<p>oh , Great Expectation -Charle Dickens ??? I dont know much about him . I have A tale of 2 cities written by him too but its a difficulty to follow. History fiction and a huge of new words >.</ Y
You can read some classical fiction like Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice , Emma , Jane Eyre ... ABout modern , i like Animal Farm, The Kite Runner ....</p>
<p>Don't read a book you'll find boring. If your mind is bored and the words are just floating through your head, you won't get anywhere. </p>
<p>I personally love Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. And the level of writing is superb. You might want to start out with "Good Omens", since that was written by both of them together. Douglas Adams is also quite good. </p>
<p>The books you've listed aren't really high level literature. As another poster has said, Harry Potter is for kids and The World is Flat is for the average person. But then again, something like Great Expectations and Wurthering Heights requires a certain fondness for old style writing for people to find enjoyable. And it is far more likely for you to get bored with them considering your history. (And to be frank, I have a particular hate for them.)</p>
<p>Take a look for people who've won literary rewards in the past 20 years, but in a genre you find enjoyable.</p>
<p>Background Information: This is from a guy that got 80 PSAT, 800 SAT, and 99percentile on the SSATs (forgot actual score) in CR. However, I didn't do well on these with prep, except for the SAT, and that was for reading comprehension. I'm not bragging, but I think it would be useful to know where I'm coming from, so you can take my recommendations with a grain of salt as I have no evidence whatsoever that it works, not even anecdotal.</p>
<p>While I never prepared for any vocab, I read a lot my whole life, but now in a competitive high school, I have significantly less time to read. Now, I subsist day to day on magazines like Time, Newsweek, etc. I've noticed some difficult vocabulary in these kinds of magazines, including some SAT and some GRE words. I also like these magazines because you learn stuff that you can use on your essay, you can take them around wherever you want, you can read them while eating and spill food on them, and the articles are rarely more than two pages long so you can stop and go.</p>
<p>lol please dont read "Green Eggs and Ham" like everyone is telling you to
it's a children's book and they're playing a cruel joke on you</p>
<p>For another list, you can check out 1000 SAT Words, which is fairly complete. Might help to eliminate the ones you already know, and then study up on the others...</p>
<p>Bacon is better than ham</p>
<p>The Bourne Series by Robert Ludlum, if you're into thrillers.</p>
<p>I scored in the 99th percentile for the CR. I'd recommend "The Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe" (by Poe, obviously) and Bleak House, by Charles Dickens.</p>
<p>Intense vocabulary! Best of luck!</p>
<p>i'll try some modern works as well. Thanks you guys :)</p>
<p>THX stueydue, *I know it's a kids book after i google it. lol.</p>
<p>Read David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest</p>
<p>I also recommend the Kaplan series.</p>
<p>Try Wuthering Heights, I believe it has 800+ SAT vocab words in it or so.</p>
<p>I've used that Keplan's 12 tests but it's way easier than the real test and contains quite a lot erros.
Wutherinh heights is very challenging for me, but at least I can figure out the rough plot. But as to Dickens' work, I'm totally confused!</p>
<p>I've used that Keplan's 12 tests but it's way easier than the real test and contains quite a lot erros.
Wutherinh heights is very challenging for me, but at least I can figure out the rough plot. But as to Dickens' work, I'm totally confused!</p>
<p>oh` , i read Wuthering heights too but i dont get much .I think i must reread^ ^</p>
<p>I gave up the tale of the 2 cities yesterday. The beginning's soooo confusing!</p>
<p>I just finished reading 'Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley</p>
<p>one of the best books ever, sooo deepp....</p>
<p>has tons of SAT-like vocab words</p>
<p>and its realllllyyyy good.</p>
<p>read great expectations. i just finished it for summer reading and i wasnt really excited about it at first, but its actually a pretty good book. </p>
<p>plus it really helps vocab too. words like trenchant, facetious, remonstrance, egress and plebeian.</p>
<p>Read Ayn Rand's books. They are great for SAT too.</p>
<p>^ I loved Great Expectations and Wuthering Heights, and a Tale of Two Cities...Once your past the first few chapters of aToTC it becomes really intense. But I do love the antithetical introduction :-)</p>
<p>green eggs in ham...wow look at this thread's sarcasm</p>