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college level books...
does anybody have a list of college level books i an read???
all i know is shakespeare...
thanks, i need this to 'expand my vocabulary' for my SAT test!
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Apart from being a great novel on it's own, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde has a pretty complicated vocabulary. Other challenging books are 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell, and Anthem by Ayn Rand. Hopefully you enjoy political novelas =].
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Hmm I only have a few- I hope that's alright.
"Moby Dick" -Herman Melville
"The Scarlett Letter" -Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Cat's Cradle" -Kurt Vonnegut
"The Iliad" -Homer [translated by Robert Fitzgerald]
"The Aeneid" -Virgil [translated by Allan Mandelbaum
I hope that's at least a few. My English teacher last year said Moby-Dick is a huge one for vocabulary. We read it as sophomores in high school, though =].
--Jack
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You could look into Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Also, anything by Faulkner, Jane Austen, the Bronte Sisters will be up to the level you're after. I've read a lot by each of these authors, and they're both challenging and enjoyable.
Also there is a page on collegeboard.com with 101 Great Books. Since collegeboard.com is the owner of the SAT, I think anything on this page would be a great option. [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
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All incoming freshman at my college are required to read The Glass Castle.
It's a memoire, but it's pretty good (so far - I haven't finished it). I think it's by Jeanette Walls (Sp?).
Since it's required reading, I suppose that makes it a college level book.
But, since you're looking to expand your vocabulary, there are tons of great websites with SAT vocab words and such. All you really need is a google search for them.
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