美国高考SAT是美国大学理事会(College Board)负责开展的,因此College Board推荐的书单深受家长和学员的重视。本期我们整理了大学理事会推荐的101本必读书目,读了这些书不仅对孩子准备SAT大有裨益,对AP英文课程也很有好处。
另外,我们还在书目中附上了Lexile阅读难度分级。Lexile是全美通用的阅读能力和图书分级系统,有利于帮助家长和学生有效选择图书,循序渐进地提高阅读能力。在全球教育界受到广泛认可的学习法i+1理论强调的就是我们应该选择比自己水平(i)高那么一点儿(1)的材料内容,这样既能有所提高,又不至于让学习内容跨度过大、晦涩难懂。以Lexile分级为例,如果孩子目前只能勉强读懂680L级别的《夏洛特的网》(Charlotte’sWeb),那非要去啃990L级别的《双城记》(ATale of Two Cities)就很能事倍功半,还会挫伤孩子学习的积极性。
列一张Lexile根据年级的阅读分级表,大家可以先有点儿直观的认识。
年级 |
阅读水平级数 |
1 |
0L –300L |
2 |
140L – 500L |
3 |
330L – 700L |
4 |
445L – 810L |
5 |
565L – 910L |
6 |
665L – 1000L |
7 |
735L – 1065L |
8 |
805L – 1100L |
9 |
855L – 1165L |
10 |
905L – 1195L |
11-12 |
940L – 1210L |
美国大学理事会推荐的101本书单,多数适合初中、高中的学生,家庭可以根据孩子的阅读水平来酌情选择。另外,书单中部分书目因为是由欧洲语言翻译过来的,英文版本众多,或因属于中世纪等较古老的英文,或因只是短篇小说,暂无分级。
作者 |
书名 |
中文名 |
Lexile |
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Beowulf |
贝奥武甫 |
n/a |
Achebe, Chinua |
Things Fall Apart |
瓦解 |
890L |
Agee, James |
A Death in The Family |
家中丧事 |
1020L |
Austen, Jane |
Pride and Prejudice |
傲慢与偏见 |
1100L |
Baldwin, James |
Go Tell It on the Mountain |
高山上的呼喊 |
1030L |
Beckett, Samuel |
Waiting for Godot |
等待戈多 |
n/a |
Bellow, Saul |
The Adventures of Augie March |
奥吉玛琪历险记 |
1040L |
Bronte, Charlotte |
Jane Eyre |
简爱 |
890L |
Bronte, Emily |
Wuthering Heights |
呼啸山庄 |
880L |
Camus, Albert |
The Stranger |
局外人 |
880L |
Cather, Willa |
Death Comes for the Archbishop |
大主教之死 |
1150L |
Chaucer, Geoffrey |
The Canterbury Tales |
坎特伯雷故事集 |
n/a |
Chekhov, Anton |
The Cherry Orchard |
樱桃园 |
n/a |
Chopin, Kate |
The Awakening |
觉醒 |
960L |
Conrad, Joseph |
Heart of Darkness |
黑暗之心 |
1050L |
Cooper, James Fenimore |
The Last of the Mohicans |
后的莫希干人 |
1350L |
Crane, Stephen |
The Red Badge of Courage |
红色英勇勋章 |
900L |
Dante |
Inferno |
神曲-地狱篇 |
n/a |
de Cervantes, Miguel |
Dan Quixote |
堂吉诃德 |
1500L |
Defoe, Daniel |
Robinson Crusoe |
鲁滨逊漂流记 |
1070L |
Dickens, Charles |
A Tale of Two Cities |
双城记 |
990L |
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor |
Crime and Punishment |
罪与罚 |
990L |
Douglass, Frederick |
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass |
一个美国黑奴的自传 |
1080L |
Dreiser, Theodore |
An American Tragedy |
美国的悲剧 |
1240L |
Dumas, Alexandre |
The Three Musketeers |
三个火枪手 |
960L |
Eliot, George |
The Mill on the Floss |
弗洛斯河上的磨坊 |
1240L |
Ellison, Ralph |
Invisible Man |
隐身人 |
950L |
Emerson, Ralph Waldo |
Selected Essays |
爱默生散文精选 |
n/a |
Faulkner, William |
As I Lay Dying |
我弥留之际 |
870L |
Faulkner, William |
The Sound and the Fury |
喧哗与骚动 |
870L |
Fielding, Henry |
Tom Jones |
汤姆琼斯 |
1360L |
Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
The Great Gatsby |
了不起的盖茨比 |
1070L |
Flaubert, Gustave |
Madame Bovary |
包法利夫人 |
1030L |
Ford, Madox Ford |
The Good Soldier |
好兵 |
1040L |
Goethe, Johann Wolfgangvon |
Faust |
浮士德 |
n/a |
Golding, William |
Lord of the Flies |
蝇王 |
770L |
Hardy, Thomas |
Tess of the d’ Urbervilles |
苔丝 |
1160L |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
The Scarlet Letter |
红字 |
1340L |
Heller, Joseph |
Catch 22 |
第22条军规 |
1140L |
Hemingway, Ernest |
A Farewell to Arms |
永别了,武器 |
730L |
Homer |
The Iliad |
伊利亚特 |
n/a |
Homer |
The Odyssey |
奥德赛 |
n/a |
Hugo, Victor |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
巴黎圣母院 |
1340L |
Hurston, Zora Neale |
Their Eyes Were Watching God |
凝望上帝 |
1080L |
Huxley, Aldous |
Brave New World |
美丽新世界 |
870L |
Ibsen, Henri |
A Doll’s House |
玩偶之家 |
n/a |
James, Henry |
The Portrait of a Lady |
一位贵妇人的画像 |
1020L |
James, Henry |
The Turn of the Screw |
螺丝在拧紧 |
1140L |
Joyce, James |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
一个青年艺术家的画像 |
1120L |
Kafka, Franz |
The Metamorphosis |
变形记 |
1320L |
Kingston, Maxine Hong |
The Woman Warrior |
女战士 |
880L |
Lee, Harper |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
杀死一只知更鸟 |
870L |
Lewis, Sinclair |
Babbitt |
巴比特 |
1110L |
London, Jack |
The Call of the Wild |
野性的呼唤 |
1120L |
Mann, Thomas |
The Magic Mountain |
魔山 |
1350L |
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia |
One Hundred Years of Solitude |
百年孤独 |
1410L |
Melville, Herman |
Bartleby the Scrivener |
文书巴特尔比 |
n/a |
Melville, Herman |
Moby Dick |
白鲸记 |
1200L |
Miller, Arthur |
The Crucible |
萨勒姆的女巫 |
1320L |
Morrison, Toni |
Beloved |
宠儿 |
870L |
O’Connor, Flannery |
A Good Man is Hard to Find |
好人难寻 |
n/a |
O’Neill, Eugene |
Long Day’s Journey into Night |
长夜漫漫路迢迢 |
n/a |
Orwell, George |
Animal Farm |
动物农场 |
1170L |
Pasternak, Boris |
Doctor Zhivago |
日瓦戈医生 |
1010L |
Plath, Sylvia |
The Bell Jar |
钟形罩 |
1140L |
Poe, Edgar Allan |
Selected Tales |
爱伦坡短篇小说选 |
n/a |
Proust, Marcel |
Swann’s Way |
追忆似水年华 |
n/a |
Pynchon, Thomas |
The Crying of Lot 49 |
拍卖第49批 |
1060L |
Remarque, Erich Maria |
All Quiet on the Western Front |
西线无战事 |
830L |
Rostand, Edmond |
Cyrano de Bergerac |
大鼻子情圣 |
n/a |
Roth, Henry |
Call It Sleep |
就说是睡着了 |
n/a |
Salinger, J.D. |
The Catcher in the Rye |
麦田守望者 |
790L |
Shakespeare, William |
Hamlet |
哈姆雷特 |
n/a |
Shakespeare, William |
Macbeth |
麦克白 |
n/a |
Shakespeare, William |
A Midsummer Night’s Dream |
仲夏夜之梦 |
n/a |
Shakespeare, William |
Romeo and Juliet |
罗密欧与朱丽叶 |
n/a |
Shaw, George Bernard |
Pygmalion |
皮格马利翁 |
n/a |
Shelley, Mary |
Frankenstein |
弗兰肯斯坦 |
1170L |
Silko, Leslie Marmon |
Ceremony |
典仪 |
890L |
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander |
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |
伊凡杰尼索维奇的一天 |
900L |
Sophocles |
Antigone |
安提戈涅 |
n/a |
Sophocles |
Oedipus Rex |
俄狄浦斯王 |
n/a |
Steinbeck, John |
The Grapes of Wrath |
愤怒的葡萄 |
680L |
Stevenson, Robert Louis |
Treasure Island |
金银岛 |
1070L |
Stowe, Harriet Beecher |
Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
汤姆叔叔的小屋 |
1050L |
Swift, Jonathan |
Gulliver’s Travels |
格列弗游记 |
1210L |
Thackeray, William |
Vanity Fair |
名利场 |
1270L |
Thoreau, Henry David |
Walden |
瓦尔登湖 |
1340L |
Tolstoy, Leo |
War and Peace |
战争与和平 |
1240L |
Turgenev, Ivan |
Fathers and Sons |
父与子 |
n/a |
Twain, Mark |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
哈克贝利费恩历险记 |
990L |
Voltaire |
Candide |
老实人 |
1110L |
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. |
Slaughterhouse-Five |
第五号屠宰场 |
850L |
Walker, Alice |
The Color Purple |
紫色 |
670L |
Wharton, Edith |
The House of Mirth |
欢乐之家 |
1230L |
Welty, Eudora |
Collected Stories |
尤多拉韦尔蒂全集 |
980L |
Whitman, Walt |
Leaves of Grass |
草叶集 |
n/a |
Wilde, Oscar |
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
道林格雷的画像 |
920L |
Williams, Tennessee |
The Glass Menagerie |
玻璃动物园 |
n/a |
Woolf, Virginia |
To the Lighthouse |
到灯塔去 |
1030L |
Wright, Richard |
Native Son |
土生子 |
700L |