SAT阅读备考书单列表

　　众所周知。阅读能力是SAT考察的重点，在此，我们向正在备考的同学推荐一些书籍，泛读这些经典书籍可以使你提升阅读能力，幸运的话，你读过的书籍内容也可能出现在考试素材中。多多阅读书籍将使你在在SAT考试中如虎添翼。

　　小编教育，一个月一本小说，1-2本杂志，是你最佳的阅读进度。

　　下面是进阶SAT高级阅读的一些参考书目。我们根据年级和文章主题的不同整理了这些书目，包括文学、科学和社会科学等。我们还把一些历史文献包含进去，主要针对SAT两大主题：美国建国文献和国际知名演讲。

　　阅读原版书籍，从你最感兴趣的书籍、杂志和报纸入手。确保熟悉美国建国文献和国际知名演讲，因为SAT很多阅读测试的篇章都来自这些领域。

　　Reading List：

　　LITERATURE

　　GRADE9/10

　　Louisa May Alcott,Little Women

　　Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

　　Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

　　Francis Bok, Escape from Slavery

　　Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit451

　　Charlotte Bront?, Jane Eyre

　　Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

　　Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

　　James F. Cooper, The Last ofthe Mohicans

　　Daniel Defoe,Robinson Crusoe

　　Charles Dickens,A Tale ofTwo Cities

　　David Copperfield

　　Great Expectations

　　Hard Times

　　Oliver Twist

　　Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

　　Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

　　George Eliot, Silas Marner

　　William Golding, Lord of the Flies

　　Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

　　Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

　　Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

　　Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo ’s Nest

　　Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

　　ohn Knowles, A Separate Peace

　　William Goldman, The Princess Bride

　　John H. Griffen, BlackLike Me

　　John Hersey, Hiroshima

　　S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

　　John Krakauer, Into the Wild

　　Into Thin Air

　　Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

　　Lois Lowry, The Giver

　　Yann Martell, The Life of Pi

　　Frank McCourt, Angela ’s Ashes

　　Arthur Miller, The Crucible

　　George Orwell, Animal Farm

　　1984

　　Reginald Rose, Twelve AngryMen

　　Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

　　J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

　　William Shakespeare,

　　Julius Caesar

　　The Merchant of Venice

　　Romeo and Juliet

　　The Taming of the Shrew

　　The TempestTwelfth Night

　　Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

　　Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

　　John Steinbeck, The Pearl

　　Bram Stoker, Dracula

　　J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

　　Mark Twain, The Prince andthe Pauper

　　Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

　　John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

　　Paul Zindel, The Pigman

　　GRADE 11/12

　　Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

　　Mark Bowden, Blackhawk Down

　　Emily Bront?, WutheringHeights

　　Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

　　Dante, Inferno

　　Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed

　　William Faulkner, As ILay Dying

　　The Sound and the Fury

　　F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

　　Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles

　　Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

　　Joseph Heller, Catch-22

　　Hendry James, The Portrait of a Lady

　　The Wings of the Dove

　　Sebastian Junger, A Perfect Storm

　　Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, Balm in Gilead

　　Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Nation

　　Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

　　Discourses on Livy

　　Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

　　One Hundred Years of Solitude

　　Herman Melville, Moby Dick

　　Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

　　Alan Paton, Cry, the BelovedCountry

　　Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

　　Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

　　Ayn Rand, Anthem

　　The Fountainhead

　　Erich M. Ramarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

　　Eric Schlosser, Fast FoodNation

　　William Shakespeare, Hamlet

　　KingLear

　　Macbeth

　　John Steinbeck, The Acts ofKingArthur andHis Noble Knights

　　The Grapes of Wrath

　　Of Mice and Men

　　Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

　　J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

　　Alice Walker, The Color Purple

　　Edith Wharton, The Age ofInnocence

　　T.H. White, The Once and Future King

　　Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

　　Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

　　Richard Wright, Black Boy

　　Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

　　To the Lighthouse

　　MAGAZINES

　　The New York Times Magazine

　　The New Yorker

　　SCIENCE

　　GRADE 9/10

　　Keith Devlin, Life by the Numbers

　　Dian Fossey, Gorillas in the Mist

　　Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life

　　The Mismeasure of Man

　　Joy Hakim, The Story of Science

　　Lawrence M. Krauss,A Universe from Nothing

　　Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies

　　Nicholas Nicastro, Circumference: Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to Measure the Globe

　　Matt Ridley, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

　　Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

　　Musicophilia

　　Carl Sagan, Cosmos

　　Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

　　Jearl Walker, The Flying Circus of Physics

　　GRADE 11/12

　　Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

　　Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

　　Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

　　James Gleick, Chaos: The Making of New Science

　　Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe

　　Stephen Hawking, A Brief History ofTime

　　The Universe in a Nutshell

　　Michio Kaku, Hyperspace

　　James Lovelock, Gaia

　　John Allen Paulos, Innumeracy: MathematicalIlliteracy and its Consequences Neil

　　DeGrasse Tyson, Gravity in Reverse

　　Edward O. Wilson, The Diversity of Life

　　MAGAZINES

　　National Geographic

　　New Scientist

　　Scientific American

　　SOCIAL SCIENCE

　　GRADE 9/10

　　Mark Abley, Spoken Here

　　Joan Dash, The Longitude Prize

　　Daniel L Everett, Don’t Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle

　　E.H. Gombrich, The Story of Art

　　Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow

　　Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations ofthe Americas Before Columbus

　　1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

　　James Q. Wilson, Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It

　　GRADE 11/12

　　Akhil Reed Amar, America ’s Constitution: A Biography

　　Julian Bell, Mirror of the World: A New History of Art

　　Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

　　Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

　　Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point

　　George Lakoff,Metaphors We Live By

　　David McCullough, 1776

　　James M. McPherson, What They Fought For, 1861-1865

　　Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined

　　The Blank State: The Modern Denial ofHuman Nature

　　Robert B. Putman, Bowling Alone

　　Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – But So

　　me Don ’t Timothy

　　D. Wilson, Strangers to Ourselves, Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious

　　Howard Zinn, A People ’s History of the UnitedStates

　　MAGAZINES

　　The Atlantic

　　The Economist

　　National Geographic

　　Time Magazine

　　FOUNDING DOCUMENTS

　　GRADE 9/10

　　The Bill of Rights

　　The Constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy

　　Constitution for the UnitedStates

　　Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

　　United States Declaration of Independence

　　GRADE 11/12

　　Anti-Federalist Papers

　　Jonathan Elliot, The Debates in the Several Conventions on the Adoption ofthe F

　　ederal Constitution

　　James Madison, Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787

　　James Madison, Alexander Hamilton & John Jay, The Federalis tPapers

　　GREAT GLOBAL CONVERSATIONS

　　GRADE 9/10

　　Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude

　　Mohandas Gandhi, HindSwaraj or Indian Home Rule

　　James Harrington, Oceana

　　Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address

　　Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail

　　Martin Luther King Jr. & Jesse Jackson, Why We Can ’t Wait

　　Suzanne McIntire (editor), American Heritage Book ofGreatAmerican Speechesfor Young People

　　John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

　　Considerations on Representative Government

　　Henry David Thoreau, Walden

　　Alex de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

　　Anna Quindlen, A Quilt of a Country

　　GRADE 11/12

　　Isaiah Berlin, Four Essays on Liberty

　　Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

　　Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

　　John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government

　　Montesquieu, The Spirit ofthe Laws

　　Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man

　　Common Sense

　　Quercus (editor), The Greatest American Speeches

　　Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men

　　The Social Contract

　　Willian Safire (editor), Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History

　　Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Woman ’s Bible

　　Gregory Suriano (editor), Great American Speeches

　　Woodrow Wilson, Congressional Government

　　Max Weber,Politics as a Vocation

　　Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication ofthe Rights of Women

　　Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

　　NEWSPAPERS

　　The New York Times

　　The Wall Street Journal