Books sorted by lexile levels
"Within a range from 100L below to 50L above his or her Lexile measure, a reader is expected to comprehend the text well enough to understand it, while still experiencing some reading challenge."
(HP alternatives)
Magic Tree House by Mary Pope Osborne, Natalie Pope Boyce (Lexile Levels 230 - 590)
Goosebumps Original Series by R. L. Stine (Lexile Levels 280 - 640)
Judy Moody by Megan McDonald (Lexile Levels 390 - 600)
Artemis Fowl Graphic Novels by Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin (Lexile Levels estimated 535 - 635)
Hardy Boys are the Clues Brothers by Franklin W. Dixon (Lexile Levels 330 - 580)
Hardy Boys Secret Files by Franklin W. Dixon (Lexile Levels 510 - 540)
Geronimo Stilton (Lexile Levels 500 - 720)
Enid Blyton
The Famous Five 650 - 700
Alex Rider 670 - 770
Stormbreaker 670
Percy Jackson & the Olympians by Rick Riordan (Lexile Levels 590 - 740)
Nancy Drew Girl Detective by Carolyn Keene (Lexile Levels 560 - 820)
Roald Dahl Classics by Roald Dahl (Lexile Levels 450 - 870)
Roald Dahl Short Stories by Roald Dahl (Lexile Levels 410 - 980)
Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black, Tony DiTerlizzi (Lexile Levels 560 - 690)
Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None 570
The Murder on the Links: A Hercule Poirot ...730
A Murder Is Announced 740
The ABC. Murders 740
Murder on the Orient Express 640
Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer (Lexile Levels 670 - 720)
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep -- 660
Graham Greene, Brighton Rock -- 680
Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory -- 710
Bambi by Felix Salten 690 (translated)
Where the Red Fern Grows 700
The Little Prince 710
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (Lexile Levels 600 - 930)
Bartimaeus by Jonathan Stroud (Lexile Levels 730 - 820)
Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis (Lexile Levels 790 - 970)
E.B. White Classics by E. B. White (Lexile Levels 680 - 920)
Redwall by Brian Jacques (Lexile Levels 600 - 1010)
Guardians of Ga'Hoole by Kathryn Lasky (Lexile Levels 730 - 960)
I, Robot 820
Pinocchio 840
The Da Vinci Code 850
Stephen King
Cujo 830
The Stand 840
Bag Of Bones 890
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 850
To Kill A Mockingbird 870
Wuthering Heights 880
The Ox-Bow Incident 890
Fahrenheit 451 890
Jane Eyre 890
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (Lexile Levels 890 - 950)
Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (Lexile Levels 810 - 920)
Tales from the Brothers Grimm 900
Hans Christian Andersen Tales 950
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 960
Anne of Green Gables 990
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling, (Lexile Levels 880 - 1030)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1020
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne 1070 (translated)
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (Lexile Levels 1000 - 1370)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 950
Tom Sawyer, Detective 700
The Brothers Karamazov 970
White Fang 970
Riders of the Purple Sage by Grey, Zane 1000
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas 1000
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 1010 (English translation - "dense")
23334 unique words
Notre-Dame de Paris 1170
Madame Bovary (Engl. tr.) 1030
Treasure Island 1070
Jungle Book 1080
The Red and the Black (Engl. tr.) 1080
The Count of Monte Cristo (Engl. tr.) 1080
16110 unique words ("dense")
War and Peace 1120
Around 20k unique words
Plato's Parmenides 1140
The Tale of Genji (Engl. tr.) 1190
Moby Dick 1220
17227 unique words ("dense")
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (tr.) 1290
Little Women 1300
Gulliver's Travels 1330
Moll Flanders
Lexile score: 1390
Unique words:approx. 6100
One of the
least vocabulary dense books in the Project Gutenberg database (see below)
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Lexile score: 1340
Unique words: approx 26,000
High vocabulary density. This is one of the most vocabulary dense books in the Project Gutenberg database.
See:
http://www.mine-control.com/zack/guttenberg/Also fun to listen to:
http://www.litteratureaudio.com/livres- ... s-rabelaisDon Quixote 1410
"Dense" in translation: 16160 unique words
See also
Fiction Text Complexity Ranking
Appendix 2: Texts Ranked by Reading Complexity Score
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... tion_Texts