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any books you read or wish you had read in high school? look...
ruddy parlor
  12/18/25
I would have enjoyed sword and sorcery fantasy. Poul Anderso...
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this is now forever in my search history I want you dead,...
Costumed laughsome rigor electric furnace
  12/19/25
mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel
vivacious rough-skinned theater stage
  12/18/25
A few offhand: -On the Shortness of Life - Seneca -Sta...
heady whorehouse
  12/18/25
https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922329&mc=32&a...
Costumed laughsome rigor electric furnace
  12/19/25
or have the kid wake up xmas morning to an ACTUAL bonfire of...
Vigorous school cafeteria
  12/19/25
The Illustrated Man Odyssey The International Jew 1984 M...
Passionate point
  12/18/25
Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters
wonderful casino
  12/18/25
i think my side of the mountain was one of his summer readin...
ruddy parlor
  12/18/25
Where the Red Fern Grows, All Quiet on the Western Front, Ce...
wonderful casino
  12/18/25
they did lord of the flies already. ill look up some of your...
ruddy parlor
  12/18/25
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wonderful casino
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The eyes and the impossible sourdough heart of samurai...
startled church
  12/18/25
rocket boys is 180
irradiated native karate
  12/18/25
Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo
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  12/18/25
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irradiated native karate
  12/19/25
weird group called the "rocket boys" ran the party...
Vigorous school cafeteria
  12/22/25
CR GOAT status books, but would one be "past" thos...
Twisted state
  12/18/25
he’s 12/7th grade so i said high school since that&rsq...
ruddy parlor
  12/18/25
The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano)
fantasy-prone bespoke brethren
  12/18/25
ty for the recs, this is helpful i just asked him what bo...
ruddy parlor
  12/18/25
Waste of time unless he's secretly 30+ years old and has rea...
Greedy cocky forum philosopher-king
  12/18/25
seconding count of monte cristo three musketeers is also ...
hilarious tantric house
  12/18/25
JackTales 🤡😳
appetizing temple
  12/18/25
those are for reading out loud , clown
startled church
  12/18/25
The Boy with Pink Hair by Perez Hilton https://www.amazon...
Maniacal Skinny Woman
  12/18/25
Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz) We Were Soldiers Once… And...
Mahogany spectacular locus affirmative action
  12/18/25
are you seriously recommending a book on manhood written by ...
territorial charismatic home
  12/18/25
I’m not even sure which author you’re talking ab...
Mahogany spectacular locus affirmative action
  12/18/25
lol
territorial charismatic home
  12/18/25
he doesn't like the term gay or homo and instead prefers &qu...
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Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000
irradiated native karate
  12/18/25
No young man of any worth can finish that and not have a bet...
Mahogany spectacular locus affirmative action
  12/18/25
James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard...
flesh crackhouse
  12/18/25
The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call.
heady whorehouse
  12/18/25
Once I got into the first one I burned through the rest (12 ...
flesh crackhouse
  12/18/25
Any chance you can recommend your top 5? I need some new boo...
heady whorehouse
  12/18/25
1. Goldfinger 2. Moonraker 3. Casino Royale 4. From Russ...
flesh crackhouse
  12/19/25
tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I th...
heady whorehouse
  12/21/25
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irradiated native karate
  12/18/25
Anabasis
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territorial charismatic home
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Flowers for Algernon
brass brunch selfie
  12/18/25
The Lessons of History - Will & Ariel Durant Man's Sear...
territorial charismatic home
  12/18/25
a song of ice and fire. I'm not a fantasy guy and I loved it...
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  12/18/25
Patrick O'Byrne's Master and Commander and related books in ...
boyish plaza
  12/18/25
Hardy Boys (how old is your kid?) Zen and the Art of Motorc...
abusive insanely creepy shrine mad-dog skullcap
  12/18/25
> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance lol
territorial charismatic home
  12/18/25
read that, among others, for my contemporary thought class i...
ruddy parlor
  12/18/25
zorba the greek
irradiated native karate
  12/18/25
...
Mahogany spectacular locus affirmative action
  12/18/25
Several good recs already upthread. Some others: The Thin...
Twisted state
  12/18/25
Cr. list I feel like The Things They Carried got a bit ov...
Mahogany spectacular locus affirmative action
  12/18/25
The Things They Carried is the most classic writer's favorit...
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Twisted state
  12/18/25
agree with the first sentence and rec. need to exercise cau...
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Watership Down A Day No Pigs Would Die 2nd Where the R...
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Starship Troopers Enders Game Johnny Tremain Childhoods E...
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A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
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Neon Bible better rec for younger kid
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  12/19/25
abridged edgar allen poe short stories
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM
Author: ruddy parlor

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: salmon galvanic chapel legal warrant

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: vermilion cruise ship

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

Reasonable price, free shipping.

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:21 PM
Author: aphrodisiac copper space preventive strike



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:35 AM
Author: Costumed laughsome rigor electric furnace

"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: Costumed laughsome rigor electric furnace

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: vivacious rough-skinned theater stage

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

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: heady whorehouse

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: Costumed laughsome rigor electric furnace

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: Vigorous school cafeteria

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=2],#49522050)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Passionate point

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: wonderful casino

Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM
Author: ruddy parlor

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: wonderful casino

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: ruddy parlor

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: wonderful casino

180

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:01 PM
Author: startled church

The eyes and the impossible

sourdough

heart of samurai

artemis

rocket boys

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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:13 PM
Author: irradiated native karate

rocket boys is 180

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Date: December 18th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: startled church

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

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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:34 AM
Author: irradiated native karate



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: Vigorous school cafeteria

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: Twisted state

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: ruddy parlor

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: fantasy-prone bespoke brethren

The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano)

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:29 PM
Author: ruddy parlor

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: Greedy cocky forum philosopher-king

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: hilarious tantric house

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: appetizing temple

JackTales 🤡😳

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:02 PM
Author: startled church

those are for reading out loud , clown



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM
Author: Maniacal Skinny Woman

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: Mahogany spectacular locus affirmative action

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=2],#49519502)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:35 PM
Author: territorial charismatic home

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

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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:45 PM
Author: Mahogany spectacular locus affirmative action

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: territorial charismatic home

lol

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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:48 PM
Author: White bipolar tanning salon mexican

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: irradiated native karate

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000

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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:28 PM
Author: Mahogany spectacular locus affirmative action

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: flesh crackhouse

James Bond novels

Conan (only read the flemming and howard originals though)

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:39 PM
Author: heady whorehouse

The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call.

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:51 PM
Author: flesh crackhouse

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: heady whorehouse

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: flesh crackhouse

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: heady whorehouse

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

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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:46 PM
Author: irradiated native karate

cr

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:42 PM
Author: translucent comical dilemma prole

Anabasis

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:48 PM
Author: territorial charismatic home



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:43 PM
Author: brass brunch selfie

Flowers for Algernon

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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:48 PM
Author: territorial charismatic home

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: unholy roommate ticket booth

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: boyish plaza

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: abusive insanely creepy shrine mad-dog skullcap

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: territorial charismatic home

> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

lol

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: ruddy parlor

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: irradiated native karate

zorba the greek



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:49 PM
Author: Mahogany spectacular locus affirmative action



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:53 PM
Author: Twisted state

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: Mahogany spectacular locus affirmative action

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: Well-lubricated field

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: Twisted state



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 11:44 AM
Author: White bipolar tanning salon mexican

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: Bull headed partner

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: talented fortuitous meteor



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:40 PM
Author: Aquamarine Motley Famous Landscape Painting

Starship Troopers

Enders Game

Johnny Tremain

Childhoods End

Rama



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:16 AM
Author: Costumed laughsome rigor electric furnace

A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES

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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:11 AM
Author: translucent comical dilemma prole

Neon Bible better rec for younger kid

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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:23 AM
Author: twinkling area really tough guy

abridged edgar allen poe short stories

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