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Jan 6, 2025
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Hank Rearden
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You’re in good company, but I still much preferred Grapes of Wrath.
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If you made a list of top ten books you'd want your high school boy to read
Goliath
Jan 5, 9:54pm
Sapiens
NYCougz
Jan 5, 9:58pm
Honestly don’t understand why this book gets the love it does …
grosven
Jan 5, 10:27pm
You are certainly entitled to you opinion.
NYCougz
Jan 5, 10:36pm
East of Eden.
NYCougz
Jan 5, 10:37pm
That is the correct answer. Sapiens??? Really?
toadie
Jan 6, 8:06am
Nah, for young people I’d stick with Of Mice and Men. Don’t throw long books at youth unless your goal is for them to
Hank Rearden
Jan 6, 8:58am
Sapiens is a great read. East of Eden is the best Steinbeck book I have read.
NYCougz
Jan 6, 12:58pm
You’re in good company, but I still much preferred Grapes of Wrath.
Hank Rearden
Jan 6, 9:03pm
Agree on the ones you suggested
NYCougz
Jan 5, 9:59pm
The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne
Nikomedes
Jan 5, 9:59pm
Are the sequels good after the author changed?
wannnacruise
Jan 5, 10:02pm
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Joe Banks
Jan 5, 10:03pm
How to win friends and influence people.
Captain Rex
Jan 5, 10:04pm
To Kill a Mockingbird, The Adventures of Huck Finn, Of Mice and Men.
Hank Rearden
Jan 5, 10:06pm
No Atlas Shrugged??? Disappointed Hank
Johnny Vatos
Jan 5, 10:14pm
Haha, I read it at 30 with a Masters Degree and was still probably too young to fully appreciate. But I was also young
Hank Rearden
Jan 6, 7:30am
Do the Work, Essentialism
Zedhead
Jan 5, 10:07pm
Not sure how you get a high school kid to read 10 non fiction books. I’d go with fiction classics.
Joe Banks
Jan 5, 10:07pm
I only read non-fiction in high school and after
2FarGone
Jan 5, 10:09pm
Underground Railroad
Tare
Jan 5, 10:10pm
Either Goggins book
ordinary tri guy
Jan 5, 10:10pm
Jesus the Christ, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Screwtape Letters, 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, A Man Called Ove,
byujacob
Jan 5, 10:11pm
How to win friends and influence people
Idacoug
Jan 5, 10:14pm
The Long Walk, Ender's Game
Turd Ferguson
Jan 5, 10:16pm
Not sure. TNT never learned how to read
TNT
Jan 5, 10:16pm
“How will you measure your life” by Clayton Christensen
UVCoug
Jan 5, 10:20pm
I second this suggestion. Easy read and so important. Great book!
dfudge
Jan 5, 10:38pm
Nothing to add, but from your list 100% The Screw tape Letters over the others
vagabonder
Jan 5, 10:21pm
My list for my 13 yo.
Honkietrizzle
Jan 5, 10:26pm
Some of mine…
supersteve
Jan 5, 10:28pm
You read my mind in a couple
cajuncoug
Jan 5, 10:35pm
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Plantagenet
Jan 5, 10:36pm
I read this, my favorite quote was “the bell rings and I must go among the grave
BaseCoug
Jan 6, 12:47am
Goosebumps needs to be on there
maxpowers
Jan 5, 10:38pm
12 rules for life by Jordan Peterson is good.
dfudge
Jan 5, 10:40pm
Crime and punishment
NYCougz
Jan 5, 10:41pm
Another good choice!
dfudge
Jan 5, 11:01pm
One of the few books I have read multiple times.
NYCougz
Jan 5, 11:03pm
Book of Mormon
KYU
Jan 5, 10:43pm
Why Buddhism is true.
NYCougz
Jan 5, 10:46pm
A Short History of Nearly Everything; Guns, Germs, and Steel; One Hundred Years
Japan Coug
Jan 5, 10:52pm
Honorable Mention: East of Eden; Sapiens; Don Quixote; The Divine Comedy; 1491;
Japan Coug
Jan 5, 11:27pm
Falconer by Cheever, Fair Game by Benes & Tropic of Cancer (possibly Capricorn)
Emmett Fitz-Hume
Jan 5, 11:36pm
How will you measure your life — Clayton Christensen
MotorCityCoug
Jan 6, 3:23am
Atomic Habits
greatbam
Jan 6, 3:37am
A tale of two cities
44C
Jan 6, 6:57am
The Anatomy of Peace
GFCougar
Jan 6, 8:52am
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