12/18/25
he doesn't like the term gay or homo and instead prefers &qu...
Excitant legend
  12/21/25
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000
mint embarrassed to the bone range turdskin
  12/18/25
No young man of any worth can finish that and not have a bet...
gold useless cruise ship ape
  12/18/25
James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard...
sickened alcoholic public bath blood rage
  12/18/25
The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call.
Disgusting red hairy legs
  12/18/25
Once I got into the first one I burned through the rest (12 ...
sickened alcoholic public bath blood rage
  12/18/25
Any chance you can recommend your top 5? I need some new boo...
Disgusting red hairy legs
  12/18/25
1. Goldfinger 2. Moonraker 3. Casino Royale 4. From Russ...
sickened alcoholic public bath blood rage
  12/19/25
tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I th...
Disgusting red hairy legs
  12/21/25
cr
mint embarrassed to the bone range turdskin
  12/18/25
Anabasis
Glittery stag film
  12/18/25
...
Olive state boistinker
  12/18/25
Flowers for Algernon
mind-boggling rigpig
  12/18/25
The Lessons of History - Will & Ariel Durant Man's Sear...
Olive state boistinker
  12/18/25
a song of ice and fire. I'm not a fantasy guy and I loved it...
Mustard Razzle Pit
  12/18/25
Patrick O'Byrne's Master and Commander and related books in ...
swashbuckling coffee pot
  12/18/25
Hardy Boys (how old is your kid?) Zen and the Art of Motorc...
lime toilet seat
  12/18/25
> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance lol
Olive state boistinker
  12/18/25
read that, among others, for my contemporary thought class i...
zippy talented senate private investor
  12/18/25
zorba the greek
mint embarrassed to the bone range turdskin
  12/18/25
...
gold useless cruise ship ape
  12/18/25
Several good recs already upthread. Some others: The Thin...
Fragrant hell
  12/18/25
Cr. list I feel like The Things They Carried got a bit ov...
gold useless cruise ship ape
  12/18/25
The Things They Carried is the most classic writer's favorit...
insecure nursing home dragon
  12/18/25
...
Fragrant hell
  12/18/25
agree with the first sentence and rec. need to exercise cau...
Excitant legend
  12/22/25
Watership Down A Day No Pigs Would Die 2nd Where the R...
umber adulterous sanctuary
  12/18/25
...
flesh messiness
  12/18/25
Starship Troopers Enders Game Johnny Tremain Childhoods E...
Razzmatazz business firm black woman
  12/18/25
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
Maroon roast beef
  12/19/25
Neon Bible better rec for younger kid
Glittery stag film
  12/19/25
abridged edgar allen poe short stories
charcoal property
  12/19/25
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  12/26/25


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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM
Author: zippy talented senate private investor

any books you read or wish you had read in high school? looking for something that would be motivating / tools for life genre

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:15 PM
Author: erotic plum location

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

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:19 PM
Author: bespoke beady-eyed goal in life wagecucks

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

Reasonable price, free shipping.

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:21 PM
Author: Offensive round eye useless brakes



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:35 AM
Author: Maroon roast beef

"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: Maroon roast beef

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: Carmine big dilemma

mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Disgusting red hairy legs

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: Maroon roast beef

https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922329&mc=32&forum_id=2#35633765

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Date: December 19th, 2025 9:32 AM
Author: brass electric furnace

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: electric base

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: aromatic den

Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM
Author: zippy talented senate private investor

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: aromatic den

Where the Red Fern Grows, All Quiet on the Western Front, Celestine Prophecy, Lord of the Flies.

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:37 PM
Author: zippy talented senate private investor

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: aromatic den

180

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:01 PM
Author: Impressive painfully honest gaping becky

The eyes and the impossible

sourdough

heart of samurai

artemis

rocket boys

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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:13 PM
Author: mint embarrassed to the bone range turdskin

rocket boys is 180

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Date: December 18th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Impressive painfully honest gaping becky

Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo

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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:34 AM
Author: mint embarrassed to the bone range turdskin



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: brass electric furnace

weird group called the "rocket boys" ran the party scene at my rural West Virginia high school

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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:54 PM
Author: Fragrant hell

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: zippy talented senate private investor

he’s 12/7th grade so i said high school since that’s more his reading level

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:28 PM
Author: rose flickering old irish cottage

The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano)

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:29 PM
Author: zippy talented senate private investor

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: Odious field mood

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: Charismatic selfie

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: Vibrant Mauve Tattoo Locale

JackTales 🤡😳

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:02 PM
Author: Impressive painfully honest gaping becky

those are for reading out loud , clown



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM
Author: milky cerebral knife masturbator

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: gold useless cruise ship ape

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: Olive state boistinker

are you seriously recommending a book on manhood written by a homo?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:45 PM
Author: gold useless cruise ship ape

I’m not even sure which author you’re talking about, though I’m 99.99% sure that it’s not Moore or Galloway

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:41 PM
Author: Olive state boistinker

lol

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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:48 PM
Author: Excitant legend

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: mint embarrassed to the bone range turdskin

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000

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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:28 PM
Author: gold useless cruise ship ape

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: sickened alcoholic public bath blood rage

James Bond novels

Conan (only read the flemming and howard originals though)

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:39 PM
Author: Disgusting red hairy legs

The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call.

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:51 PM
Author: sickened alcoholic public bath blood rage

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.

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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:50 PM
Author: Disgusting red hairy legs

Any chance you can recommend your top 5? I need some new books to read.

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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:06 AM
Author: sickened alcoholic public bath blood rage

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: Disgusting red hairy legs

tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I think.

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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:46 PM
Author: mint embarrassed to the bone range turdskin

cr

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:42 PM
Author: Glittery stag film

Anabasis

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:48 PM
Author: Olive state boistinker



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:43 PM
Author: mind-boggling rigpig

Flowers for Algernon

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:48 PM
Author: Olive state boistinker

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: Mustard Razzle Pit

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.

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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:30 PM
Author: swashbuckling coffee pot

Patrick O'Byrne's Master and Commander and related books in the series

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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:36 PM
Author: lime toilet seat

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: Olive state boistinker

> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

lol

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: zippy talented senate private investor

read that, among others, for my contemporary thought class in hs. book was so so but class was 180

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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:38 PM
Author: mint embarrassed to the bone range turdskin

zorba the greek



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:49 PM
Author: gold useless cruise ship ape



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:53 PM
Author: Fragrant hell

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: gold useless cruise ship ape

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: insecure nursing home dragon

The Things They Carried is the most classic writer's favorite. You shouldn't look down on librarian recs. This is all they do

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Date: December 18th, 2025 10:12 PM
Author: Fragrant hell



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 11:44 AM
Author: Excitant legend

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

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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:09 PM
Author: umber adulterous sanctuary

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: flesh messiness



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:40 PM
Author: Razzmatazz business firm black woman

Starship Troopers

Enders Game

Johnny Tremain

Childhoods End

Rama



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:16 AM
Author: Maroon roast beef

A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES

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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:11 AM
Author: Glittery stag film

Neon Bible better rec for younger kid

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