CEFR B1
B1 English books for intermediate readers
Mysteries, adventures and ghost stories over several chapters, retold in clear, natural English. At this level a sentence has 10 words on average, and a typical book about 9,500 words.
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens · B1
The Gold-Bug
Edgar Allan Poe · B1
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll · B1
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett · B1
The Railway Children
E. Nesbit · B1
The Canterville Ghost
Oscar Wilde · B1
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving · B1
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson · B1
Daddy-Long-Legs
Jean Webster · B1
Gulliver's Travels: A Voyage to Lilliput
Jonathan Swift · B1
The Million Pound Bank Note
Mark Twain · B1
The Problem of Cell 13
Jacques Futrelle · B1
Kwaidan: Japanese Ghost Stories
Lafcadio Hearn · B1
The Fire-Bird and the Falcon
Jeremiah Curtin · B1
Jataka Tales: Stories of the Buddha
T. W. Rhys Davids (tr.) · B1
Thor, Loki and the Giants
Annie and Eliza Keary · B1
Pollyanna
Eleanor H. Porter · B1 · Full text
The Princess and the Goblin
George MacDonald · B1 · Full text