A great way to increase your verbal standardized testing scores is to read more. Here is a list of books we recommend for high school students.
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare |
| The Mahabharata | Translation by R. K. Narayan |
| The Tales of Genji | Murasaki Shikibu |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| The Sun Also Rises | Earnest Hemingway |
| I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou |
| The Jungle | Upton SInclair |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| The Color Purple | Alice Walker |
| The Catcher In The Rye | J. D. Sallinger |
| Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison |
| The Great Santini | Pat Conroy |
| The Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith |
| The Protestant Work Ethic | Max Weber |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman |
| The Art of War | Sun Tzu |
| The Big Sea | Langston Hughes |
| Crime And Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| The Will To Power | Frederich Nietzche |
| Bhaghavad Ghita | Translation by Barbara Miller |
| The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan |
| The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Alex Haley |
| The Path To Power | Robert Caro |
| The Souls of Black Folk | W. E. B. DuBois |
| The Shame of The Cities | Lincoln Steffens |
| The God of Small Things | Arhundati Roy |
| Black Boy | Richard Wright |
| The Jewel In The Crown | Paul Scott |
| The Book of Proverbs, Holy Bible | King James Ed. |
| The Old Man And The Sea | Earnest Hemingway |
| The Stranger | Albert Camus |
| MacBeth | William Shakespeare |
| A Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man | James Joyce |
| Henderson The Rain King | Saul Bellow |
| Tender Is The Night | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Native Son | Richard Wright |
| The Ramayana | Translation by R. K. Narayan |
| Noble House | James Clavell |
| The Pearl | John Steinbeck |
| Wise Blood | Flannery O’Connor |
| Roots | Alex Haley |
| Shogun | James Clavell |
| For Whom The Bell Tolls | Earnest Hemingway |
| The Tria | Franz Kafka |
| The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison |
| The Power Broker: Robert Moses And The Fall of New York | Robert Caro |
| Angela’s Ashes | Frank MacCourt |
| The Metamorphasis | Franz Kafka |
| The Collected Poems of Wallace Stephens | Wallace Stephens |
| The Prince | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare |
| The Canterbury Tables | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| The Red Pony | John Steinbeck |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens |
| The Water Is Wide | Pat Conroy |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte |
| Of Mice And Men | John Steinbeck |