Exciting English Stories for Adult Learners

Welcome to Easy English Stories! Read FUN stories at a beginner-intermediate level.

Easy ●○○○○ Hard
2,835 words

“Love in 1860”
Romance
Grace falls off a mountain in 2025. She wakes up in 1860. A handsome man helps her. But their love must be a secret. Will she stay in 1860 with him?

Easy ●●○○○ Hard
3,106 words

“See the World”
Science fiction

Neil is a doctor. He is using a new technology: “lenses.” He can see diseases with the lenses. Will the lenses help everyone, or can they be harmful?

Easy ●●●○○ Hard
9,885 words

“The Cold”
Mystery
Many people are dying. Their bodies appear outside, in the cold. No one knows why they are dying, but Ari must find the reason.

Easy ●○○○○ Hard
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“In the Woods”
Fantasy
Andrew makes videos about monsters. The videos are not real… Or are they real?

Easy ●●○○○ Hard

Easy ●●●○○ Hard



A student in the eightieth percentile reads books for 14.2 minutes per day. This adds up to 1,146,000 words per year.

-Donalyn Miller, from “Reading in the Wild

A word after a word after a word is power.

-Margaret Atwood