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Free English Books for Learners (Beginner to Advanced)

We currently offer 224 free English books, from Shakespeare and Austen to Dickens and Twain, all available to read online on PC, mobile, and tablet.

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Reading in English is one of the most effective ways to improve vocabulary, grammar, and comprehension. On Mnemoread, you can read free English books in their original language, with built-in tools designed specifically for language learners β€” no interruptions, no switching apps.

Whether you are a beginner discovering English literature or an advanced learner reading English classics, this page helps you choose the right book for your level.

Find Books for Your Level

Beginner: Start with easy English books, short stories, and beginner-friendly texts with simple vocabulary, familiar themes, and clear sentence structures. These books are ideal if you are learning English by reading for the first time.

Intermediate: Progress to classic novels and narrative works with richer vocabulary, longer sentences, and more complex storytelling, while still remaining accessible for learners.

Advanced: Challenge yourself with complex philosophical works, essays, and advanced literature written for native-level readers.

Each book's level comes from measuring its text: how many of the language's most common words you need to know to understand 95% of it, and how long its sentences are. Levels compare the books of our library, so "beginner" means the easiest we have, not a textbook level; plays and poems can look easier than they are, since their lines are short. French, English and Japanese books also show a CEFR or JLPT reading, taken from published vocabulary lists.

Browse all available English books below, or use the difficulty tags to find the best starting point for your level.

224 books

BeginnerCEFR B2(32)

A Little Princess

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Beginner

A Room With A View

E. M. Forster

Beginner

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

Beginner

Before Egypt

Franz Rosenzweig

Beginner

Cup of Gold

John Steinbeck

Beginner

Curated Short Stories For Beginners

Mnemoread

Beginner

Pillar of Fire

Ray Bradbury

Beginner

Poirot Investigates

Agatha Christie

Beginner

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

Beginner

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Beginner

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

Beginner

The Clue

H.G. Wells

Beginner

The Eyes Have It

Philip K. Dick

Beginner

The Hanging Stranger

Philip K. Dick

Beginner

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

Beginner

The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury

Beginner

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

Beginner

The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James

Beginner

The Princess and the Goblin

George MacDonald

Beginner

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

Beginner

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Beginner

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

Beginner

The Tower Treasure

Franklin W. Dixon

Beginner

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum

Beginner

There Is Confusion

Jessie Redmon Fauset

Beginner

This Crowded Earth

Robert Bloch

Beginner

Washington Square

Henry James

Beginner

Winnie-the-Pooh

A. A. Milne

Beginner

Youth

Isaac Asimov

Beginner

Zero Hour

Ray Bradbury

Beginner

ΠœΡ‹

Π•Π²Π³Π΅Π½ΠΈΠΉ Замятин

Beginner

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

Beginner

IntermediateCEFR B2(97)

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

Intermediate

A Prisoner In Fairyland

Algernon Blackwood

Intermediate

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

Intermediate

A Voyage to Arcturus

David Lindsay

Intermediate

Allan Quatermain

H. Rider Haggard

Intermediate

Animal Farm

George Orwell

Intermediate

Anne of Green Gables

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Intermediate

Bambi

Felix Salten

Intermediate

Before Adam

Jack London

Intermediate

Cranford

Elizabeth Gaskell

Intermediate

Daniel Deronda

George Eliot

Intermediate

Day and Night Stories

Algernon Blackwood

Intermediate

Double Cosmos

Clark Ashton Smith

Intermediate

Dracula

Bram Stoker

Intermediate

Driven Back To Eden

Roe

Intermediate

Dubliners

James Joyce

Intermediate

Emily of New Moon

L. M. Montgomery

Intermediate

Emma

Jane Austen

Intermediate

Ethan Frome

Thomas Warton

Intermediate

Fifty-One Tales

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany

Intermediate

Four Weird Tales

Algernon Blackwood

Intermediate

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Intermediate

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

Intermediate

Household Tales

Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

Intermediate

In Darkest London

G. K. Chesterton

Intermediate

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Intermediate

Incredible Adventures

Algernon Blackwood

Intermediate

John Silence: Physician Extraordinary

Algernon Blackwood

Intermediate

King Solomon's Mines

H. Rider Haggard

Intermediate

Lilith

George MacDonald

Intermediate

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Intermediate

Lost Face

Jack London

Intermediate

Manalive

G. K. Chesterton

Intermediate

Martin Eden

Jack London

Intermediate

Middlemarch

George Eliot

Intermediate

Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

Intermediate

Night and Day

Virginia Woolf

Intermediate

Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell

Intermediate

Pan's Garden

Algernon Blackwood

Intermediate

Peter and Wendy

J.M. Barrie

Intermediate

Peter Pan

J.M. Barrie

Intermediate

Phantastes

George MacDonald

Intermediate

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Intermediate

Red Nails

Robert E. Howard

Intermediate

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

Intermediate

Short Fiction

Henry Kuttner

Intermediate

Smith Double Cosmos

Ashton

Intermediate

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

Intermediate

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

Intermediate

The Awakening

Kate Chopin

Intermediate

The Black Kiss

Charles Bloch

Intermediate

The Blacker the Berry

Wallace Thurman

Intermediate

The Blue Castle

L. M. Montgomery

Intermediate

The Centaur

Algernon Blackwood

Intermediate

The Charwoman's Shadow

Lord Dunsany

Intermediate

The Crock of Gold

James Stephens

Intermediate

The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories

Algernon Blackwood

Intermediate

The Enchanted April

Elizabeth von Arnim

Intermediate

The First Men In The Moon

H.G. Wells

Intermediate

The Food of the Gods

H.G. Wells

Intermediate

The Gods of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Intermediate

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Intermediate

The House At Pooh Corner

A. A. Milne

Intermediate

The House on the Borderland

William Hope Hodgson

Intermediate

The Invisible Man

H.G. Wells

Intermediate

The Iron Heel

Jack London

Intermediate

The Island of Doctor Moreau

H.G. Wells

Intermediate

The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

Intermediate

The King in Yellow

Robert W. Chambers

Intermediate

The Last Miracle

Matthew Phipps Shiel

Intermediate

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

Intermediate

The Lost World

Arthur Conan Doyle

Intermediate

The Magician

W. Somerset Maugham

Intermediate

The Master Mind of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Intermediate

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

Intermediate

The Pit

Frank Norris

Intermediate

The Problems of Philosophy

Bertrand Russell

Intermediate

The Road to Oz

L. Frank Baum

Intermediate

The Sea-Wolf

Jack London

Intermediate

The Son of the Wolf

Jack London

Intermediate

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

Intermediate

The Survivors

William Godwin

Intermediate

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

Intermediate

The Voyage Out

Virginia Woolf

Intermediate

The War of the Worlds

H.G. Wells

Intermediate

The Wave: An Egyptian Aftermath

Algernon Blackwood

Intermediate

The Willows

Algernon Blackwood

Intermediate

The Wolves of God and Other Fey Stories

Algernon Blackwood

Intermediate

Three John Silence Stories

Algernon Blackwood

Intermediate

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

Intermediate

When God Laughs

Jack London

Intermediate

When the World Shook

H. Rider Haggard

Intermediate

White Fang

Jack London

Intermediate

Wolf Solent

John Cowper Powys

Intermediate

Women and Economics

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Intermediate

Wuthering Heights

Emily BrontΓ«

Intermediate

Анна ΠšΠ°Ρ€Π΅Π½ΠΈΠ½Π°

Π›Π΅Π² Волстой

Intermediate

AdvancedCEFR B2–C2(95)

A Princess of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Advanced

An Adventure In Futurity

Clark Ashton Smith

Advanced

An Offering To The Moon

Clark Ashton Smith

Advanced

At the Mountains of Madness

H. P. Lovecraft

Advanced

Beowulf

Unknown Author

Advanced

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

Advanced

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

Advanced

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift

Advanced

Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes

Advanced

Melmoth the Wanderer

Charles Robert Maturin

Advanced

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville

Advanced

Orlando

Virginia Woolf

Advanced

Paradise Lost

John Milton

Advanced

Prince Zaleski

M. P. Shiel

Advanced

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

Advanced

Shadows In Zamboula

Robert E. Howard

Advanced

She

H. Rider Haggard

Advanced

Silas Marner

George Eliot

Advanced

Smith An Offering To The Moon

Ashton

Advanced

Smith The Chain Of Aforgomon

Ashton

Advanced

Smith The Demon Of The Flower

Ashton

Advanced

Smith The Dimension Of Chance

Ashton

Advanced

Smith The Double Shadow

Ashton Smith

Advanced

Smith The Dweller In The Gulf

Ashton

Advanced

Smith The Eternal World

Ashton

Advanced

Smith The Flower Women

Ashton

Advanced

Smith The Gorgon

Ashton

Advanced

Smith The Invisible City

Ashton

Advanced

Smith The Isle Of The Torturers

Ashton Smith

Advanced

Smith The Nameless Offspring

Ashton

Advanced

Smith The Planet Of The Dead

Ashton

Advanced

Smith The Plutonian Drug

Ashton

Advanced

Smith The Seed From The Sepulchre

Ashton

Advanced

Smith The Star-Treader And Other Poems

Ashton

Advanced

Smith Xeethra

Ashton

Advanced

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom

Tobias Smollett

Advanced

The Blazing World

Margaret Cavendish

Advanced

The Book of Wonder

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany

Advanced

The Call of Cthulhu

H. P. Lovecraft

Advanced

The Call of the Wild

Jack London

Advanced

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

H. P. Lovecraft

Advanced

The Chain Of Aforgomon

Clark Ashton Smith

Advanced

The City of the Singing Flame

Clark Ashton Smith

Advanced

The City of the Singing Flame

Ashton Smith

Advanced

The Colour Out Of Space

H. P. Lovecraft

Advanced

The Dark Eidolon

Clark Ashton Smith

Advanced

The Dark Eidolon

Ashton Smith

Advanced

The Demon Of The Flower

Clark Ashton Smith

Advanced

The Dimension Of Chance

Clark Ashton Smith

Advanced

The Double Shadow

Clark Ashton Smith

Advanced

The Dunwich Horror

H.P. Lovecraft

Advanced

The Dweller In The Gulf

Clark Ashton Smith

Advanced

The Empire of the Necromancers

Clark Ashton Smith

Advanced

The Empire of the Necromancers

Ashton Smith

Advanced

The End of the Story

Clark Ashton Smith

Advanced

The End of the Story

Ashton Smith

Advanced

The Eternal World

Clark Ashton Smith

Advanced

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

Tobias Smollett

Advanced

The Flower Women

Clark Ashton Smith

Advanced

The Gods of Pegāna

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany

Advanced

The Gorgon

Clark Ashton Smith

Advanced

The Hour of the Dragon

Robert E. Howard

Advanced

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton

Advanced

The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Advanced

The Hunters from Beyond

Clark Ashton Smith

Advanced

The Hunters from Beyond

Ashton Smith

Advanced

The Invisible City

Clark Ashton Smith

Advanced

The Isle Of The Torturers

Clark Ashton Smith

Advanced

The King of Elfland's Daughter

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany

Advanced

The Last Man

Mary Shelley

Advanced

The Last of the Mohicans

James Fenimore Cooper

Advanced

The Lord of the Sea

Matthew Phipps Shiel

Advanced

The Maze of the Enchanter

Clark Ashton Smith

Advanced

The Maze of the Enchanter

Ashton Smith

Advanced

The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot

Advanced

The Nameless Offspring

Clark Ashton Smith

Advanced

The Night Land

William Hope Hodgson

Advanced

The Planet Of The Dead

Clark Ashton Smith

Advanced

The Plutonian Drug

Clark Ashton Smith

Advanced

The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

Advanced

The Purple Cloud

Matthew Phipps Shiel

Advanced

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Advanced

The Seed From The Sepulchre

Clark Ashton Smith

Advanced

The Star-Treader And Other Poems

Clark Ashton Smith

Advanced

The Three Impostors

Arthur Machen

Advanced

The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

Advanced

The Wendigo

Algernon Blackwood

Advanced

The White Company

Arthur Conan Doyle

Advanced

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

Advanced

The World Set Free

H.G. Wells

Advanced

Typee

Herman Melville

Advanced

Ulysses

James Joyce

Advanced

Walden

Henry David Thoreau

Advanced

Xeethra

Clark Ashton Smith

Advanced

兡法

孫子

Advanced
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