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War
Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque Hiroshima by John Hershey
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Coming of Age
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Short Stories
Try any short story collection by writers like Ernest Hemingway, Bobbie Ann Mason, Chinua Achebe, Isabel Allende, Flannery O’Connor, Joyce Carol Oates,O.Henry,Gabriel Garcia Marquez,Raymond Carver,Lorrie Moore, Nathan Englander, Ethan Canin, William Faulkner, Edgar Allen Poe, and others.
Inspirational/Spiritual
A Simple Path by Mother Theresa
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Care of the Soul by Thomas Moore
Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen Hinds’ Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard
The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff The Holy Bible
The Koran
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler
Detective/Thriller
Agatha Christie’s murder mysteries
A Time To Kill, The Client by John Grisham The “A is for…” series by Sue Grafton
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Novels by Sara Paretsky
Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Moonlight Becomes You and other novels by Mary Higgins Clark Chromosome 6 and other books by Robin Cook
Increase Your Reading Speed
Below is a list of several books that can help you improve your reading speed.
· 21st Century Guide to Increasing Your Reading Speed by Laurie E. Rozakis and Ellen Lichtenstein
· Breakthrough Rapid Reading by Peter Kump
· How to Be a Rapid Reader: 6 Steps to Increased Speed and Concen-tration by Kathryn Redway
· Power Reading by Laurie Rozakis
· Power Reading: A Dynamic System for Mastering All Your Business Reading by Phyllis Mindell
· Rapid Reading in 5 Days: The Quick-And-Easy Program to Master Faster Reading by Joan Minninger
· Remember Everything You Read: The Evelyn Wood Seven-Day Speed Reading and Learning Program by Stanley D. Frank
· Speed Reading by Tony Buzan
· Super Reading Secrets by Howard Stephen Berg · Triple Your Reading Speed by Wade E. Cutler
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APPENDIX B: COMMON PREFIXES, SUFFIXES, AND WORD ROOTS
familiarity with common prefixes, suffixes, and word roots can dramatically improve your ability to determine the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary words.
The tables below list common prefixes, suffixes, and word roots; their meanings; an example of a word with that prefix, suffix, or word root; the meaning of that word; and a sentence that demonstrates the mean-ing of that word. Refer to this appendix often to refresh your memory and improve your vocabulary.
PREFIXES
Prefixes are syllables added to the beginning of words to change or add to their meaning. This table lists some of the most common prefixes in the English language. They are listed in alphabetical order.
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