Accessible Reads for Adults

Book list for adults wanting to improve their reading skills and those with English as a second language

Updated December 8, 2023
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The old curiosity shop
Dickens, Charles
Paper Book
Little Nell and her grandfather are left destitute when the evil Quilp seizes their Old Curiosity Shop in payment for their overdue debts.
Strangers on a train
Nation, Michael.
Paper Book
"Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb...We will likely be reading Patricia Highsmith for the next one hundred years." --Paula Hawkins Just in time for the centennial celebration of groundbreaking noir fiction writer Patricia Highsmith comes a reissue...
Peril at End House
Christie, Agatha
Audiobook
In the Agatha Christie classic Peril at End House, a young woman who has recently survived a series of very close calls appears to be the target of a dedicated killer--and it's up to Hercule Poirot to save her life. On holiday on the Cornish Riviera, Hercule Poirot is alarmed to hear...
The pearl
Steinbeck, John
Paper Book
"There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon."   A Penguin Classic  One of Steinbeck's most taught works, The Pearl is the story of the Mexican diver Kino, whose discovery of a magnificent pearl from the Gulf beds means the promise of a...

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