<p>Are there any GOOD Novels, that are made for students who want to learn words without doing that with a tedious long lists?</p>
<p>Well the SAT prep book company made some of these novels that are supposed to help you with vocab. I started reading them at barnes and noble and I didn't like them they sounded too fake.</p>
<p>Try the SAT version of Tooth and Nail or Frankenstein.
I think it is by Kaplan?</p>
<p>Catch-22's a great book, and it's full of good vocab words.</p>
<p>I read the sparknotes novel busted; it was slightly bad but I learned a lot of words from it. It was more effective than word lists I suppose.</p>
<p>catch-22 is great</p>
<p>I'm using this book right now and its kinda boring but it has a lot of vocab words in it. My advice with the books is reading it over and over again. Wizard of Oz has almost 2000 words, and repitition will help you learn them all (esp. since they're not in a list).</p>
<p>Isn't Catch 22 more a Real novel, then a SAT vocabulary builder novel</p>
<p>And what do you think its better wordsmart or Catch 22
And whats the difference between wordsmart 1 and 2</p>
<p>Yes, Catch-22's a "real" novel (which is what I originally thought you were asking for). So if you're looking for a book that's purely made for vocab building, don't buy it. That being said, it's an incredible read simply for its own value and can also help you with vocab if you read it closely enough. It's your call- it just depends on what you're looking for.</p>
<p>don't memorize vocab, read more (u'll do better on the reading copmrehension).</p>
<p>DONT WASTE TIME ON VOCABULARY.</p>
<p>READ BOOKS READ!!!!</p>
<p>Vocabulary is futile. (especially sinc ehtey eliminated analogies)</p>
<p>use some of that brain critical thinking for the sentence completions, you can eliminate most of the answer choices, because they don't make sense at all!!!</p>
<p>This is coming from someone with seniority and experience.</p>
<p>Probablility people, come on.</p>
<p>SAT novels are okay for the vocab, boring for the plot.</p>
<p>Reading real novels, especially classics, are a better option in the long run.</p>
<p>Most of time with the sentence completion, I dont even know what the words mean that I must choose from, so I thought that I must improve my vocubalry</p>
<p>no you're wrong. </p>
<p>read, you'll find that the sentences will sound odd with certain words (it just doesn't go with the flow sometimes)</p>
<p>READ THE BOOK CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES!
The protagonist is a pompous english major who lives at home and uses the most sophisticated language to great comedic effect. The book is one of the funniest books I have read and is a pulitzer prize winner of fiction.
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0807126063/qid=1107132444/sr=8-3/ref=pd_bbs_3/002-6054488-1854458?v=glance&s=books&n=507846%5B/url%5D">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0807126063/qid=1107132444/sr=8-3/ref=pd_bbs_3/002-6054488-1854458?v=glance&s=books&n=507846</a>
Includes words such as scrofulous enervated xanadu (not really vocab though).</p>
<p>Catch 22 is definitely a good pick. It is also very funny and witty.</p>
<p>Ultimately though, read books that are interesting to you as nearly all books will have good vocabulary as long as they are not popular trash like paris hilton's book or Rush Limbaugh.</p>
<p>Reading a book by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, or Edgar Allen Poe will help you more than anything. Certainly more than a book manufactured to include SAT words. If you don't know who Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, or Edgar Allen Poe are, then you're completely f***ed and might as well not waste your time.</p>
<p>I asked PR about good novels. </p>
<p>Contemporary Nonfiction (true stories)
1. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil---John Berendt
: Murder in Savannah. A quirky and compelling true story you won't be able to put down.
2. The Perfect Storm---Sabastian Junger
: A New England fishing boat is caught in what some consider the storm of the century.
3. Into Thin Air---Jon Krakauer
: A survivor's gripping and tragic true story about a failed 1996 Mount Everest expedition in which 12 climbers lost their lives.
4. Undaunted Courage---Stephen Ambrose
: This exciting, absorbing biography details Lewis and Clarke's journey across the dangerous West and the fame and tragedy that came of it. </p>
<p>Contemporary Fiction (novels)
1. Thank You for Smoking---Christopher Buckley
: A spokesman for the tobacco industry is covered in nicotine patches by anti-smoking activities. All of Buckley's books are funny and entertaining.
2. Microsefs---Douglas Coupland
: Written in journal format, this hilarious book follows a group of computer geeks working for Microsoft and trying to get a life.
3. A Man In Full---Tom Wolfe
: A large cast of colorful characters vie for power and social position in the Deep South.
4. The Best American Short Stories 1999---Amy Tan, editor
: The latest compilation of top-notch short fiction features 12 stories with little in common besides their beautiful, captivating writing.
5. Practical Demonkeeping---Christopher Moore
: A rebellious priest brings to life a centuries-old demon that eats drug dealers and other people.
6. The Bell Jar---Sylvia Plath
: The hypnotic story of a woman's descent into madness.
7. Cat's Cradle---Kurt Vonnegut
: A bizarre mix of satire, fantasy and realism dealking with atomic scientis and the end of the world.
8. Beloved---Toni Morrison
: The powerful Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a runaway slavem her murdered daughter and an angry ghost.
9. The Joy Luck Club---Amy Tan
: The moving stories of four Chinese mothers and their Americanized daughters.
10. A prayer for Owen Meany---John Irving
: All of Irving's books are wonderful. This one inspired the movie Simon Birch.
11. The Chosen---Chaim Potokln
: In 1940s Brooklyn, NY, two boys reconcile their cultural differences and grow to be friends.
12. The House of the Spirits---Isabelle Allende
: A novel about a Chilean family caught on both sides of a political revolution.
13. The Handmaid's Tale---Margaret Atwood
: The America of the future has polluted itself into near extinction, and fertile young women are enslaved by an aristocracy or religious fanatics.
14. Time and Again---Jack Finney
: An artist travels back in time to nineteenth-century New York City in this captivating story, which includes actual vintage photographs.
15. Their Eyes Were Watching God---Zora Neale Hurston
: An engrossing story about an African-American community in the early twentieth century.
16. Jitterbug Perfume---Tom Robbins
: Follows the adventures of an immortal king through thousands of years of human history.
17. The Hunt for Red Octorber---Tom Clancy
: Like most of Clancy's bestsellers, a suspensefuyl tale of military starategy and espionage. </p>
<p>I wish it helps you.</p>
<p>Nice. Thank you :)</p>