<p>I'm going on a small vacation soon and the plane ride is long. It's not a direct flight so it takes almost one day just to get there. </p>
<p>Can you guys enumerate a couple of critical reading score-boosting (vocabulary and comprehension) novels so i can select one maybe two to read.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if this is what you’re looking for, but I think Frankenstein would be a good choice. It is a short but important book that I loved when I read it. It has some strange vocab words that you’ll probably have to look up, but it is worth it.</p>
<p>i’m going to look up every single word and yes many people have suggested it. I’m looking for other ones but Frankenstein might be my choice.</p>
<p>Catch-22 - I’m serious</p>
<p>o_0. Just read something that interests you. All novels are going to have vocabulary that you don’t know, so it’s best that you read for yourself, not for the SAT; it’ll be quicker and you’ll learn quicker.</p>
<p>well ultimately, I am reading for myself. But why not raise my SAT score at the same time?</p>
<p>You may want to try a novel that is specifically designed to integrate SAT vocabulary into it, such as Tooth and Nail, which was published back in 1994. The reading level is only at the mid-high school level I would assume, unlike the passages that you will encounter on the test, but it does work to improve vocabulary.</p>
<p>well that’s the thing. It is late to read for me which is why I’m studying vocabulary from Direct Hits because I don’t have time to read. I need a book that will boost my comprehension, like a classic. I don’t want to read books like Sun Kissed which always stares at me when I go to Barnes and Noble.</p>
<p>Read the Economist. </p>
<p>It’s brilliant, and it’s full of pretty high level vocabulary and whatnot.</p>
<p>The recently published Einstein biography was great. Not a novel, of course, but your brain has to work overtime to take it all in.</p>
<p>That book I wrote that just got published.</p>
<p>^ What is it about?</p>
<p>The Convalescent by Jessica Anthony—its a great read, beautifully written, fantastically interesting with lots of SAT worthy vocab words to get that CR score up</p>
<p>but yes I agree, reading anything that interests you will help your CR score especially when you consider the passage reading which doesn’t directly test vocab:)</p>
<p>which particular parts in economist would be helpful?</p>
<p>“Series of Unfortunate Events” books are full of sophisticated vocabulary-- and more importantly, the author EXPLAINS many of the words and concepts. And they are entertaining.</p>
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<p>Wait, haha, was that a joke? I read the series in fourth grade.</p>
<p>One of those 1000 vocab novels published from sparknotes. There are several of them but I read Busted and Head over heels. Those help a lot with vocabs, but not necessarily the passages. What I did was, I would read one page, and then memorize all the words on that page, and did not proceed onto the next page until I re-read that page and could remember the bolded vocabs without looking at the definitions at the bottom. It REALLY helped for me to not forget the vocabs because if I remembered the story associated with that word, then I would eventually remember the definition of the word.</p>
<p>Great Expectations by Charles Dickens</p>
<p>he uses many words, some which you’d obviously think “that’ll never show up on the SAT” and some that you know could.</p>