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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM Author: Sick useless brakes 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=2],#49519424) |
Date: December 18th, 2025 1:15 PM Author: Clear hideous garrison 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=2],#49519444) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:19 PM Author: Massive Step-uncle's House https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712?
Reasonable price, free shipping. |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:21 PM Author: snowy passionate pocket flask (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2],#49519458) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:35 AM Author: Supple Prole "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: Supple Prole 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: rusted weed whacker bbw mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2],#49519459) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:22 PM Author: green crusty double fault 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: Supple Prole 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=2],#49521571) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 9:32 AM Author: Provocative Water Buffalo Brunch 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: Flesh nibblets ratface 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: flatulent well-lubricated hospital Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2],#49519476) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM Author: Sick useless brakes 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: flatulent well-lubricated hospital 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=2],#49519513) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:37 PM Author: Sick useless brakes 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: flatulent well-lubricated hospital 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2],#49519559) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:01 PM Author: fragrant know-it-all hissy fit The eyes and the impossible
sourdough
heart of samurai
artemis
rocket boys |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:13 PM Author: Violent bisexual ticket booth rigor rocket boys is 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2],#49520282) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 10:18 PM Author: fragrant know-it-all hissy fit Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2],#49521280) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:34 AM Author: Violent bisexual ticket booth rigor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2],#49521595) |
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Date: December 22nd, 2025 10:54 AM Author: Provocative Water Buffalo Brunch 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=2],#49530601) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:54 PM Author: Greedy shitlib 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: Sick useless brakes 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=2],#49519767) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:28 PM Author: beta marvelous parlour The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2],#49519483) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:29 PM Author: Sick useless brakes 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: Appetizing Aqua Space Friendly Grandma 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: aquamarine violent hall sound barrier 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: Chartreuse hominid JackTales 🤡😳 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2],#49519490) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:02 PM Author: fragrant know-it-all hissy fit those are for reading out loud , clown
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM Author: mint vengeful mad cow disease parlor 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 idiot coffee pot 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: mustard sweet tailpipe are you seriously recommending a book on manhood written by a homo? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2],#49519701) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:45 PM Author: gold idiot coffee pot 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=2],#49519724) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:41 PM Author: mustard sweet tailpipe lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2],#49519873) |
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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:48 PM Author: Sickened chapel marketing idea 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: Violent bisexual ticket booth rigor Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2],#49519898) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:28 PM Author: gold idiot coffee pot 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: Hot set James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard originals though) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:39 PM Author: green crusty double fault The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2],#49519535) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:51 PM Author: Hot set 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=2],#49519587) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:50 PM Author: green crusty double fault 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=2],#49519744) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:06 AM Author: Hot set 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: green crusty double fault tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I think. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2],#49528612) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:46 PM Author: Violent bisexual ticket booth rigor cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2],#49519729) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:42 PM Author: glittery cerise feces Anabasis (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2],#49519542) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:48 PM Author: mustard sweet tailpipe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2],#49519572) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:43 PM Author: ungodly trust fund piazza Flowers for Algernon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2],#49519548) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:48 PM Author: mustard sweet tailpipe 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: drunken 180 station 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=2],#49519602) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:30 PM Author: Cracking charcoal party of the first part Patrick O'Byrne's Master and Commander and related books in the series (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2],#49519689) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:36 PM Author: Spectacular olive newt lodge 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: mustard sweet tailpipe > Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
lol |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:01 PM Author: Sick useless brakes 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=2],#49519770) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:38 PM Author: Violent bisexual ticket booth rigor zorba the greek
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:49 PM Author: gold idiot coffee pot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2],#49519736) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:53 PM Author: Greedy shitlib 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 idiot coffee pot 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: Useless Autistic Cuckold Range 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=2],#49520815) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 10:12 PM Author: Greedy shitlib (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2],#49521254) |
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Date: December 22nd, 2025 11:44 AM Author: Sickened chapel marketing idea 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=2],#49530736) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:09 PM Author: Overrated Arousing Boistinker Stead 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: Motley sienna ape (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2],#49520756) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:40 PM Author: curious fishy cruise ship Starship Troopers Enders Game Johnny Tremain Childhoods End Rama
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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:16 AM Author: Supple Prole A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2],#49521578) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:11 AM Author: glittery cerise feces Neon Bible better rec for younger kid (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2],#49521698) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:23 AM Author: big-titted at-the-ready jewess abridged edgar allen poe short stories (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2],#49521706) |
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Date: December 26th, 2025 12:37 AM Author: chrome frozen spot https://kommandostore.com/products/republic-of-south-africa-unconventional-warfare-complete-book-set? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2],#49540099) |