English books for intermediate learners

34 public domain books in English at CEFR B2 by our estimate: everyday words still carry most of the text, but the sentences run longer and rare words come more often. In Lingo7 every sentence has its translation underneath, so a rare word takes one tap to check.

These books at a glance

Books
34 B2
Length
11,477 to 217,886 words
Reading time
57 min to 18 h 9 min
Common words
87% 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 English (Zipf frequency 4 or higher, wordfreq data). Reading time assumes a native pace of 200 words a minute.

Every book here also has an adapted version at about A2, offered on its page.

Moby Dick; Or, The Whale Herman Melville B2 18 h 9 min The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay Mary Wollstonecraft and Roger Ingpen B2 2 h 50 min The Odyssey Homer and Samuel Butler B2 10 h 53 min Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare B2 2 h 13 min The Blue Castle: a novel L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery B2 5 h 57 min The Green Mummy Fergus Hume B2 7 h 28 min The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson B2 2 h 9 min The King in Yellow Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers B2 6 h 5 min Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy Louisa May Alcott and Frank T. Merrill B2 16 h 9 min The Mystery of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens B2 8 h 8 min Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley B2 6 h 16 min The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar Maurice Leblanc B2 4 h 33 min The Silent Barrier Louis Tracy, J. V. McFall and A. W. Parsons B2 7 h 2 min Dainty's Cruel Rivals; Or, The Fatal Birthday Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs. B2 4 h 34 min Meditations Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius B2 6 h 29 min Manon Lescaut abbé Prévost B2 5 h 13 min The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 Edgar Allan Poe B2 8 h 4 min The Treasure of Pearls: A Romance of Adventures in California Gustave Aimard and Wraxall, Lascelles, Sir B2 6 h 20 min Cameron of Lochiel Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, H. C. (Harry C.) Edwards and Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir B2 7 h 25 min The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell and Nathaniel Parker Willis B2 7 h 39 min The wisdom of Father Brown G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton B2 6 h 6 min Rizal's own story of his life José Rizal and Austin Craig B2 1 h 8 min The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale Joseph Conrad B2 7 h 41 min Love-at-arms Rafael Sabatini B2 7 h 10 min The Secret of the Night Gaston Leroux B2 8 h 12 min The Grand Babylon Hôtel Arnold Bennett B2 5 h 46 min Thuvia, maid of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs B2 3 h 58 min Ghost Stories of an Antiquary M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James B2 3 h 51 min The call of the wild Jack London B2 2 h 41 min White Fang Jack London B2 6 h 8 min Persuasion Jane Austen B2 7 h 1 min Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome B2 5 h 42 min The Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde and Wallace Goldsmith B2 57 min The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses Robert Louis Stevenson B2 6 h 43 min

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