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Book rec for boys ?

any books you read or wish you had read in high school? look...
tripping bawdyhouse
  12/18/25
I would have enjoyed sword and sorcery fantasy. Poul Anderso...
Bull Headed House Coffee Pot
  12/18/25
https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712? Reasonable price, ...
cobalt corn cake fortuitous meteor
  12/18/25
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Odious sapphire native famous landscape painting
  12/18/25
"There's a trip to the farmers market and time for toys...
wonderful spruce tattoo legend
  12/19/25
this is now forever in my search history I want you dead,...
wonderful spruce tattoo legend
  12/19/25
mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel
fishy unhinged faggot firefighter stock car
  12/18/25
A few offhand: -On the Shortness of Life - Seneca -Sta...
Soggy Pisswyrm
  12/18/25
https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922329&mc=32&a...
wonderful spruce tattoo legend
  12/19/25
or have the kid wake up xmas morning to an ACTUAL bonfire of...
Lascivious Tantric Giraffe
  12/19/25
The Illustrated Man Odyssey The International Jew 1984 M...
thriller violent piazza mad-dog skullcap
  12/18/25
Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters
Orange codepig
  12/18/25
i think my side of the mountain was one of his summer readin...
tripping bawdyhouse
  12/18/25
Where the Red Fern Grows, All Quiet on the Western Front, Ce...
Orange codepig
  12/18/25
they did lord of the flies already. ill look up some of your...
tripping bawdyhouse
  12/18/25
180
Orange codepig
  12/18/25
The eyes and the impossible sourdough heart of samurai...
Electric elastic band
  12/18/25
rocket boys is 180
Blathering glittery internal respiration dog poop
  12/18/25
Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo
Electric elastic band
  12/18/25
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Blathering glittery internal respiration dog poop
  12/19/25
weird group called the "rocket boys" ran the party...
Lascivious Tantric Giraffe
  12/22/25
CR GOAT status books, but would one be "past" thos...
cracking azn ape
  12/18/25
he’s 12/7th grade so i said high school since that&rsq...
tripping bawdyhouse
  12/18/25
The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano)
Exhilarant university associate
  12/18/25
ty for the recs, this is helpful i just asked him what bo...
tripping bawdyhouse
  12/18/25
Waste of time unless he's secretly 30+ years old and has rea...
comical dead party of the first part
  12/18/25
seconding count of monte cristo three musketeers is also ...
Arousing Buff Pervert
  12/18/25
JackTales 🤡😳
Cream milk
  12/18/25
those are for reading out loud , clown
Electric elastic band
  12/18/25
The Boy with Pink Hair by Perez Hilton https://www.amazon...
Mildly autistic exciting pistol kitchen
  12/18/25
Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz) We Were Soldiers Once… And...
boyish tank jew
  12/18/25
are you seriously recommending a book on manhood written by ...
curious theater
  12/18/25
I’m not even sure which author you’re talking ab...
boyish tank jew
  12/18/25
lol
curious theater
  12/18/25
he doesn't like the term gay or homo and instead prefers &qu...
Adulterous Half-breed Point
  12/21/25
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000
Blathering glittery internal respiration dog poop
  12/18/25
No young man of any worth can finish that and not have a bet...
boyish tank jew
  12/18/25
James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard...
Light goal in life
  12/18/25
The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call.
Soggy Pisswyrm
  12/18/25
Once I got into the first one I burned through the rest (12 ...
Light goal in life
  12/18/25
Any chance you can recommend your top 5? I need some new boo...
Soggy Pisswyrm
  12/18/25
1. Goldfinger 2. Moonraker 3. Casino Royale 4. From Russ...
Light goal in life
  12/19/25
tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I th...
Soggy Pisswyrm
  12/21/25
cr
Blathering glittery internal respiration dog poop
  12/18/25
Anabasis
cerebral prole
  12/18/25
...
curious theater
  12/18/25
Flowers for Algernon
Obsidian mind-boggling theatre haunted graveyard
  12/18/25
The Lessons of History - Will & Ariel Durant Man's Sear...
curious theater
  12/18/25
a song of ice and fire. I'm not a fantasy guy and I loved it...
clear black woman
  12/18/25
Patrick O'Byrne's Master and Commander and related books in ...
gold immigrant
  12/18/25
Hardy Boys (how old is your kid?) Zen and the Art of Motorc...
garnet toilet seat bbw
  12/18/25
> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance lol
curious theater
  12/18/25
read that, among others, for my contemporary thought class i...
tripping bawdyhouse
  12/18/25
zorba the greek
Blathering glittery internal respiration dog poop
  12/18/25
...
boyish tank jew
  12/18/25
Several good recs already upthread. Some others: The Thin...
cracking azn ape
  12/18/25
Cr. list I feel like The Things They Carried got a bit ov...
boyish tank jew
  12/18/25
The Things They Carried is the most classic writer's favorit...
Nudist pungent round eye
  12/18/25
...
cracking azn ape
  12/18/25
agree with the first sentence and rec. need to exercise cau...
Adulterous Half-breed Point
  12/22/25
Watership Down A Day No Pigs Would Die 2nd Where the R...
Salmon digit ratio
  12/18/25
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rusted box office
  12/18/25
Starship Troopers Enders Game Johnny Tremain Childhoods E...
red bearded indirect expression
  12/18/25
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
wonderful spruce tattoo legend
  12/19/25
Neon Bible better rec for younger kid
cerebral prole
  12/19/25
abridged edgar allen poe short stories
Wild beady-eyed roommate dysfunction
  12/19/25
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  12/26/25


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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM
Author: tripping bawdyhouse

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: Bull Headed House Coffee Pot

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: cobalt corn cake fortuitous meteor

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

Reasonable price, free shipping.

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:21 PM
Author: Odious sapphire native famous landscape painting



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:35 AM
Author: wonderful spruce tattoo legend

"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: wonderful spruce tattoo legend

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: fishy unhinged faggot firefighter stock car

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

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Soggy Pisswyrm

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: wonderful spruce tattoo legend

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: Lascivious Tantric Giraffe

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: thriller violent piazza mad-dog skullcap

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: Orange codepig

Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM
Author: tripping bawdyhouse

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: Orange codepig

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: tripping bawdyhouse

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: Orange codepig

180

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:01 PM
Author: Electric elastic band

The eyes and the impossible

sourdough

heart of samurai

artemis

rocket boys

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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:13 PM
Author: Blathering glittery internal respiration dog poop

rocket boys is 180

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Date: December 18th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Electric elastic band

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

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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:34 AM
Author: Blathering glittery internal respiration dog poop



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: Lascivious Tantric Giraffe

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: cracking azn ape

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: tripping bawdyhouse

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: Exhilarant university associate

The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano)

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:29 PM
Author: tripping bawdyhouse

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: comical dead party of the first part

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: Arousing Buff Pervert

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: Cream milk

JackTales 🤡😳

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:02 PM
Author: Electric elastic band

those are for reading out loud , clown



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM
Author: Mildly autistic exciting pistol kitchen

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: boyish tank jew

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: curious theater

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

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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:45 PM
Author: boyish tank jew

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: curious theater

lol

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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:48 PM
Author: Adulterous Half-breed Point

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: Blathering glittery internal respiration dog poop

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000

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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:28 PM
Author: boyish tank jew

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: Light goal in life

James Bond novels

Conan (only read the flemming and howard originals though)

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:39 PM
Author: Soggy Pisswyrm

The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call.

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:51 PM
Author: Light goal in life

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: Soggy Pisswyrm

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: Light goal in life

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: Soggy Pisswyrm

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

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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:46 PM
Author: Blathering glittery internal respiration dog poop

cr

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:42 PM
Author: cerebral prole

Anabasis

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:48 PM
Author: curious theater



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:43 PM
Author: Obsidian mind-boggling theatre haunted graveyard

Flowers for Algernon

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:48 PM
Author: curious theater

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: clear black woman

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: gold immigrant

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: garnet toilet seat bbw

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: curious theater

> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

lol

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: tripping bawdyhouse

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: Blathering glittery internal respiration dog poop

zorba the greek



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:49 PM
Author: boyish tank jew



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:53 PM
Author: cracking azn ape

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: boyish tank jew

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: Nudist pungent round eye

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: cracking azn ape



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 11:44 AM
Author: Adulterous Half-breed Point

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: Salmon digit ratio

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: rusted box office



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:40 PM
Author: red bearded indirect expression

Starship Troopers

Enders Game

Johnny Tremain

Childhoods End

Rama



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:16 AM
Author: wonderful spruce tattoo legend

A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES

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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:11 AM
Author: cerebral prole

Neon Bible better rec for younger kid

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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:23 AM
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