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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM Author: nighttime obsidian double fault 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: blue wagecucks toilet seat 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: sienna hilarious codepig personal credit line https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712?
Reasonable price, free shipping. |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:21 PM Author: electric violent brunch juggernaut (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: Ebony massive mexican "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: Ebony massive mexican 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: Jet Legend 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: house-broken partner halford 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: Ebony massive mexican 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: Irate slate hall 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: topaz orchestra pit community account 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: Domesticated beta alpha wrinkle 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: nighttime obsidian double fault 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: Domesticated beta alpha wrinkle 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: nighttime obsidian double fault 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: Domesticated beta alpha wrinkle 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: useless tanning salon gay wizard The eyes and the impossible
sourdough
heart of samurai
artemis
rocket boys |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:13 PM Author: Slippery newt 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: useless tanning salon gay wizard 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: Slippery newt (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: Irate slate hall 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: razzmatazz people who are hurt 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: nighttime obsidian double fault 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: Self-centered iridescent kitty skinny woman 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: nighttime obsidian double fault 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: Onyx misunderstood pervert gunner 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: bossy coldplay fan 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: coiffed public bath dysfunction 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: useless tanning salon gay wizard those are for reading out loud , clown
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM Author: racy buff sneaky criminal 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: brass passionate scourge upon the earth electric furnace 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: Yapping meetinghouse 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: brass passionate scourge upon the earth electric furnace 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: Yapping meetinghouse 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: up-to-no-good well-lubricated internal respiration 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: Slippery newt 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: brass passionate scourge upon the earth electric furnace 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: Hyperventilating laughsome address twinkling uncleanness James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard originals though) |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:39 PM Author: house-broken partner halford 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: Hyperventilating laughsome address twinkling uncleanness 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: house-broken partner halford 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: Hyperventilating laughsome address twinkling uncleanness 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: house-broken partner halford 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: Slippery newt 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: gaped curious preventive strike 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: Yapping meetinghouse (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: amethyst station prole 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: Yapping meetinghouse 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: cobalt bbw genital piercing 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: cream dashing ladyboy 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: Cocky wonderful step-uncle's house 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: Yapping meetinghouse > Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
lol |
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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:01 PM Author: nighttime obsidian double fault 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: Slippery newt zorba the greek
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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:49 PM Author: brass passionate scourge upon the earth electric furnace (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: razzmatazz people who are hurt 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: brass passionate scourge upon the earth electric furnace 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: charcoal affirmative action party of the first part 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: razzmatazz people who are hurt (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: up-to-no-good well-lubricated internal respiration 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: Histrionic philosopher-king 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: odious nubile piazza (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: milky heady temple Starship Troopers Enders Game Johnny Tremain Childhoods End Rama
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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:16 AM Author: Ebony massive mexican 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: gaped curious preventive strike 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: claret cheese-eating faggotry state 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: Chocolate School Cafeteria 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) |