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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM Author: Exciting Temple 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: Cerebral Very Tactful Half-breed 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: mahogany multi-colored windowlicker sound barrier https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712?
Reasonable price, free shipping. |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:21 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle arrogant property kitty (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: vigorous high-end gaping "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: vigorous high-end gaping 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: Doobsian dashing codepig institution 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: Henna field 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: vigorous high-end gaping 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: Stimulating pearl heaven 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: Balding sticky shitlib 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: bateful haunted graveyard fortuitous meteor 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: Exciting Temple 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: bateful haunted graveyard fortuitous meteor 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: Exciting Temple 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: bateful haunted graveyard fortuitous meteor 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: histrionic parlor candlestick maker The eyes and the impossible
sourdough
heart of samurai
artemis
rocket boys |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:13 PM Author: Khaki adventurous stead 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: histrionic parlor candlestick maker 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: Khaki adventurous stead (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: Stimulating pearl heaven 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: Buff Tripping Antidepressant Drug 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: Exciting Temple 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: boyish bonkers indian lodge 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: Exciting Temple 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: racy sapphire selfie 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: azure aggressive son of senegal 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: cyan cuckoldry 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: histrionic parlor candlestick maker those are for reading out loud , clown
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM Author: Startled comical dilemma 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: vivacious church preventive strike 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: pungent internal respiration deer antler 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: vivacious church preventive strike 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: pungent internal respiration deer antler 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: Hateful Fat Ankles 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: Khaki adventurous stead 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: vivacious church preventive strike 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: Bright Flickering Electric Furnace Scourge Upon The Earth James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard originals though) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:39 PM Author: Henna field 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: Bright Flickering Electric Furnace Scourge Upon The Earth 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: Henna field 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: Bright Flickering Electric Furnace Scourge Upon The Earth 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: Henna field 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: Khaki adventurous stead 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: Odious Flushed Potus 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: pungent internal respiration deer antler (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: Thriller insanely creepy resort newt 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: pungent internal respiration deer antler 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: provocative idea he suggested hairy legs 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: Iridescent public bath 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: Umber disrespectful really tough guy 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: pungent internal respiration deer antler > Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
lol |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:01 PM Author: Exciting Temple 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: Khaki adventurous stead zorba the greek
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:49 PM Author: vivacious church preventive strike (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: Buff Tripping Antidepressant Drug 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: vivacious church preventive strike 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: Big gaming laptop alpha 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: Buff Tripping Antidepressant Drug (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: Hateful Fat Ankles 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: bronze contagious state old irish cottage 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: saffron electric national (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: Hairraiser center Starship Troopers Enders Game Johnny Tremain Childhoods End Rama
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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:16 AM Author: vigorous high-end gaping 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: Odious Flushed Potus 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: geriatric garnet trump supporter 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: Impressive hall 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) |