CEFR C1
C1 English books for advanced readers
Classic novels in shortened versions with advanced vocabulary, and complete original texts. At this level a sentence has 12 words on average, and a typical book about 33,000 words.
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · C1
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · C1
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott · C1
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · C1
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens · C1
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë · C1
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James · C1
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes · C1
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo (tr. Lascelles Wraxall) · C1
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde · C1
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · C1 · Full text
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson · C1 · Full text
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens · C1 · Full text
The Canterville Ghost
Oscar Wilde · C1 · Full text
The Call of the Wild
Jack London · C1 · Full text
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell · C1 · Full text
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson · C1 · Full text
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne · C1 · Full text
Gulliver's Travels: A Voyage to Lilliput
Jonathan Swift · C1 · Full text
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · C1 · Full text
The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain · C1 · Full text
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne · C1 · Full text
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James · C1 · Full text
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë · C1 · Full text
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · C1 · Full text
Stories from the Odyssey
H. L. Havell (from Homer) · C1 · Full text
Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson · C1 · Full text
Silas Marner
George Eliot · C1 · Full text