<p>please suggest a good, short novel that i should read in my spare time to help with CR on SAT. Since i only have one month left, please stay away from the super long ones like War and Peace</p>
<p>pride and prejudice
sense and sensibility
..both novels are by jane austen</p>
<p>Great Expectations and the Scarlet Letter worked very well for me. Helped me improve my vocabulary TREMENDOUSLY, especially Great Expectations. :)</p>
<p>Brave New World?
Poe Poems.</p>
<p>Jane Austen's novels are seemingly a little boring to me. I recommend Wuthering Height, Scarlet letter, Cranford, Jane Eyre</p>
<p>Which person reads novels just to prepare for SAT? You must be living in an impoverished village with enough money only to buy one book. Poor you.</p>
<p>EDIT: Constructive post: I like Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. It's a short tome about eugenics. It provides good fodder for SAT essay.</p>
<p>The Scarlet Letter wins. or anything by EA Poe. They were contemporaries of each other and had verrrry similar writing styles. If you can wade through their vocab and syntax, you more than prepared for CR></p>
<p>how about the Life of Pi, if Jane Austen books are boring there are many books out there that are good for prepping up for the SAT</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>Yes, the point is to read something with rather dense prose and try to comprehend it. Reading something that MIGHT be challenging for a 5th grader is not going to help your reading comprehension skills or vocabulary.</p>
<p>Forget novels. You should read the Op/Ed pages in the New York Times every day and discuss them with friends or family.</p>
<p>Yes! i have to read the scarlet letter for AP english so maybe thatll help</p>
<p>Just read articles from economist and fictions from The New Yorker.</p>
<p>Great Gatsby and 1984.</p>
<p>Times Magazine and NYTimes</p>
<p>^ uhhh i'm assuming you meant "Time" magazine, as opposed to "Times."</p>
<p>Obviously you don't read either too often :)</p>
<p>The Time Machine by H.G. Wells.</p>
<p>If you've ever opened a Sunday edition of the New York Times or been to nytimes.com you'd know there is such a thing as the Times magazine.</p>
<p>Tolstoy's Anna Karenina/War and Peace
Flaubert's Madame Bovary
Dicken's Great Expectations
Bronte's Wuthering Heights</p>
<p>Virginia Woolf uses a very unique style of writing that's bound to challenge anyone's comprehension skills</p>
<p>and if you can understand Ulysses, you can understand anything =P
or even House of Leaves...</p>