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Reading or listening to stories in English is a great way to improve in language. Stories it is advisable to choose those that are designed for learning English and which use a simplified dictionary.

VOA Learning English (American English)

On the web VOA we find spoken stories of famous authors in a simplified and abbreviated form.

• VOA Learning English: American Stories – voanews.com

Collections of English Stories with Subtitles

• ENGLISH CRUNCH,
• English Stories Collection,
• English: Practice & Test,
• Learn English Through Story,
• Learn English Through Story with Subtitles.

ELT (English Language Teaching) books

Books marked as ELT are specially written for English students.

Beginner Level

• The House On The Hill by Elizabeth Laird.

Elementary Level

• The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler (ELT level 2).

Pre-intermediate Level

• Forrest Gump (ELT level 3).

Intermediate Level

• The Woman Who Disappeared by Philip Prowse (level 4).

Favorite Stories

• World of Wonders by Robertson Davies,
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.

English Fairy Tales and Stories for Kids

• Free Online Stories for Kids | Short Stories for Kids in English,
• Storynory – storynory.com – original stories, classic fairy tales for kids, stories and poems by classic authors.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Text and audio:	PublicAudioLibrary – youtube.com, Lit2Go.
Text:	Project Gutenberg – text
Audio:	LibriVox, Archive – audio, Greatest AudioBooks – youtube.com.
Search:	YouTube, Google.
Book info:	Wikipedia – book info
Readability:	Flesch–Kincaid Grade Level: 5.5–6 grade
Category:	Young adult
Genre:	Fantasy

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Text and audio:	Lit2Go
Text:	Project Gutenberg – text
Audio:	LibriVox, Archive – audio, Greatest AudioBooks.
Book info:	Wikipedia – book info
Readability:	Flesch–Kincaid Grade Level: 4.5–6 grade
Category:	Young adult
Genre:	Adventure

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

Text:	Project Gutenberg – text.
Audio:	LibriVox, Archive – audio, Greatest AudioBooks.
Book info:	Wikipedia – book info
Readability:	Flesch–Kincaid Grade Level: 7 grade
Category:
Genre:	Nonfiction

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Text and audio:	Lit2Go
Text:	Project Gutenberg – text
Audio:	LibriVox, Archive – audio, Greatest AudioBooks.
Book info:	Wikipedia – book info
Readability:	Flesch–Kincaid Grade Level: 6.1 grade
Category:
Genre:	Mystery

Moby Dick, or The Whale by Herman Melville

Text and audio:	Lit2Go
Text:	Project Gutenberg – text
Audio:	LibriVox, Archive – audio, Audiobooks Unleashed.
Book info:	Wikipedia – book info
Readability:	Flesch–Kincaid Grade Level: 9.8–10 grade
Category:	Fiction
Genre:	Adventure

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Text and audio:	Lit2Go
Text:	Project Gutenberg – text
Audio:	LibriVox, Archive – audio, Greatest AudioBooks.
Book info:	Wikipedia – book info
Readability:	Flesch–Kincaid Grade Level: 7–10 grade
Category:	Young adult
Genre:	Adventure

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Text and audio:	Lit2Go
Text:	Project Gutenberg – text
Audio:	LibriVox, Archive – audio, Greatest AudioBooks.
Book info:	Wikipedia – book info
Readability:	Flesch–Kincaid Grade Level: 9.5–10 grade
Category:	Fiction
Genre:	Romance

The originals of these books should be under Public domain license. The Gutenberg project makes many books that are public domain available online as e-books. Be careful, the copyright expiration under Public domain may vary by country and derivative works may be protected by copyright law.

• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll,
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain,
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu,
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan,
• Moby Dick, or The Whale by Herman Melville,
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain,
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.

The Flesch–Kincaid readability tests are tests that show how difficult it is to understand the English text. A lower school level indicates that the text is easier to read.