<p>hey guys!.. well I am just looking for some books to read.. I am gonna take the SAT for the 2nd time on january and I need to improve my CR.. please I will really appreciate if u guys could give some books titles...any suggestions?</p>
<p>If you have a SparkNotes account, I seem to remember them having a list of recommendations for books that use a lot of the vocab that's often seen on the SAT.</p>
<p>Can someone post the above mentioned list here??</p>
<p>Alternatively, you could spend your time reading books that actually look enjoyable and worthwhile, rather than just the books that were on some list you got somewhere.</p>
<p>Kafka is good.</p>
<p>well it can be hard to find a good book. there are so many out there its hard to know where to start.</p>
<p>Are there other any suggestions? I can't read Kafka in English, because I also have German class.</p>
<p>Ayn Rand!</p>
<p>Actually I recommend that to everyone, mainly because I love her style and find her ideas interesting. She has a nice set of vocabulary.</p>
<p>Then there's Communist Manifesto.</p>
<p>Hm, and Tolkien helped vocabulary as well. Of course, that might just be because I've read a lot of the classics.</p>
<p>i got a 78/80 on my psat in writing as a sophomore...and I've only read the classics in school...I'd say to read EVERYTHING. whatever people say about "fluffy" reading-even gossip girl is good, if you get the hang of sentence structure, and if it leads to reading more books in general! just read, read, read. Don't be discouraged if it doesn't come as easily, as say a math score...think of it as a musical instrument you must fine-tune.</p>
<p>crime and punishment</p>
<p>count of monte cristo</p>
<p>any dickens novel.</p>
<p>The Apes of God
Either/Or</p>
<p>My God Taggart, she writes like it's the bloody bible (heck! so does Nietzsche).</p>
<p>EDIT: 2 things backfire--(1) Make sure that you've read the Garnett translations of Dostoevski because Magarshack just isn't cut out for it, though he does a mean Gogol. (2) DON'T EVER RECCOMEND DICKENS! The foulness! The foulness!</p>
<p>". (2) DON'T EVER RECCOMEND DICKENS! The foulness! The foulness!"</p>
<p>i fail to see the foulness</p>
<p>Naa. She writes more clearly. Love the style -- so clean and austere.</p>
<p>Bible's filled with too much awkward wording, and I'm not just saying that because I'm an atheist.</p>
<p>Frankenstein...</p>