CEFR B2 · Upper-intermediate

Read Upper-intermediate Classics in English (B2)

7164 books graded at CEFR B2 (upper-intermediate) — learn English by reading the stories worth reading at exactly your level. Tap any word for an instant translation, listen to the narration, and save the vocabulary you meet. Start with a free sample.

What are the best B2 books to read in English?

The best B2 books to read in English are well-known classics whose own language sits at that level — start with £19,000, Zula and Zoraida: A Romance of the Harem and the Great Sahara. Each is the complete book, labelled CEFR B2 (upper-intermediate), with tap-to-translate, narration and saved vocabulary, so you read a real story while building the English you actually meet in it.

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CEFR B2 (Upper-intermediate) classics, page 84 of 150 — chapters and reading length
Title	Chapters	CEFR
Opening the iron trail	22	B2
Opening the West With Lewis and Clark: By Boat, Horse and Foot Up the Great River Missouri, Across the Stony Mountains and on to the Pacific, When in the Years 1804, 1805, 1806, Young Captain Lewis, the Long Knife, and His Friend Captain Clark, the Red Head Chief, Aided by Sacajawea, the Birdwoman, Conducted Their Little Band of Men Tried and True Through the Unknown New United States	27	B2
Oowikapun, or, How the Gospel reached the Nelson River Indians	17	B2
Only one love	39	B2
Only an Irish Girl	12	B2
Only an Irish Boy; Or, Andy Burke's Fortunes	36	B2
One-Way Ticket to Nowhere	1	B2
One way out	20	B2
One of the 28th: A Tale of Waterloo	1	B2
One of Ours	5	B2
One of My Sons	42	B2
One of Clive's Heroes: A Story of the Fight for India	1	B2
One jump ahead	1	B2
One Wonderful Night: A Romance of New York	19	B2
One Out of Ten	1	B2
One Martian Afternoon	1	B2
One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories: Right Pleasaunte To Relate In All Goodly Companie By Way Of Joyance And Jollity	104	B2
One Day's Courtship, and The Heralds of Fame	13	B2
Once Upon A Planet	1	B2
On to Pekin; or, Old Glory in China	35	B2
On the wings of fate	26	B2
On the red staircase	31	B2
On the mountain	13	B2
On the face of the flood	13	B2
On the dodge	1	B2
On the Tree Top	1	B2
On the Trail of Pontiac; Or, The Pioneer Boys of the Ohio	35	B2
On the Sweeny wire	1	B2
On the Stage--and Off: The Brief Career of a Would-Be Actor	18	B2
On the Plantation: A Story of a Georgia Boy's Adventures during the War	14	B2
On the Plains with Custer: The Western Life and Deeds of the Chief With the Yellow Hair, Under Whom Served Boy Bugler Ned Fletcher, When in the Troublous Years 1866–1876 the Fighting Seventh Cavalry Helped to Win Pioneer Kansas, Nebraska, and Dakota for White Civilization and Today's Peace	28	B2
On the Pampas; Or, The Young Settlers	36	B2
On the Iron at Big Cloud	15	B2
On the Heights: A Novel	130	B2
On the Edge of the Arctic; Or, An Aeroplane in Snowland	17	B2
On the Brink of a Chasm: A record of plot and passion	36	B2
On the Border with Andrew Jackson	18	B2
On a lark to the planets: A sequel to "The wonderful electric elephant"	16	B2
On a Torn-Away World; Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake	31	B2
On Your Mark! A Story of College Life and Athletics	28	B2
On With Torchy	19	B2
On Time; or, Bound to Get There	28	B2
On Secret Service: Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved by Government Agents	25	B2
On Patrol	1	B2
On Our Selection	27	B2
On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles	21	B2
On Foreign Service; Or, The Santa Cruz Revolution	1	B2
On Angels' Wings	26	B2