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READING LISTPART 1Below is a set of reading lists to help you prepare for the advanced reading material on theSAT. We have arranged these lists by grade level and subject, including literature, science,and social science. We’ve also included historical documents from two subject areasincluded on the SAT: the Founding Documents and the Great Global Conversation.Look over the list and start with the books, magazines, and newspapers that most interestyou. Make sure you are also familiar with documents from the Founding Documents andthe Great Global Conversation, as many passages from the Reading Test will be taken fromthese areas. In addition to working through these lists, you can also build your reading skillsby reading the first page of periodicals like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journalon a daily basis.The more you can make reading an enjoyable part of your daily life, the more comfortableyou will feel with the passages that you will see on the SAT.LITERATUREGRADE 9/10Louisa May Alcott, Little WomenMaya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsPiers Anthony, Split InfinityJane Austen, Pride and PrejudiceFrancis Bok, Escape from SlaveryRay Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451Charlotte Brontë, Jane EyreAnthony Burgess, A Clockwork OrangePaulo Coelho, The AlchemistJames F. Cooper, The Last of the MohicansDaniel Defoe, Robinson CrusoeIvy GlobalREADING219
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two CitiesDavid CopperfieldGreat ExpectationsHard TimesOliver TwistArthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesAlexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte CristoGeorge Eliot, Silas MarnerWilliam Golding, Lord of the FliesHermann Hesse, SiddharthaVictor Hugo, Les MiserablesAldous Huxley, Brave New WorldKen Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestSue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of BeesJohn Knowles, A Separate PeaceWilliam Goldman, The Princess BrideJohn H. Griffen, Black Like MeJohn Hersey, HiroshimaS.E. Hinton, The OutsidersJohn Krakauer, Into the WildInto Thin AirHarper Lee, To Kill a MockingbirdLois Lowry, The GiverYann Martell, The Life of PiFrank McCourt, Angela’s AshesArthur Miller, The CrucibleGeorge Orwell, Animal Farm1984Reginald Rose, Twelve Angry MenEdmond Rostand, Cyrano de BergeracJ.D. Salinger, Catcher in the RyeIvy GlobalREADING220
William Shakespeare, Julius CaesarThe Merchant of VeniceRomeo and JulietThe Taming of the ShrewThe TempestTwelfth NightMary Shelley, FrankensteinBetty Smith, A Tree Grows in BrooklynJohn Steinbeck, The PearlBram Stoker, DraculaJ.R.R. Tolkien, The HobbitMark Twain, The Prince and the PauperJules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the SeaJohn Wyndham, The ChrysalidsPaul Zindel, The PigmanGRADE 11/12Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s TaleMark Bowden, Blackhawk DownEmily Brontë, Wuthering HeightsJoseph Conrad, Heart of DarknessDante, InfernoBarbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and DimedWilliam Faulkner, As I Lay DyingThe Sound and the FuryF. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great GatsbyThomas Hardy, Tess of the d’UrbervillesErnest Hemingway, The Sun Also RisesJoseph Heller, Catch-22Hendry James, The Portrait of a LadyThe Wings of the DoveSebastian Junger, A Perfect StormSara Lawrence Lightfoot, Balm in GileadKen Kesey, Sometimes a Great NationIvy GlobalREADING221
Niccolo Machiavelli, The PrinceDiscourses on LivyGabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of CholeraOne Hundred Years of SolitudeHerman Melville, Moby DickToni Morrison, The Bluest EyeAlan Paton, Cry, the Beloved CountryRobert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle MaintenanceSylvia Plath, The Bell JarAyn Rand, AnthemThe FountainheadErich M. Ramarque, All Quiet on the Western FrontEric Schlosser, Fast Food NationWilliam Shakespeare, HamletKing LearMacbethJohn Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble KnightsThe Grapes of WrathOf Mice and MenAmy Tan, The Joy Luck ClubJ.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the RingAlice Walker, The Color PurpleEdith Wharton, The Age of InnocenceT.H. White, The Once and Future KingOscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian GrayEvelyn Waugh, Brideshead RevisitedRichard Wright, Black BoyVirginia Woolf, Mrs. DallowayTo the LighthouseMAGAZINESThe New York Times MagazineThe New YorkerIvy GlobalREADING222
SCIENCEGRADE 9/10Keith Devlin, Life by the NumbersDian Fossey, Gorillas in the MistStephen Jay Gould, Wonderful LifeThe Mismeasure of ManJoy Hakim, The Story of ScienceLawrence M. Krauss, A Universe from NothingSiddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All MaladiesNicholas Nicastro, Circumference: Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to Measure theGlobeMatt Ridley, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 ChaptersOliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical TalesMusicophiliaCarl Sagan, CosmosRebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksJearl Walker, The Flying Circus of PhysicsGRADE 11/12Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly EverythingCharles Darwin, The Origin of SpeciesRichard Dawkins, The Selfish GeneJames Gleick, Chaos: The Making of New ScienceBrian Greene, The Elegant UniverseStephen Hawking, A Brief History of TimeThe Universe in a NutshellMichio Kaku, HyperspaceJames Lovelock, GaiaJohn Allen Paulos, Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its ConsequencesNeil DeGrasse Tyson, Gravity in ReverseEdward O. Wilson, The Diversity of LifeIvy GlobalREADING223
MAGAZINESNational GeographicNew ScientistScientific AmericanSOCIAL SCIENCEGRADE 9/10Mark Abley, Spoken HereJoan Dash, The Longitude PrizeDaniel L Everett, Don’t Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the AmazonianJungleE.H. Gombrich, The Story of ArtDaniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and SlowCharles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus CreatedJames Q. Wilson, Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do ItGRADE 11/12Akhil Reed Amar, America’s Constitution: A BiographyJulian Bell, Mirror of the World: A New History of ArtJared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or SucceedGuns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesMalcolm Gladwell, The Tipping PointGeorge Lakoff, Metaphors We Live ByDavid McCullough, 1776James M. McPherson, What They Fought For, 1861-1865Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has DeclinedThe Blank State: The Modern Denial of Human NatureRobert B. Putman, Bowling AloneNate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don’tTimothy D. Wilson, Strangers to Ourselves, Discovering the Adaptive UnconsciousHoward Zinn, A People’s History of the United StatesIvy GlobalREADING224
MAGAZINESThe AtlanticThe EconomistNational GeographicTime MagazineFOUNDING DOCUMENTSGRADE 9/10The Bill of RightsThe Constitution of the Iroquois ConfederacyConstitution for the United StatesDeclaration of the Rights of Man and the CitizenUnited States Declaration of IndependenceGRADE 11/12Anti-Federalist PapersJonathan Elliot, The Debates in the Several Conventions on the Adoption of the FederalConstitutionJames Madison, Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787James Madison, Alexander Hamilton & John Jay, The Federalist PapersGREAT GLOBAL CONVERSATIONSGRADE 9/10Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and SolitudeMohandas Gandhi, Hind Swaraj or Indian Home RuleJames Harrington, OceanaAbraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg AddressMartin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham JailMartin Luther King Jr. & Jesse Jackson, Why We Can’t WaitSuzanne McIntire (editor), American Heritage Book of Great American Speeches for YoungPeopleIvy GlobalREADING225
John Stuart Mill, On LibertyConsiderations on Representative GovernmentHenry David Thoreau, WaldenAlex de Tocqueville, Democracy in AmericaAnna Quindlen, A Quilt of a CountryGRADE 11/12Isaiah Berlin, Four Essays on LibertyEdmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in FranceThomas Hobbes, LeviathanJohn Locke, Second Treatise of Civil GovernmentMontesquieu, The Spirit of the LawsThomas Paine, The Rights of ManCommon SenseQuercus (editor), The Greatest American SpeechesJean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among MenThe Social ContractWillian Safire (editor), Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in HistoryElizabeth Cady Stanton, The Woman’s BibleGregory Suriano (editor), Great American SpeechesWoodrow Wilson, Congressional GovernmentMax Weber, Politics as a VocationMary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of WomenMalcolm X, By Any Means NecessaryNEWSPAPERSThe New York TimesThe Wall Street JournalIvy GlobalREADING226
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 of Time The Universe i
