備考ACT的中國粹生,最大的短板該是瀏覽速率了吧,信任一個有含金量的英文書單會對眾人的瀏覽晉升有贊助的。下面依照年級列出了美國高中生推舉的讀物列表,供考生依據本身的備考籌劃來選取。
9th Grade
《Things Fall Apart》by Chinua Achebe
《Tuesdays With Morrie》by Mitch Albom
《Dibs in Search of Self》by Virginia M. Axline
《The Alchemist》by Paulo Coelho
《Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave》by Frederick Douglass
《Nickel and Dimed》by Barbara Ehrenreich
《The House of the Scorpion》by Nancy Farmer
《Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl》by Anne Frank
《The Princess Bride》by William Goldman
《Lord of the Flies》by William Golding
《The Canterbury Tales》by Geoffrey Chaucer
《The Scarlet Letter》by Nathaniel Hawthorne
《Siddhartha》by Hermann Hesse
《The Outsiders》by S.E. Hinton
《Flowers for Algernon》by Daniel Keyes
《A Wrinkle in Time》by Madeleine L'Engle
《The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)》by C.S. Lewis
《The Crucible》by Arthur Miller
《Animal Farm》by George Orwell
《The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spy Glass, The Rubyonthe Stone》by Philip Pullman
《Holes》by Louis Sachar
《Romeo and Juliet》by William Shakespeare
《Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak》by David Sierakowiak
《Brighton Beach Memoirs》by Neil Simon
《Treasure Island》by Robert Louis Stevenson
《Eragon》by Christopher Paolini
《The Great Gatsby》by F. Scott Fitzgerald
《Our Town》by Thornton Wilder
《The Effect of Gamma Rays on the Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds》by Paul Zindel
《The Pigman》by Paul Zindel
10th Grade
《I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings》by Maya Angelou
《The Shakespeare Stealer》by Gary L. Blackwood
《The Cherry Orchard》by Anton Chekhov
《A Tale of Two Cities》by Charles Dickens
《The House on Mango Street》by Sandra Cisneros
《Of Mice and Men》by John Steinbeck
《1984》by George Orwell
《Childhood's End》by Arthur C. Clarke
《Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year》by Esme Raji Codell
《The Red Badge of Courage》by Stephen Crane
《Boy》by Roald Dahl
《As I Lay Dying》by William Faulkner
《Miracle Worker》by William Gibson
《Brave New World》by Aldous Huxley
《A Separate Peace》by John Knowles
《To Kill a Mockingbird》by Harper Lee
《Death of a Salesman》by Arthur Miller
《Beloved》by Toni Morrison
《Shakespeare Alive》by Joseph Papp and Elizabeth Kirkland
《A Day No Pigs Would Die》by Richard Peck
《Anthem》by Ayn Rand
《Their Eyes Were Watching God》by Zora Neale Hurston
《All Quiet on the Western Front》by Erich Maria Remarque
《A Midsummer Night's Dream》by Shakespeare
《Walden》by Henry David Thoreau
《The Sunflower》by Simon Wiesenthal
《The Glass Menagerie》by Tennessee Williams
《The Piano Lesson》by August Wilson
11th and 12th Grade
《Water for Elephants》by Sara Gruen
《Snow Flower and the Secret Fan》by Lisa See
《Lace Reader》by Brunonia Barry
《Slaughterhouse-Five》by Kurt Vonnegut
《The Perks of Being a Wallflower》by Stephen Chbosky
《Three Cups of Tea》by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
《Stones Into Schools》by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
《Girl in Translation》by Jean Kwok
《The Bell Jar》by Sylvia Plath
《The Grapes of Wrath》by John Steinbeck
《The Lovely Bones》by Alice Sebold
《House of Mirth》by Edith Wharton
《Metamorphosis》by Franz Kafka
《Catch-22》by Joseph Heller
《The Joy Luck Club》by Amy Tan
《The Picture of Dorian Gray》by Oscar Wilde
《Selected Tales》by Edgar Allen Poe
《Jane Eyre》by Charlotte Bronte
《Wuthering Heights》by Gustave Flaubert
《Unbroken》by Laura Hillenbrand