SAT Power Reading

Internet Resources
Set your homepage to one of the following, and save bookmarks of the others. Some of these
sites may require a subscription, but most provide a good deal of their material free of charge.

The New York Times: www.nytimes.com
Read the op-ed page every day, the Science Times on Tuesdays, and the Week in
Review on Sundays.
The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com
Read the features and the Atlantic Voices.
Slate Magazine: www.slate.com
Read the News & Politics section.
BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk
Read the Features, Views, Analysis section, and the Background links to the right of the
feature stories.
Salon: www.salon.com
Read the Editors Picks.

Narratives
One Hundred Years of Solitude, G. Garcia-Marquez
The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kozinsky
Candide, Voltaire
Macbeth, William Shakespeare
The Wall, John Hersey
Growing Up, Russell Baker
The Best American Short Stories of the Century, John Updike, editor
Baby, Its 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 Bront
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 Fielding


Arguments
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 Thurber
The Chomsky Reader, Noam Chomsky
The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
A Room of Ones Own, Virginia Woolf
Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington
Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov
The American Language, H. L. Mencken
Selected Essays, 19171932, 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 Wilson

Analyses
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 Peoples 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 Keynes