Portuguese books for beginners

15 public domain books in Portuguese 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
15 A2-B1
Length
15,404 to 78,080 words
Reading time
1 h 17 min to 6 h 30 min
Common words
78% 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 Portuguese (Zipf frequency 4 or higher, wordfreq data). Reading time assumes a native pace of 200 words a minute.

Dom Casmurro Machado de Assis B1 5 h 31 min Os Lusíadas Luís de Camões B1 4 h 45 min Quincas Borba Machado de Assis B1 6 h 30 min Flores do Campo João de Deus B1 1 h 54 min O Assassino de Macario: Comedia em tres actos Camilo Castelo Branco B1 1 h 17 min A Mao e A Luva Machado de Assis B1 2 h 58 min Esau e Jacob Machado de Assis B1 5 h 57 min O Napoleão de Notting Hill G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton and W. Graham (Walford Graham) Robertson B1 4 h 19 min Lendas do sul J. Simões (João Simões) Lopes Neto B1 1 h 34 min Memórias Raul Brandão B1 5 h 21 min Reliquias de Casa Velha Machado de Assis B1 4 h 2 min A Casa do Saltimbanco Mme. de Stolz and Émile Antoine Bayard B1 3 h 54 min Serão inquieto : contos António Patrício B1 2 h 35 min Memorial de Ayres Machado de Assis B1 4 h 17 min Historia alegre de Portugal: leitura para o povo e para as escolas Manuel Pinheiro Chagas B1 3 h 16 min

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