📚 100 English Books Ranked by Difficulty (Easy → Hard)

This list includes books you’ve mentioned, along with additional recommendations based on your preferred genres (fantasy, mystery, supernatural elements, emotional/philosophical depth, and minimal romance). It’s arranged from the easiest to the most challenging, covering a total of 100 books.

🟢 Easy (Books 1–25)

Goosebumps – R.L. Stine

Magic Tree House (select titles) – Mary Pope Osborne

Fablehaven – Brandon Mull

Cirque du Freak – Darren Shan

Percy Jackson and the Olympians – Rick Riordan

Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer

Skulduggery Pleasant – Derek Landy

The Giver – Lois Lowry

Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White

Coraline – Neil Gaiman

Holes – Louis Sachar

The Tale of Despereaux – Kate DiCamillo

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane – Kate DiCamillo

A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness

Matilda – Roald Dahl

The BFG – Roald Dahl

Because of Winn-Dixie – Kate DiCamillo

The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman

Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Book 1) – Jeff Kinney

The Mysterious Benedict Society – Trenton Lee Stewart

Wonder – R.J. Palacio

The Little Prince (English translation) – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Iron Trial – Holly Black & Cassandra Clare

The Bad Beginning (Series of Unfortunate Events) – Lemony Snicket

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis

🟡 Intermediate (Books 26–60)

They Both Die at the End – Adam Silvera

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs

The School for Good and Evil – Soman Chainani

Scythe – Neal Shusterman

Eragon – Christopher Paolini

Inkheart – Cornelia Funke

The Girl Who Drank the Moon – Kelly Barnhill

Stardust – Neil Gaiman

The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman

Shatter Me – Tahereh Mafi

The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials) – Philip Pullman

A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L'Engle

City of Ember – Jeanne DuPrau

Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman

The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson) – Rick Riordan

The House with a Clock in Its Walls – John Bellairs

Amari and the Night Brothers – B.B. Alston

The Peculiar – Stefan Bachmann

The Night Gardener – Jonathan Auxier

Howl’s Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones

The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

City of Ghosts – Victoria Schwab

The Book Thief – Markus Zusak

The Thief of Always – Clive Barker

The Ants – Bernard Werber

The Magicians – Lev Grossman

The Time Machine – H.G. Wells

The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells

Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

Tuck Everlasting – Natalie Babbitt

Bridge to Terabithia – Katherine Paterson

Coraline – Neil Gaiman

The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman

The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin

🔴 Advanced (Books 61–100)

The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – R.L. Stevenson

The Castle – Franz Kafka

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World – Haruki Murakami

Animal Farm – George Orwell

The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger

Lord of the Flies – William Golding

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon

The Secret History – Donna Tartt

The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt

The Midnight Library – Matt Haig

The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern

The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke

The Once and Future King – T.H. White

The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin

Dune – Frank Herbert

The Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss

The Wise Man’s Fear – Patrick Rothfuss

Mistborn (Book 1) – Brandon Sanderson

Elantris – Brandon Sanderson

The Way of Kings – Brandon Sanderson

The Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkien

Dracula – Bram Stoker

Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

1984 – George Orwell

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky (English translation)

The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Trial – Franz Kafka

Ulysses – James Joyce

The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner

One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Moby-♥♥♥♥ – Herman Melville

Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace