English books for A2 level (elementary)

At A2 you know everyday words and the simple past and present, and a full novel is usually too much. The books here are the shortest and plainest in the library: fairy tales, children's stories and simple adventures. Read them with the translation under every sentence and the audio on, and move up to B1 when most lines no longer need the translation.

The Nowadays Girls in the AdirondacksGertrude Hall BrownellA265,945 wordsThe Old Lady fliesRaoul WhitfieldA25,443 wordsThe AeneidVirgilA2113,426 wordsJoan and Co.Frederick Orin BartlettA282,350 wordsThe mystery of the Blue TrainAgatha ChristieA270,439 wordsA Doll's House : a playHenrik IbsenA227,143 wordsHow joy was foundIsobel Wylie HutchisonA27,553 wordsThe double daggerNat RidleyA244,977 wordsFighting for fortuneRoy FranklinA251,029 wordsLysistrataAristophanesA214,433 wordsMurder in the Gilded CageSamuel SpewackA253,959 wordsThe Gay CockadeTemple BaileyA285,466 wordsJust Around the Corner: Romance en casseroleFannie HurstA286,760 wordsWizardLaurence M. JaniferA27,275 wordsThe Yellow CrayonE. Phillips OppenheimA276,171 wordsAs You Like ItWilliam ShakespeareA223,161 wordsThe murder of Roger AckroydAgatha ChristieA272,061 wordsThe Waterloo Roll CallCharles DaltonA276,350 wordsThe Railway ChildrenE. NesbitA258,880 wordsLove's Labour's LostWilliam ShakespeareA222,726 wordsDancing Devil rangeW. C. TuttleA217,010 wordsThe vidiotIb MelchiorA23,532 wordsThe Murder on the LinksAgatha ChristieA265,641 wordsI am a womanAnn BannonA277,743 wordsThe hand of GodMurray LeinsterA25,472 wordsThe RaftConingsby DawsonA2148,897 wordsThe Seven Dials mysteryAgatha ChristieA265,755 wordsParadise LostJohn MiltonA282,705 wordsThe man who saved New YorkRay CummingsA26,341 wordsTorchy and VeeSewell FordA270,803 wordsJonahRobert NathanA230,864 wordsThe Plymouth Express AffairAgatha ChristieA24,894 wordsA Martian OdysseyStanley G. WeinbaumA210,298 wordsA Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam ShakespeareA217,476 wordsThe Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious PeopleOscar WildeA220,791 wordsThe Secret of ChimneysAgatha ChristieA276,803 wordsSpenser's The Faerie Queene, Book IEdmund SpenserA270,897 wordsThe Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIIIth CenturyGeorgette HeyerA293,357 wordsThe Hunniwell boys and the platinum mysteryL. P. WymanA244,230 wordsThe strange houseCatharine ShawA247,347 wordsThe Man Upstairs and Other StoriesP. G. WodehouseA2100,283 wordsSonnets from the PortugueseElizabeth Barrett BrowningA25,184 wordsOnly a girl's loveCharles GarviceA2140,711 wordsSaved from herselfAdelaide StirlingA276,190 wordsThree sevensPerley Poore SheehanA266,813 words"And That's How It Was, Officer"Ralph SholtoA211,290 wordsThe Secret AdversaryAgatha ChristieA277,778 wordsA farewell to armsErnest HemingwayA291,032 wordsThe Rover Boys on the Farm; or, Last Days at Putnam HallEdward StratemeyerA247,172 wordsDivine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, HellDante AlighieriA237,493 wordsBlue eyes and diamondsLemuel De BraA22,298 wordsThe trail of deceptionW. C. TuttleA224,444 wordsThe Man in the Brown SuitAgatha ChristieA277,043 wordsThe Red House MysteryA. A. MilneA261,993 wordsThe Little PrinceAntoine de Saint-ExuperyA2human translation16,938 wordsThe Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and DariaPedro Calderón de la BarcaA229,876 wordsThe Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics)ConfuciusA228,703 wordsLiterary Fables of YriarteTomás de IriarteA214,276 wordsThe Nō Plays of JapanArthur WaleyA239,580 wordsSouth American Jungle TalesHoracio QuirogaA224,526 wordsNumantiaMiguel de Cervantes SaavedraA225,169 wordsThe great Galeoto; Folly or saintlinessJosé EchegarayA256,101 wordsThe son of Don JuanJosé EchegarayA226,929 wordsThe Lay of the CidA243,942 wordsThe American Diary of a Japanese GirlYoné NoguchiA239,367 wordsLife Is a DreamPedro Calderón de la BarcaA224,390 wordsThe Purgatory of St. PatrickPedro Calderón de la BarcaA236,986 wordsEight Dramas of CalderonPedro Calderón de la BarcaA229,822 wordsThe Adventures of PinocchioCarlo CollodiA2human translation39,472 words

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