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Free Portuguese books for people learning Portuguese
40 books in Portuguese, all public domain and all free to download as EPUB from Project Gutenberg. Sorted by length rather than by difficulty: Gutenberg publishes no reading-ease figure, and the one used on the English shelf is tuned to English, so quoting it here would be a number that looks precise and means nothing.
Length is the thing that actually stops people, so start shorter than you think you need — coverage matters more than ambition. Word counts are estimated from each book’s plain-text size.
Short enough to finish 16 books
Under fifty thousand words. The first book you finish in a language is worth more than three you start.
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Petronio: Peça livremente extrahida do romance Quo Vadis de Henryk Sienkiewicz
About 3 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Raios de extincta luz: poesias ineditas (1859-1863)
About 3 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Saudades: história de menina e moça
About 4 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Memoria sobre a cultura, e productos da cana de assucar
About 4 hours at a learner’s pace.
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A Lucta Civil Brazileira e o Sebastianismo Portuguez
About 4 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Indice chronologico dos factos mais notaveis da Historia do Brasil: desde seu descobrimento em 1500 até 1849
About 5 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Chronica de El-Rei D. Affonso V (Vol. I)
About 6 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Os Pobres: Precedido de uma Carta-Prefacio de Guerra Junqueiro
About 6 hours at a learner’s pace.
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A full novel 21 books
The length most novels actually are. A few weeks at twenty minutes a day.
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A Casa dos Fantasmas - Volume II: Episodio do Tempo dos Francezes
About 6 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Visitas ao Santissimo Sacramento e a Maria Santissima para todos os dias do mez
About 7 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Os Bravos do Mindello: Romance Historico
About 7 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Alguns homens do meu tempo: impressões litterarias
About 7 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Principios e questões de philosophia politica (Vol. 1 of 2)
About 7 hours at a learner’s pace.
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A correspondência de Fradique Mendes: memórias e notas
About 8 hours at a learner’s pace.
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A Revolução Portugueza: O 5 de Outubro (Lisboa 1910)
About 8 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Da terra à lua, viagem directa em 97 horas e 20 minutos
About 8 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Memorias Posthumas de Braz Cubas
About 9 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Viriatho: Narrativa epo-historica
About 9 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Longer 3 books
Worth it once a book from the band above has stopped feeling like work.
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Os deputados brasileiros nas Côrtes Geraes de 1821
About 15 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Portugal e Brazil: emigração e colonisação
About 17 hours at a learner’s pace.
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