ELT Readers Guide

Graded Readers are books specially prepared for language learners. Some are original stories and some adaptations of classics.

Choosing a graded reader is like selecting any book. Some readers like romances. Some prefer thrillers or comedies.

The key is to choose something you would enjoy in your first language

Here are a few suggestions:

Starter/Beginner Why? Starter/Beginner Paperback by Philip Prowse Stranger Than Fiction: Urban Myths (Penguin Longman Penguin Readers) Five Short Plays OBW1 (Oxford Bookworms Library) Adventures of Tom Sawyer Level 1 (Oxford Bookworms, Level 1)	Elementary Love by Design: Elementary (Macmillan Reader) Decline and Fall (Oxford Bookworms Library) Dead Cold Level 2 Elementary/Lower Intermediate (Cambridge English Readers)	Pre-Intermediate Oxford Bookworms Factfiles: Stage 3: 1,000 Headwords Recycling Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Oxford Bookworms Library) The Signalman: AND The Ghost at the Trial (Macmillan Reader) No Longer at Ease: Intermediate (Macmillan Reader) The Last Sherlock Holmes Story: Stage 3 (Oxford Bookworms Library, Crime & Mystery) A Morbid Taste for Bones: 1400 Headwords (Oxford Bookworms Library) Rebecca (Macmillan ELT Reader & CD Pack)
Intermediate The Signalman: AND The Ghost at the Trial (Macmillan Reader) The Last Sherlock Holmes Story: Stage 3 (Oxford Bookworms Library, Crime & Mystery) A Morbid Taste for Bones: 1400 Headwords (Oxford Bookworms Library) Rebecca (Macmillan ELT Reader & CD Pack) The Amsterdam Connection Level 4 (Cambridge English Readers) No Longer at Ease: Intermediate (Macmillan Reader)	Upper-Intermediate The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Oxford Bookworms Library: Classics: Stage 5) Rebecca (Macmillan ELT Reader & CD Pack) Touching the Void (Macmillan Reader) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Oxford Bookworms Library) Windows of the Mind Level 5 Upper Intermediate Book with Audio CDs (3) Pack (Cambridge English Readers) A Tangled Web Level 5 Upper Intermediate Book with Audio CDs (3) Pack (Cambridge English Readers)	Advanced The Bride Price (Oxford Bookworms Library, Stage 5) Saving Private Ryan (Penguin Readers, Level 6) Cambridge English Skills Real Reading 3 with answers

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