Dutch books for beginners

6 public domain books in Dutch with mostly everyday words and shorter sentences, CEFR A2-B1 by our estimate. Choose one and open it in Lingo7: the app shows a translation under every sentence, so you can read a real book sooner than you would on your own.

These books at a glance

Books: 6 A2-B1
Length: 15,777 to 59,365 words
Reading time: 1 h 19 min to 4 h 57 min
Common words: 83% of the text on average

The level is our estimate from how common the words are and how long the sentences run, not a test result. Common words are those used at least 10 times per million words of Dutch (Zipf frequency 4 or higher, wordfreq data). Reading time assumes a native pace of 200 words a minute.