新SAT最重要的改革是放弃了原有的单纯词汇背诵部分，强化了阅读理解。阅读，阅读，阅读，成为新SAT的重中之重。新SAT考察的阅读内容也和老SAT有所不同。下面是和新SAT相关的阅读书目，适用于现行SAT和2016年新SAT的阅读准备。
1.American Literature 美国文学
2.A Death in the Family家中丧事（1957普利策奖）
Story of loss and heartbreak felt when ayoung father dies.
3. Winesburg, Ohio 小镇畸人
A collection of short stories lays bare thelife of a small townin the Midwest.
4. Go Tell It On the Mountain向苍天呼吁
Semi-autobiographical novel about a14-year-old black youth'sreligious conversion.
5.Looking Backward: 2000-1887回顾2000-1887
Written in 1887 about a young man whotravels in time to autopian year 2000, where economic security and a healthymoral environment havereduced crime.
6. Seize the Day只争朝夕
A son grapples with his love and hate foran unworthy father.
7. ahrenheit 451华氏四百五十一度
Reading is a crime and firemen burn booksin this futuristicsociety.
8. My Antonia我的安东妮亚
Immigrant pioneers strive to adapt to theNebraska prairies.
9. The Awakening 觉醒
The story of a New Orleans woman whoabandons her husband andchildren to search for love and self-understanding.
10. The Ox-Bow Incident黄牛惨案
When a group of citizens discovers one oftheir members has beenmurdered by cattle rustlers, they form an illegal posse,pursue the murderers,and lynch them.
11. he Chocolate War巧克力战争
Jerry Renault challenges the powerstructure of his school whenhe refuses to sell chocolates for the annualfundraiser.
12. The Red Badge of Courage 红色英勇勋章
During the Civil War, Henry Fleming joinsthe army full ofromantic visions of battle which are shattered by combat.
13. A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Three generations of Native American womenrecount their searchesfor identity and love.
14. Invisible Man 隐形人
A black man's search for himself as anindividual and as a memberof his race and his society.
15. As I Lay Dying 在我弥留之际
The Bundren family takes the ripeningcorpse of Addie, wife andmother, on a gruesomely comic journey.
16. The Great Gatsby 了不起的盖茨比
A young man corrupts himself and theAmerican Dream to regain alost love.
17. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman简•皮特曼小姐自传
In her 100 years, Miss Jane Pittmanexperiences it all, fromslavery to the civil rights movement.
18. The Scarlet Letter 红字
An adulterous Puritan woman keeps secretthe identity of thefather of her illegitimate child.
19. Catch-22 第二十二条军规
A broad comedy about a WWII bombardierbased in Italy and his effortsto avoid bombing missions.
20. A Farewell to Arms 永别了，武器
During World War I, an American lieutenantruns away with thewoman who nurses him back to health.
21. Their Eyes Were Watching God凝望上帝（又译他们眼望上苍）
Janie repudiates many roles in her questfor self-fulfillment.
22. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 飞跃布谷鸟巢
A novel about a power struggle between thehead nurse and one ofthe male patients in a mental institution.
23. To Kill a Mockingbird 杀死一只知更鸟
At great peril to himself and his children,lawyer Atticus Finchdefends an African-American man accused of raping a whitewoman in a smallAlabama town.
24. Main Street 大街
A young doctor's wife tries to change theugliness, dullness andignorance which prevail in Gopher Prairie, Minn.
25. Call of the Wild 野性的呼唤
Buck is a loyal pet dog until cruel menmake him a pawn in theirsearch for Klondike gold.
26. The Member of the Wedding 婚礼的成员
A young southern girl is determined to bethe third party on ahoneymoon, despite all the advice against it from friendsand family.
27. Moby-Dick 白鲸
A complex novel about a mad sea captain'spursuit of the WhiteWhale.
28. Sula 秀拉
The lifelong friendship of two womenbecomes strained when onecauses the other's husband to abandon her.
29. A Good Man is Hard to Find 好人难寻
Social awareness, the grotesque, and theneed for faithcharacterize these stories of the contemporary South.
30. The Learning Tree 知识树
A fictional study of a black family in asmall Kansas town in the1920s.
31. The Bell Jar 钟形罩
The heartbreaking story of a talented youngwoman's descent intomadness.
32. Great Tales and Poems
Poe is considered the father of detectivestories and a master ofsupernatural tales.
33. The Chosen 抉择
Friendship between two Jewish boys, one Hasidicand the otherOrthodox, begins at a baseball game and flourishes despite theirdifferentbackgrounds and beliefs.
34. he Catcher in the Rye 麦田里的守望者
A prep school dropout rejects the"phoniness" he seesall about him.
35. The Jungle 从林
The deplorable conditions of the Chicagostockyards are exposedin this turn-of-the-century novel.
36. The Grapes of Wrath 愤怒的葡萄
The desperate flight of tenant farmers fromOklahoma during theDepression.
37. Uncle Tom's Cabin 汤姆叔叔的小屋
The classic tale that awakened a nationabout the slave system.
38. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn哈克贝利•芬历险记
Huck and Jim, a runaway slave, travel downthe Mississippi insearch of freedom.
39. laughterhouse-Five 第五号屠宰场
Billy Pilgrim, an optometrist from Ilium,New York, shuttlesbetween World War II Dresden and a luxurious zoo on theplanet Tralfamadore.
40. The Color Purple 紫色
A young woman sees herself as propertyuntil another womanteaches her to value herself.
41. The Time Machine 时光机器
A scientist invents a machine that transportshim into thefuture.
42. Thirteen Stories 十三个故事
A collection of short stories about peopleand life in the deepSouth.
43. Look Homeward, Angel天使，望故乡
A novel depicting the coming of age ofEugene Gant and hispassion to experience life.
44. Native Son 土生子
Bigger Thomas, a young man from the Chicagoslums, lashes outagainst a hostile society by committing two murders.
45. World Literature 世界文学
46. Things Fall Apart 瓦解
Okonkwo, a proud village leader, is drivento murder and suicideby European changes to his traditional Ibo society.
47. House of the Spirits 精灵之屋（又译金色豪门）
The story of the Trueba family in Chile,from the turn of thecentury to the violent days of the overthrow of theSalvador Allende governmentin 1973.
48. ride and Prejudice 傲慢与偏见
Love and marriage among the English countrygentry of Austen'sday.
49. Pere Goriot 高老头
A father is reduced to poverty after givingmoney to hisdaughters.
50. Labyrinths 迷宫
An anthology of literary fireworks based onBorges' favoritesymbol.
51. Jane Eyre 简•爱
An intelligent and passionate governessfalls in love with astrange, moody man tormented by dark secrets.
52. Wuthering Heights 呼啸山庄
One of the masterpieces of Englishromanticism, this is a novelof Heathcliff and Catherine, love and revenge.
53. The Stranger异乡人（又译局外人）
A man who is virtually unknown to bothhimself and others commitsa pointless murder for which he has no explanation.
54. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 爱丽丝漫游奇境记
A fantasy in which Alice follows the WhiteRabbit to a dreamworld.
55. Don Quixote 堂吉诃德
An eccentric old gentleman sets out as aknight "tilting atwindmills" to right the wrongs of the world.
