<p>lets make a masterlist of the Best of the best novels that will help in SAT. will be sooo helpful.</p>
<p>Add on to the list .. or delete with a reason why.</p>
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<li>Lord of the Flies</li>
<li>Grapes of Wrath </li>
<li>Frankenstein</li>
<li>Babbitt </li>
<li>Moby Dick</li>
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<p>Slaughter-House Five</p>
<p>I'm reading Le Petit Prince right now... it's absolutely amazing in French! The ideas that the author conveys really make you think about yourself and people in general. Definately read it in English if you don't know French</p>
<p>Adding on to that list:</p>
<ul>
<li>Lord of the Flies</li>
<li>Grapes of Wrath </li>
<li>Frankenstein</li>
<li>Babbitt </li>
<li>Moby Dick</li>
<li>Slaughter-House Five (needs to be confirmed by someone else)</li>
<li>Le Petit Prince (confirmed)</li>
</ul>
<p>My advice is to read books that are well-written, and that you will enjoy. It will do you no good to start ready Moby-Dick and get bogged down in it. Some suggestions:
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Sherlock Holmes stories
Dracula
Soldier in the Mist (Gene Wolf)
Goatsong (Tom Holt)
Anything by P.G. Wodehouse
Even stuff by Michael Crichton, like Jurassic Park, or the Tarzan books by Edgar Rice Burroughs, or military thrillers by Larry Bond, or mysteries by Agatha Christie
For non-fiction:
Gods, Graves and Scholars (C.W. Ceram)
Books by Thor Heyerdahl
Into Thin Air (John Krakauer sp?)--about climbers on Mount Everest--probably good for some SAT essay topics, too
Cookbooks by James Beard
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail</p>
<p>I have found that Lord of the Flies and Macbeth consistently work for almost all human nature questions. Any technology/status of the world question: White Noise<a href="not%20the%20movie">/B</a>.
Finally, knowing a historical time period inside and out is great. My best example is the **Roaring 20s/Great Depression; it works for almost EVERYTHING because it is political and economic, yet it has a MAJOR social impact. It also encompasses the spendthrift public, corrupt gov't, and efficient/humanitarian FDR. Basically, it may be applied to almost ANY situation.</p>
<p>paki786 , how many of the 101 books have you read thus far?</p>
<p>If you guys were to pick 1 of the above or ur own ..which one would it be and why?</p>
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<p>Ugh, I haaaated Macbeth. . . . <em>shudder</em></p>
<p>And I second Slaughter House Five!</p>
<p>Catch - 22, Joseph Heller. Aside from being filled with SAT words, it's just an overall amazing book.
I would read a few Sherlock Holmes books.
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway.
The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald.
Guns of August.</p>
<p>Read something that you think that you'll enjoy. You will get much more out of it than reading some classic that you end up hating. A rather surprising number of classics (Huck Finn and Grapes of Wrath come to mind instantly) have atrocious grammar anyway.</p>
<p>I'd have a hard time recommending any books to read without knowing what you like, but here's what I've been reading recently:
Ender's Game
The Sparrow
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire</p>
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I added Moby Dick to the end because i've heard it has a ton of vocab words, and is hard read.
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<p>The only thing especially hard about it that I've seen is that it has the amazing power to put you to sleep.</p>
<p>Don't forget Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
You should read Pride and Prejudice, it's so good...
I also like to read contemporary novels as well as old ones, I really liked the Book Thief (doesn't use a whole bunch of foriegn vocabulary, but it gives such a unique perspective on the Holocaust in Germany)
I also try to read newspapers, like New York Times and whatnot..They also help you practice, and you learn a little bit about what's going on in the world, which is clearly never a bad thing.</p>
<p>Aeneas, Ender's Game is the scific novel series right? Or am I confusing it with something else?</p>
<p>Hey, i forgot, what about Ishmael, it totally turned my mind around..</p>
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<p>A bit belatedly, but yes, it is.</p>