<p>reading books doesn't help improve your cr score.</p>
<p>I read scarlet letter and all that stuff, and my score only improved through practicetests</p>
<p>reading and taking practice tests is for losers. real men cheat.</p>
<p>Any collection of William F. Buckley, Jr., essays will send your vocabulary through the roof. It will also improve your chances in the National Spelling Bee.</p>
<p>gee...thanks</p>
<p>The Scarlet Letter
Jane Eyre</p>
<p>"The Best American Essays of the Century" edited by Joyce Carol Oates.
that's its proper name. :D</p>
<p>how about "The Best American Essays" 2007 David Foster Wallace</p>
<p>**Newspaper
Magazines-time,Scientific America-some articles are useless so it can help for dumb cr passages</p>
<p>The Great American Essays-Oates i think(good essays grammar and stuff writing section helper
Consider the Lobster-Wallace(funny understand tone I think)
Walden-Thoreau- INTELLECTUAL(boring helps with boring passages)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte-VOCAB
How Doctors think- Groopman-vocab, good read for future docs
Goosebumps by R.L Stein.- if u like reading?
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov- bordom training and vocab
On the Road by Jack Kerouac -vocab, sound boring, dealing with stupid passages**
and thanks to all the suggestions this will help out a bunch of people</p>
<p>oh I think reading would help, I mean it certainly wont deimprove your score, it can only help your reading skills and interpretations</p>
<p>I love this! I would also add those Kaplan books that highlight and define "SAT vocab words" in great classics. I've checked out the following, but haven't read it. </p>
<p>Amazon.com:</a> The War of the Worlds: A Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic: H.G. Wells: Books</p>
<p>awsome any other suggestions</p>
<p>ive read like 2 of the above books, gonna start 3rd one</p>
<p>Whoever called Walden and Lolita boring can go get a 500 because those are two of my favorite books.</p>
<p>I am planning on reading Tooth and Nail, it is one of those SAT vocab novels.</p>
<p>IMO, I read a LOT, and pure reading doesn't help with the SAT unless you don't know vocab. I did bad on the CR section and I read 74 books last year (yes, I keep track, I work in a library, there is nothing else to do so most of the times I read one book a shift). For me, I know most of the vocab, so it's more about finding the patterns in the questions and analyzing the passage the way the SAT makers see fit.</p>
<p>Holy crap, I just looked back and saw that On the Road was classified as boring too. AHHHHHHHHH.</p>
<p>I know CB has a giant list of books that they recommend SAT-test takers read. I'm not exactly sure where it is on their site (a friend gave the list), but i'm sure it is on there.</p>
<p>Every book I am about to list has been used in the SAT:</p>
<p>Moby Dick
The Scarlet Letter
I Know why the Caged Bird Sings
Narrative of the Life of an American Slave
Sons and Lovers
Lord of the Flies
Babylon Revisited
The Sun Also Rises
A farwell to Arms</p>
<p>On top of that, read magazines like The Economist, The New Yorker, Scientific American, Newsweek, Time Magazine and National Geographic.</p>
<p>Read whatever you can get your hands, however, I would not suggest Captain Underpants, as others have.</p>
<p>If you are a girl Pride and Prejudice is pretty good.</p>
<p>Here's the link to the College Board reading list:</p>
<p>The Plot Against America by Philip Roth</p>
<p>awesome, i hope this reading list helps people do something other than lay around, and help people with reading different types of novels, thanks dudes</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>the plot against america sounds like a awesome book!</p>
<p>you actually like the Sun Also Rises?</p>
<p>i barely see any SAT vocab in that book.</p>