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any books you read or wish you had read in high school? look...
Arousing chocolate locus
  12/18/25
I would have enjoyed sword and sorcery fantasy. Poul Anderso...
Black national
  12/18/25
https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712? Reasonable price, ...
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dun house
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"There's a trip to the farmers market and time for toys...
light mewling becky
  12/19/25
this is now forever in my search history I want you dead,...
light mewling becky
  12/19/25
mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel
Orange resort puppy
  12/18/25
A few offhand: -On the Shortness of Life - Seneca -Sta...
heady mauve address trump supporter
  12/18/25
https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922329&mc=32&a...
light mewling becky
  12/19/25
or have the kid wake up xmas morning to an ACTUAL bonfire of...
tantric business firm cuck
  12/19/25
The Illustrated Man Odyssey The International Jew 1984 M...
Azure temple multi-billionaire
  12/18/25
Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters
Lavender aphrodisiac dingle berry karate
  12/18/25
i think my side of the mountain was one of his summer readin...
Arousing chocolate locus
  12/18/25
Where the Red Fern Grows, All Quiet on the Western Front, Ce...
Lavender aphrodisiac dingle berry karate
  12/18/25
they did lord of the flies already. ill look up some of your...
Arousing chocolate locus
  12/18/25
180
Lavender aphrodisiac dingle berry karate
  12/18/25
The eyes and the impossible sourdough heart of samurai...
underhanded principal's office
  12/18/25
rocket boys is 180
titillating orchestra pit
  12/18/25
Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo
underhanded principal's office
  12/18/25
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titillating orchestra pit
  12/19/25
weird group called the "rocket boys" ran the party...
tantric business firm cuck
  12/22/25
CR GOAT status books, but would one be "past" thos...
awkward boiling water
  12/18/25
he’s 12/7th grade so i said high school since that&rsq...
Arousing chocolate locus
  12/18/25
The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano)
aqua newt
  12/18/25
ty for the recs, this is helpful i just asked him what bo...
Arousing chocolate locus
  12/18/25
Waste of time unless he's secretly 30+ years old and has rea...
odious frum french chef
  12/18/25
seconding count of monte cristo three musketeers is also ...
Glassy keepsake machete
  12/18/25
JackTales 🤡😳
Sickened cheese-eating organic girlfriend
  12/18/25
those are for reading out loud , clown
underhanded principal's office
  12/18/25
The Boy with Pink Hair by Perez Hilton https://www.amazon...
Talented Wrinkle
  12/18/25
Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz) We Were Soldiers Once… And...
red wonderful center generalized bond
  12/18/25
are you seriously recommending a book on manhood written by ...
Dashing forum
  12/18/25
I’m not even sure which author you’re talking ab...
red wonderful center generalized bond
  12/18/25
lol
Dashing forum
  12/18/25
he doesn't like the term gay or homo and instead prefers &qu...
brass half-breed
  12/21/25
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000
titillating orchestra pit
  12/18/25
No young man of any worth can finish that and not have a bet...
red wonderful center generalized bond
  12/18/25
James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard...
navy sticky haunted graveyard
  12/18/25
The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call.
heady mauve address trump supporter
  12/18/25
Once I got into the first one I burned through the rest (12 ...
navy sticky haunted graveyard
  12/18/25
Any chance you can recommend your top 5? I need some new boo...
heady mauve address trump supporter
  12/18/25
1. Goldfinger 2. Moonraker 3. Casino Royale 4. From Russ...
navy sticky haunted graveyard
  12/19/25
tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I th...
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  12/21/25
cr
titillating orchestra pit
  12/18/25
Anabasis
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Dashing forum
  12/18/25
Flowers for Algernon
swashbuckling hospital
  12/18/25
The Lessons of History - Will & Ariel Durant Man's Sear...
Dashing forum
  12/18/25
a song of ice and fire. I'm not a fantasy guy and I loved it...
House-broken ladyboy library
  12/18/25
Patrick O'Byrne's Master and Commander and related books in ...
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  12/18/25
Hardy Boys (how old is your kid?) Zen and the Art of Motorc...
Supple duck-like nursing home jew
  12/18/25
> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance lol
Dashing forum
  12/18/25
read that, among others, for my contemporary thought class i...
Arousing chocolate locus
  12/18/25
zorba the greek
titillating orchestra pit
  12/18/25
...
red wonderful center generalized bond
  12/18/25
Several good recs already upthread. Some others: The Thin...
awkward boiling water
  12/18/25
Cr. list I feel like The Things They Carried got a bit ov...
red wonderful center generalized bond
  12/18/25
The Things They Carried is the most classic writer's favorit...
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awkward boiling water
  12/18/25
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  12/22/25
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A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
light mewling becky
  12/19/25
Neon Bible better rec for younger kid
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM
Author: Arousing chocolate locus

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)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:15 PM
Author: Black national

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: boyish bright affirmative action home

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

Reasonable price, free shipping.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49519452)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:21 PM
Author: dun house



(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: light mewling becky

"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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49521596)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:42 AM
Author: light mewling becky

this is now forever in my search history

I want you dead, Malk Poo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49521719)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:21 PM
Author: Orange resort puppy

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: heady mauve address trump supporter

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49519460)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:10 AM
Author: light mewling becky

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: tantric business firm cuck

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: Azure temple multi-billionaire

The Illustrated Man

Odyssey

The International Jew

1984

Meditations

The Myth of Sisyphus

Hamlet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49519465)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:27 PM
Author: Lavender aphrodisiac dingle berry karate

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: Arousing chocolate locus

i think my side of the mountain was one of his summer reading assignments



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49519493)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:34 PM
Author: Lavender aphrodisiac dingle berry karate

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: Arousing chocolate locus

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49519523)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:45 PM
Author: Lavender aphrodisiac dingle berry karate

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: underhanded principal's office

The eyes and the impossible

sourdough

heart of samurai

artemis

rocket boys

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49519953)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:13 PM
Author: titillating orchestra pit

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: underhanded principal's office

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: titillating orchestra pit



(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: tantric business firm cuck

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: awkward boiling water

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49519755)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:00 PM
Author: Arousing chocolate locus

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: aqua newt

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: Arousing chocolate locus

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49519489)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:24 PM
Author: odious frum french chef

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49519679)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:29 PM
Author: Glassy keepsake machete

seconding count of monte cristo

three musketeers is also great and vastly superior to any adaptation

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49519686)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:29 PM
Author: Sickened cheese-eating organic girlfriend

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: underhanded principal's office

those are for reading out loud , clown



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49519956)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM
Author: Talented Wrinkle

The Boy with Pink Hair by Perez Hilton

https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Pink-Hair-Perez-Hilton/dp/0451234200

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49519492)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:32 PM
Author: red wonderful center generalized bond

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: Dashing forum

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: red wonderful center generalized bond

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: Dashing forum

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: brass half-breed

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49528627)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:46 PM
Author: titillating orchestra pit

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: red wonderful center generalized bond

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49520739)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:33 PM
Author: navy sticky haunted graveyard

James Bond novels

Conan (only read the flemming and howard originals though)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49519505)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:39 PM
Author: heady mauve address trump supporter

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: navy sticky haunted graveyard

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: heady mauve address trump supporter

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: navy sticky haunted graveyard

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49522101)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:44 PM
Author: heady mauve address trump supporter

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: titillating orchestra pit

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: Impertinent submissive foreskin trailer park

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: Dashing forum



(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: swashbuckling hospital

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: Dashing forum

The Lessons of History - Will & Ariel Durant

Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49519568)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:55 PM
Author: House-broken ladyboy library

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: vengeful anal double fault

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: Supple duck-like nursing home jew

Hardy Boys (how old is your kid?)

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Dune

anything recent by Lawrence Millman

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49519705)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:37 PM
Author: Dashing forum

> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49519706)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: Arousing chocolate locus

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: titillating orchestra pit

zorba the greek



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49519710)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:49 PM
Author: red wonderful center generalized bond



(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: awkward boiling water

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49519751)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:30 PM
Author: red wonderful center generalized bond

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49520745)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:55 PM
Author: Internet-worthy pearl area reading party

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: awkward boiling water



(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: brass half-breed

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: green theatre striped hyena

Watership Down

A Day No Pigs Would Die

2nd Where the Red Fern Grows

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49520246)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:33 PM
Author: contagious police squad base



(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: alcoholic adventurous voyeur wagecucks

Starship Troopers

Enders Game

Johnny Tremain

Childhoods End

Rama



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2.#49520778)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:16 AM
Author: light mewling becky

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: Impertinent submissive foreskin trailer park

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: Frisky Bateful Community Account

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