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College and SATs
 
The Official SAT Study...

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The College Board, a not-for-profit membership association, connects students to college success and opportunity through major programs and services in college admissions, guidance, assessment, financial aid, enrollment, and teaching and learning.... See more more

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Good Luck!

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Classics
 
Jane Austen: The World of...

See this at: amazon.com| Added on 08/22/09

When Jane Austen's novels were published, some readers dismissed them as "too natural to be interesting." Yet their very true-to-lifeness helped earn Austen (1775-1817) her place in the literary canon. Nearly 200 years later, many praise what Austen... See more more

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The Annotated Pride and...

See this at: overstock.com| Added on 08/22/09

This first-ever fully annotated edition of one of the most beloved novels in the world is a sheer delight for Jane Austen fans. Here is the complete text of Pride and Prejudice with more than 2,300 annotations on facing pages, including: •... See more more

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The Curious Incident of...

See this at: amazon.com| Added on 08/21/09

Mark Haddon's bitterly funny debut novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of Adrian Mole. Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone is mathematically gifted and... See more more

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The Beautiful and Damned

See this at: amazon.com| Added on 08/18/09

Fitzgerald's ironic epigraph to The Beautiful and the Damned exemplifies his attitude toward the young rootless post-World War I generation. Fitzgerald here once again displays a wariness of the upper classes--"an abiding distrust, and animosity... See more more

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Frankenstein

See this at: amazon.com| Added on 08/18/09

A timeless, terrifying tale of one man's obsession to create life -- and the monster that became his legacy.

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just wrote an essay on thisgreat book=)

I have to read this for my English class this fall. Did you like this?

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Old Man and the Sea

See this at: amazon.com| Added on 08/18/09

Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honor to the author. In fact The Old Man and the Sea revived Ernest Hemingway's career, which was foundering under the weight of such postwar stinkers as Across the River and into the Trees. It... See more more

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The Jane Austen Handbook

See this at: bbcamericashop.com| Added on 07/03/09

About 200 years have passed since Jane Austen assumed that you, Gentle Reader, knew the difference between a barouche and a phaeton, or why a gentleman never lets go of his hat when paying a morning call. This entertaining and informative book... See more more

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The Once and Future King

See this at: amazon.com| Added on 03/15/09

The world's greatest fantasy classic is the magical epic of King Arthur and his shining Camelot, of Merlyn and Guinevere, of beasts who talk and men who fly, of wizardry and war. It is the book of all things lost and wonderful and sad. It is the... See more more

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Lord of the Flies

See this at: amazon.com| Added on 02/06/09

The story that never grows old... Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely... See more more

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The Age of Innocence

See this at: amazon.com| Added on 02/06/09

The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton's most famous novel, is a love story, written immediately after the end of the First World War. Its brilliant anatomization of the snobbery and hypocrisy of the wealthy elite of New York society in the 1870s made... See more more

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Crime and Punishment

See this at: amazon.com| Added on 02/06/09

Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double... See more more

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The Call of the Wild

See this at: amazon.com| Added on 02/06/09

First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on London's experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a... See more more

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The Catcher in the Rye

See this at: amazon.com| Added on 02/06/09

Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang... See more more

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Gone With the Wind

See this at: amazon.com| Added on 02/06/09

Gone with the Wind is a romantic drama and the only novel by Margaret Mitchell. The story follows Scarlett O'Hara, the daughter of a plantation owner in Georgia during and after the Civil War.

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Thats one of the best books ever.

awesome book

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The Good Soldier

See this at: amazon.com| Added on 02/06/09

First published in 1915, Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier begins, famously and ominously, "This is the saddest story I have ever heard." The book then proceeds to confute this pronouncement at every turn, exposing a world less sad than pathetic,... See more more

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The Scarlet Letter

See this at: amazon.com| Added on 02/06/09

The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully... See more more

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To Kill a Mockingbird

See this at: amazon.com| Added on 02/06/09

At the age of eight, Scout Finch is an entrenched free-thinker. She can accept her father's warning that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird, because mockingbirds harm no one and give great pleasure. The benefits said to be gained from going to school... See more more

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An amazing book.

One of my favorites.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

See this at: amazon.com| Added on 02/06/09

Thought Police. Big Brother. Orwellian. These words have entered our vocabulary because of George Orwell's classic dystopian novel, 1984. The story of one man's nightmare odyssey as he pursues a forbidden love affair through a world ruled by warring... See more more

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Freaked me out when I graduated (in 84), but have given it another go and really got it this time....Only took getting married, 2 kids, living in Thailand for 14 years and a whole lot of perspective...lol!

I really reccomend this.

I read this. It really freaked me out but I really enjoyed it.

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Sophie's Choice

See this at: amazon.com| Added on 02/06/09

The statistics, the testimony and the rest of the historical record of the Holocaust tell a story of unimaginable horror. William Styron-s novel Sophie-s Choice makes it personal, in a tale that is both heartbreaking and riveting in its humanity and... See more more

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The Crucible

See this at: amazon.com| Added on 02/06/09

A drama based on the witch trials in Salem Village.

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All the King's Men

See this at: amazon.com| Added on 02/06/09

One of the finest American novels ever written, All the King's Men is at its most basic the story of two men involved in the public and private swirls of political life. But it is so much more, encompassing a world on the page as big as the one out... See more more

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Crónica de una...

See this at: amazon.com| Added on 02/06/09

Exquisitamente desgarradora ... muy peculiar y brillantemente concebida ... ¿cómo una novela detectivesca metafísica? - New York Times Book Review

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The Grapes of Wrath

See this at: amazon.com| Added on 02/06/09

Novel by John Steinbeck, published in 1939. Set during the Great Depression, it traces the migration of an Oklahoma Dust Bowl family to California and their subsequent hardships as migrant farm workers. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940. The work did... See more more

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Don Quijote de la Mancha

See this at: amazon.com| Added on 02/06/09

The well-known works of literature in this series constitute the most valuable treasures of universal literature. The affordably priced, newly updated books will enhance any library.

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The Importance of Being...

See this at: amazon.com| Added on 02/06/09

The text of this Norton Critical Edition of The Importance of Being Earnest is the established three-act version. Originally in four acts, Wilde shortened it to three at the urging of George Alexander, the owner of the St. James Theatre and first... See more more

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:) love it!

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Moby-Dick

See this at: amazon.com| Added on 02/06/09

On a previous voyage, Captain Ahab lost his leg to Moby Dick, a monstrous white whale. Now, bent on vengeance against the whale, Ahab leads the crew of the Pequod on a pursuit that features constant adventure and horrendous mishaps. On its surface,... See more more

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The Great Gatsby

See this at: amazon.com| Added on 02/06/09

In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great... See more more

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One of my favorites!

It's not very long either, which always helps ; )

excellent book

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Emma

See this at: amazon.com| Added on 02/04/09

Emma Woodhouse is the lovely, lively, willful, and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she understands... See more more

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Sense and Sensibility

See this at: amazon.com| Added on 02/04/09

Jane Austen’s first published novel, Sense and Sensibility is a wonderfully entertaining tale of flirtation and folly that revolves around two starkly different sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. While Elinor is thoughtful, considerate, and calm,... See more more

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I really enjoyed reading this list. I love reading book lists. I've read many of these books and I think you will enjoy them too. Great selection!

I read a book every day or two and am constantly looking for new subject matter. I work, raise kids and am a wife and reading is my ultimate dreamtime!

great list!

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