Summer is the best time to enhance reading abilities among students, especially those sitting for college entrance exams like the ACT and SAT. Reading well-written material, experts recommend, enhances vocabulary, critical thinking, and reading ability, both of which are addressed in the two tests. Recommended titles are timeless novels such as “1984” and “Pride and Prejudice” and nonfiction books such as “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” These books expose learners to complex sentence structure, mixed themes, and academic language typical of texts on standardized tests. By cultivating a summer reading habit, students not only make their language skills more robust, but they also acquire richer cultural and historical contexts that could be useful in essay writing and analysis. Starting now with a thoughtful reading list could just make a measurable difference when test time arrives.