Fiction books for SAT preparation?
September 1st, 2009 | 
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Hi and welcome to my blog,
I opened this blog to help anyone who is preparing for his SAT.
I remember myself when I started - I was so lost and in such a panic.
Luckily I got this great SAT guide that helped me a lot . So study hard and good luck!
I’m taking the SAT in March and the one in June, and my English teacher told me the best way to prepare for it was to read read read. So I’m asking you guys which books are good for SAT preparation.
I took the PSAT a few months ago and my score was average, but my weakest area was the reading. So I would really appreciate if you could recommend me some good fiction books that help build vocabulary and the like. (btw, my teacher said classics are the best, but WHICH classics is the question here)
Thank you in advance. 
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so so so so many good ones!
my favorites ones are
-Robinson Crusoe-A
-The Scarlett Letter-C
-1984-A
-Animal Farm-A
-Great Expectations (& other charles dicken’s books)-C
-Wuthering Heights-C
-Great Gatsby-A
-To Kill a Mockingbird-E
-The Old Man and the Sea-E
-Of Mice and Men-E
-Street Car named Desire-E
and many many more…
A-Average
C-Challenging
E-Easy
keep in mind that these are all high school to college level books and easy doesn’t mean like really easy and challenging is pretty darn hard.
good luck!
try the troll series. (troll fell, troll mill, and troll blood)
awesome books
If you haven’t read it yet, The Great Gatsby is a really great book.
Pride and Prejudice! It is so good. I hope you haven’t read it yet so you enjoy its wonderfulness.
The Bible
I mean, c’mon, even I know that bull isn’t my word– it’s all lame fairy tales. Oh, and Dostoyevsky. He’s the man.
The Odyssey is really good for reading comprehension especially if you sit down and really think about what it means.
Shakespeare is also good for reading comprehension. I’d suggest reading The Odyssey before this, though.
I would also suggest trying some basic Latin stuff. This helps with the roots of words.
Good luck!
I haven’t taken the SAT or even the PSAT, because I’m too young, but here are some of my favorite classics, listed from best to worst (in my opinion).
FAVORITE
Jane Eyre (challenging, long)
Persuasion (easy, short)
Anne of Green Gables (very easy, medium length)
Wuthering Heights (medium difficulty, medium length)
Fahrenheit 451 (easy, short)
Sense and Sensibility (medium difficulty, long)
Pride and Prejudice (medium difficulty, medium length)
The Scarlet Letter (medium difficulty, short)
Romeo and Juliet (easy, short)
Northanger Abbey (easy, short)
Animal Farm (very easy, very short)
Emma (medium difficulty, long)
LEAST FAVORITE
Any classic
If you want to build your vocabulary, I would suggest books by George Orwell, Jane Austen, Shakespeare, J. R. R. Tolkien, even J. K. Rowling (surprising as it is, her books incorporate a lot of Latin-based words, which is where a lot of SAT vocab comes from), and so on.
Really, though, just find an author that’s a little bit above your reading level with a topic that interests you and read their books. Being interested in the storyline makes it easier to infer the meaning of some words, and, at least for me, made me want to find out what they meant if I didn’t understand stuff. =) (I don’t think that last sentence made any sense at all, but oh well.)
Good luck on your SAT!
Wuthering Heights-Jane Eyre
The Catcher in The Rye
The Great Gatsby
Of Human Bondage-Somerset Maugham
Moby Dick-Herman Melville
The Scarlet Letter
The Short Stories of Flannery O’Connor
The Crucible ( play )-Arthur Miller
The Grapes of Wrath and/or East of Eden-John Steinbeck
Books that would be late high school or college-oriented that could help out your vocabulary are numerous. Some of my favorites that can really help include:
The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde (One of my favorites)
The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner (This is my FAVORITE book of all time)
Abasalom, Abasalom!, by William Faulkner
The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy
Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque
1984, by George Orwell
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes
The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck
And many more!
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