Guide to Graded Readers

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. Choose a story you would enjoy in your first language. Here are a few suggestions:

Starter/Beginner Why? by Philip Prowse Stranger Than Fiction: Urban Myths (Penguin) Five Short Plays (Oxford) Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Oxford)	Elementary Love by Design (Macmillan) Decline and Fall (Oxford) Dead Cold (Cambridge)	Pre-Intermediate 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 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-Intermediate The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Oxford) Rebecca (Macmillan) Touching the Void (Macmillan) Windows of the Mind (Cambridge) A Tangled Web (Cambridge)	Advanced 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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