Guide to Graded Readers

Graded Readers are books specially prepared for language learners. For a guide to language levels go here:

Some readers are original stories and some adaptations of classics.

Choosing a graded reader is like selecting any book. Choose a story you would enjoy in your first language. Here are a few suggestions:

Starter (A1) Why? by Philip Prowse Stranger Than Fiction: Urban Myths (Penguin) Five Short Plays (Oxford) Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Oxford)	Elementary A2 Love by Design (Macmillan) Decline and Fall (Oxford) Dead Cold (Cambridge)	Low Intermed B1 Recycling (Oxford) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Oxford Bookworms) No Longer at Ease: Intermediate (Macmillan) The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (Oxford) A Morbid Taste for Bones(Oxford) Rebecca (Macmillan)
Intermediate B1 The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (Oxford Bookworms) A Morbid Taste for Bones: 1400 Headwords (Oxford Bookworms Library) Rebecca (Macmillan ELT Reader & CD Pack) The Amsterdam Connection (Cambridge English Readers) No Longer at Ease: Intermediate (Macmillan Reader)	Upper-Intermed B2 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Oxford) Rebecca (Macmillan) Touching the Void (Macmillan) Windows of the Mind (Cambridge) A Tangled Web (Cambridge)	Advanced C1 The Bride Price (Oxford) Saving Private Ryan (Penguin) Cambridge English Skills Real Reading

A guide to some of the main series of graded readers can be found here. Sue Leather's tips on writing a reader are here





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