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 A2Love by Design (Macmillan) Decline and Fall (Oxford)  Dead Cold (Cambridge)  | Low Intermed B1Recycling (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) 
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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 B2The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Oxford) Rebecca (Macmillan)
Touching the Void (Macmillan)  Windows of the Mind (Cambridge)  A Tangled Web (Cambridge)  | Advanced C1The 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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