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Classic Recommendations

Because I love the classics (and vintage books in general), I've compiled a list that I, personally, have been able to read despite my dyslexic learning disabilities.

But before you dive in, I want to add that just because I was able to read them does not mean these books will be easier to read for everyone who is dyslexic. Everyone reads at their own pace and in their own way. And something that which comes easy for one will not come easy for another and vice versa.

However, I hope that this list will still help some of you to be able to read the classics or other vintage books out there.

I have added the Graded ELT readers versions at times because certain classics are impossible for me to read otherwise. At first, I felt ashamed and embarrassed to read graded readers or even children's versions which the latter I'd considered a "baby" version but I read an article once about dyslexic readers that changed my opinion. It said even if you cannot read the original, to be able to read some type of the classic was better than to never read it at all. And that's true. It may be a bit shorter or watered down but at least you're able to read a version of it. That's definitely better than never at all.

With that being said, I chose the closest possible version to the original that I could find that also had the easiest text to read which ended up being Penguin Readers, Pearson English Readers, & Oxford Bookworms. They are specially-designed editions of classics for non-English speaking adults to help them learn the language. Because they use a more modern-style text, I've found them to be immensely easier to read. Lastly, I've added Shakespeare Made Easy which I also found much easier to read.

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I. The Anne of Green Gables series by L. M. Montgomery

II. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

III. The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bedier

IV. Emma by Jane Austen (Penguin Readers: Level 4)

V. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Penguin Readers: Level 4)

VI. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (Penguin Readers: Level 6)

VII. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (+ sequel Twenty Years Later)

VIII. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Penguin Readers: Level 6)

IX. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (Penguin Readers: Level 6)

X. Persuasion by Jane Austen (Oxford Bookworms: Stage 4)

XI. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (Penguin Readers: Level 5)

XII. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (Penguin Readers: Level 5)

XIII. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Pearson English Readers: Level 4 - Part 1 & 2)

XIX. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (Pearson English Readers: Level 5)

XX. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (Pearson English Readers: Level 6)

XXI. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Penguin Readers: Level 5)

XXII. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Penguin Readers: Level 5)

XXIII. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Penguin Readers: Level 5)

XXIV. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (Penguin Readers: Level 6)

XXV. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (Penguin Readers: Level 7)

XXVI. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Oxford Bookworms: Stage 5)

XXVII. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Penguin Readers: Level 5)

XXVIII. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (Penguin Readers: Level 6)

XXIX. Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore (Oxford Bookworms: Stage 4)

XXXX. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

XXXXI. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (Shakespeare Made Easy)

XXXXII. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

XXXXIII. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

XXXXIV. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (+sequel)

XXXXV. Winnie the Pooh series by A. A. Milne

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That's it for now but if I find more classics to read, I'll be sure to add them to the list. I hope you find something from this list that you enjoy reading! <3