CEFR C1 · Advanced

Read Advanced Classics in English (C1)

14246 books graded at CEFR C1 (advanced) — 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 C1 books to read in English?

The best C1 books to read in English are well-known classics whose own language sits at that level — start with Wurra-Wurra, Where Deep Seas Moan and Vice in its Proper Shape: Or, The Wonderful and Melancholy Transformation of Several: Naughty Masters and Misses Into Those Contemptible Animals: Which They Most Resemble In Disposition.. Each is the complete book, labelled CEFR C1 (advanced), with tap-to-translate, narration and saved vocabulary, so you read a real story while building the English you actually meet in it.

14,246: books

CEFR C1 (Advanced) classics, page 49 of 297 — chapters and reading length
Title	Chapters	CEFR
The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley	25	C1
The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton	15	C1
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3: Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave: among the moors...	19	C1
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2: Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave: among the moors...	9	C1
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1: Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave: among the moors...	15	C1
The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton: 1902	16	C1
The Stowmarket Mystery; Or, A Legacy of Hate	33	C1
The Story of the White Mouse	1	C1
The Story of the Sun: New York, 1833-1918	25	C1
The Story of the Rock	11	C1
The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches	3	C1
The Story of the Glittering Plain: Which Has Been Also Called the Land of Living Men or the Acre of the Undying	23	C1
The Story of the Foss River Ranch: A Tale of the Northwest	29	C1
The Story of the Champions of the Round Table	7	C1
The Story of an Untold Love	26	C1
The Story of an Ostrich: An Allegory and Humorous Satire in Rhyme.	5	C1
The Story of an African Farm	30	C1
The Story of a Red Deer	13	C1
The Story of a Play: A Novel	26	C1
The Story of a Picture	1	C1
The Story of a New York House	6	C1
The Story of a Mine	16	C1
The Story of a Hare	13	C1
The Story of a Governess	53	C1
The Story of a Genius	23	C1
The Story of a Dewdrop	6	C1
The Story of a Country Town	38	C1
The Story of a Child	82	C1
The Story of Yvashka with the Bear's Ear	2	C1
The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser: A Romantic Novel	13	C1
The Story of Valentine and His Brother	44	C1
The Story of Tonty	24	C1
The Story of Tim	2	C1
The Story of Sonny Sahib	10	C1
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs	8	C1
The Story of Siegfried	23	C1
The Story of Rustem, and other Persian hero tales from Firdusi	24	C1
The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow	33	C1
The Story of Old Fort Loudon	16	C1
The Story of My Heart: An Autobiography	12	C1
The Story of Mary MacLane	65	C1
The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines	28	C1
The Story of Kennett	35	C1
The Story of Jack Ballister's Fortunes: Being the narrative of the adventures of a young gentleman of good family, who was kidnapped in the year 1719 and carried to the plantations of the continent of Virginia, where he fell in with that famous pirate Captain Edward Teach, or Blackbeard; of his escape from the pirates and the rescue of a young lady from out their hands	54	C1
The Story of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald: 1875	19	C1
The Story of Grettir the Strong	102	C1
The Story of Gombi	4	C1
The Story of Frithiof the Bold: 1875	16	C1