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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM Author: translucent school cafeteria 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=2Elisa#49519424) |
Date: December 18th, 2025 1:15 PM Author: bright federal roast beef 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=2Elisa#49519444) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:19 PM Author: wonderful claret field https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712?
Reasonable price, free shipping. |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:21 PM Author: Talented Narrow-minded Parlor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Elisa#49519458) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:35 AM Author: olive garrison therapy "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: olive garrison therapy 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: Boyish jewess blood rage mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Elisa#49519459) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:22 PM Author: Shimmering stage ape 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: olive garrison therapy 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=2Elisa#49521571) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 9:32 AM Author: Exhilarant Voyeur 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: chocolate hateful fanboi 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: sepia market patrolman Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Elisa#49519476) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM Author: translucent school cafeteria 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: sepia market patrolman 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=2Elisa#49519513) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:37 PM Author: translucent school cafeteria 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: sepia market patrolman 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Elisa#49519559) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:01 PM Author: comical area volcanic crater The eyes and the impossible
sourdough
heart of samurai
artemis
rocket boys |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:13 PM Author: grizzly beta kitty cat brunch rocket boys is 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Elisa#49520282) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 10:18 PM Author: comical area volcanic crater Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Elisa#49521280) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:34 AM Author: grizzly beta kitty cat brunch (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Elisa#49521595) |
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Date: December 22nd, 2025 10:54 AM Author: Exhilarant Voyeur 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=2Elisa#49530601) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:54 PM Author: Plum Concupiscible Pocket Flask Locale 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: translucent school cafeteria 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=2Elisa#49519767) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:28 PM Author: Burgundy rambunctious indirect expression The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Elisa#49519483) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:29 PM Author: translucent school cafeteria 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: vigorous spot striped hyena 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: Yellow apoplectic property 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: Charismatic mentally impaired liquid oxygen idiot JackTales 🤡😳 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Elisa#49519490) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:02 PM Author: comical area volcanic crater those are for reading out loud , clown
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM Author: Umber personal credit line filthpig 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: brindle heady range 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: white multi-colored indian lodge dopamine are you seriously recommending a book on manhood written by a homo? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Elisa#49519701) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:45 PM Author: brindle heady range 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=2Elisa#49519724) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:41 PM Author: white multi-colored indian lodge dopamine lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Elisa#49519873) |
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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:48 PM Author: beady-eyed citrine ratface 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: grizzly beta kitty cat brunch Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Elisa#49519898) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:28 PM Author: brindle heady range 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: Bistre razzle trust fund James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard originals though) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:39 PM Author: Shimmering stage ape The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Elisa#49519535) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:51 PM Author: Bistre razzle trust fund 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=2Elisa#49519587) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:50 PM Author: Shimmering stage ape 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=2Elisa#49519744) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:06 AM Author: Bistre razzle trust fund 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: Shimmering stage ape tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I think. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Elisa#49528612) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:46 PM Author: grizzly beta kitty cat brunch cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Elisa#49519729) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:42 PM Author: Slippery old irish cottage place of business Anabasis (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Elisa#49519542) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:48 PM Author: white multi-colored indian lodge dopamine (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Elisa#49519572) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:43 PM Author: Galvanic pontificating theater trump supporter Flowers for Algernon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Elisa#49519548) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:48 PM Author: white multi-colored indian lodge dopamine 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: Lavender nubile abode mexican 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=2Elisa#49519602) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:30 PM Author: Crusty mood Patrick O'Byrne's Master and Commander and related books in the series (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Elisa#49519689) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:36 PM Author: Mahogany meetinghouse generalized bond 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: white multi-colored indian lodge dopamine > Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
lol |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:01 PM Author: translucent school cafeteria 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=2Elisa#49519770) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:38 PM Author: grizzly beta kitty cat brunch zorba the greek
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:49 PM Author: brindle heady range (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Elisa#49519736) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:53 PM Author: Plum Concupiscible Pocket Flask Locale 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: brindle heady range 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: Emerald stag film stain 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=2Elisa#49520815) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 10:12 PM Author: Plum Concupiscible Pocket Flask Locale (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Elisa#49521254) |
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Date: December 22nd, 2025 11:44 AM Author: beady-eyed citrine ratface 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=2Elisa#49530736) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:09 PM Author: Motley hall hunting ground 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: crawly center partner (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Elisa#49520756) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:40 PM Author: Sienna Underhanded University Starship Troopers Enders Game Johnny Tremain Childhoods End Rama
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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:16 AM Author: olive garrison therapy A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Elisa#49521578) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:11 AM Author: Slippery old irish cottage place of business Neon Bible better rec for younger kid (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Elisa#49521698) |
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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:23 AM Author: stirring base crotch abridged edgar allen poe short stories (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Elisa#49521706) |
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Date: December 26th, 2025 12:37 AM Author: Ebony coffee pot point https://kommandostore.com/products/republic-of-south-africa-unconventional-warfare-complete-book-set? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2Elisa#49540099) |