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Growing Up,Russell Baker
The Best American Short Stories of the Century,John
Updike, editor
Baby, It’s Cold Inside,S. J. Perelman
Pride and Prejudice,Jane Austen
Frankenstein,Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Atlas Shrugged,Ayn Rand
The Color Purple,Alice Walker
The Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Metamorphosis (and other stories),Franz Kafka
Crime and Punishment,Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,Frederick
Douglass
Animal Farm,George Orwell
Night,Elie Wiesel
Waiting for Godot,Samuel Beckett
Things Fall Apart,Chinua Achebe
Jane Eyre,Charlotte Brontë
The Stranger,Albert Camus
Go Tell It on the Mountain,James Baldwin
Robinson Crusoe,Daniel Defoe
Invisible Man,Ralph Ellison
Heart of Darkness,Joseph Conrad
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tom Jones, Henry FieldingArguments
Drift and Mastery, Walter Lippmann
The Best American Essays, Robert Atwan, editor
The Norton Reader,Linda H. Peterson, John C.
Brereton, and Joan E. Hartman, editors
Walden,Henry David Thoreau
Lanterns and Lances,James ThurberThe Chomsky Reader,Noam Chomsky
The World Is Flat,Thomas L. Friedman
Silent Spring,Rachel Carson
A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
Up from Slavery,Booker T. Washington
Speak, Memory,Vladimir Nabokov
The American Language,H. L. Mencken
Selected Essays, 1917–1932,T.S. Eliot
The Nature and Destiny of Man,Reinhold Niebuhr
Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin
Aspects of the Novel,E. M. Forster
Patriotic Gore,Edmund WilsonAnalyses
1776,David McCullough
A Brief History of Time,Stephen Hawking
QED,Richard Feynman
The Mismeasure of Man,Stephen J. Gould
The Lives of a Cell,Lewis Thomas
The Republic,Plato
Democracy in America,Alexis de Tocqueville
Civilization and its Discontents,Sigmund Freud
The Language Instinct,Steven Pinker
A People’s History of the United States,Howard Zinn
Freakonomics,Steven Leavitt and Stephen Dubner
How the Mind Works,Steven Pinker
Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
The Double Helix, James D. Watson
The Affluent Society,John Kenneth Galbraith
The Ants,Bert Hoelldobler and Edward O. Wilson
The Civil War,Shelby Foote
The Age of Jackson,Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Science and Civilization in China,Joseph Needham
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and
Money,John Maynard Keynes4 FAQS ABOUT THE SAT
How Much Studying Should I Do
for the SAT?
We expect our private SAT students to spend about
30 minutes every weeknight doing homework, as well
as 4 hours every Saturday morning taking a practice
test, for 8 to 10 weeks. This is a lot of work, but it pays
off very nicely, if it is done well. Even if you only have
a few hours per week to prepare, this book will help
you to get the most out of it. At the very least, try your
best to set aside 30 minutes at least four times per
week to do the work in your weekly “SAT Study Plan,”
and set aside 3.5 hours on the weekend to take a prac-
tice SAT.What Is “Score Choice” and How Do
I Use It?
Colleges that accept the SAT Score Choice option
allow you to submit certain SAT and SAT Subject
Test scores while withholding others. According to
the College Board, this option is “designed to reduce
student stress and improve the test-day experience.”
But keep in mind: not every college allows Score