<p>Dante’s Inferno - Dante Alighieri</p>
<p>Discover your punishment according to Dante Alighieri in this virtual tour of Hell, before your time comes! An epic allegory about poetic justice. </p>
<p>The Road - Cormac McCarthy</p>
<p>A story of post apocalyptic Earth, where a father and son journey to the coast in an attempt to escape the horrors of starvation, cannibalism, and an unpleasant, excruciating death.</p>
<p>love thomas pynchon</p>
<p>i know sparknotes has those fiction stories that incorporate as many SAT words as they can- its mainly about high school romances and stuff but its good review i guess</p>
<p>Atonement by Ian McEwan
I really can’t tell you too much about the plot without giving it away, but I can confidently assure you that it will blow your mind.</p>
<p>Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
If you haven’t read this yet, you should. One of the best opening lines in literature.</p>
<p>Dubliners by James Joyce
Good short story collection. Less confusing than his other works. I liked it.</p>
<p>The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Excellent combination of humor and sci-fi. Bring your towel.</p>
<p>Also, if you have access to The New Yorker, that is a good magazine to read.</p>
<p>you know you COULD read “The Alphabet of Manliness” by maddox ([Amazon.com:</a> The Alphabet Of Manliness: Maddox, Angelo Vildasol, Bryan Douglas: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Alphabet-Manliness-Maddox/dp/080652720X]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Alphabet-Manliness-Maddox/dp/080652720X))
guys can hide it from their parents and girls and parents can throw it into the furnace</p>
<p>if you’re a female i recommend “The Bunny Book” by various ‘authors’ ([Amazon.com:</a> The Bunny Book: How to Walk, Talk, Tease, and Please Like a Playboy Bunny: Deanna Brooks, Pennelope Jimenez, Serria Tawan, Annabelle Jasmin Verhoye: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Bunny-Book-Tease-Please-Playboy/dp/0811854027]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Bunny-Book-Tease-Please-Playboy/dp/0811854027))
girls can hide it from their parents, guys can laugh at it and parents can chuck it into the mouth of a fire breathing dragon</p>
<p>Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
amazing book on multiple personalities</p>
<p>Wow. People here read pretty intense books. I would say maybe 5 people at my school have read any of these (except the ones assigned in english). Haha. I second Harry Potter.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, I forget to add:</p>
<p>The Sherlock Holmes Series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.</p>
<p>Pretty much one of the ONLY few stuff I read for non-required reading outside of school, it’s fairly interesting.</p>
<p>Any good books that are good references on SAt essays???</p>
<p>Crazyazn112, the SAT Writing is absolute and utter BS.</p>
<p>However, good books to read for the AP English Literature would be *The Great Gatsby<a href=“F.%20Scott%20Fitzgerald”>/I</a>, *Ethan Frome<a href=“Edith%20Wharton”>/I</a>, *The Grapes of Wrath<a href=“John%20Steinbeck”>/I</a>, *Othello<a href=“Shakespeare”>/I</a>.</p>
<p>I second the two short story collections that have already been mentioned:
Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Interpreter of Maladies
James Joyce’s Dubliners</p>
<p>And I would like to add
Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio</p>
<p>For those of you who are interested, the best translations of Dante’s Inferno are those of Durling and Martinez, and perhaps Sinclair. Avoid Pinsky’s like grim death.</p>
<p>Another good SAT essay reference is 1984.</p>
<p>John Ciardi’s translation of Dante’s Inferno is also very good, in my opinion.</p>
<p>Maybe try The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton - one of my favorites!</p>
<p>how about Life of Pi and Crime and Punishment? i havent read those but i was reading quite a bit about it on this forum.</p>
<p>I remember reading Dante’s Inferno a few years back thinking it was going to be this giant masterpiece of literature. Turns out it’s just an emo poem written by this dude that was really bitter about getting kicked out of his town, so he came up with all of these random punishments for the people he didn’t like.</p>
<p>The Street Lawyler by John Grisham, not sure if it will help w/ the SATs but it was a good read</p>
<p>One of my favorite books of all times:
Bag of Bones- Stephen King</p>
<p>Terry Pratchett’s discoworld series</p>
<p>The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (my all time favorite book)
Good SAT Books:
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald</p>
<p>itsn’t lovely bones about rape? uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.</p>
<p>Anna Karenina - Found it for $5 and decided to buy it. It has been an excellent book so far, but it is rather long (Not as long as some of the other ones mentioned though). (I’m only about 100 pages in)</p>
<p>Life of Pi - Was required summer reading, but I have to say that it was another excellent book. Even if it wasn’t required, I would still have read it.</p>
<p>Tuesdays with Morrie…</p>