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Free Portuguese books for people learning Portuguese
40 books in Portuguese, all public domain and free to download as EPUB from Project Gutenberg. Each one is measured from its own text — sentence length, and how much of it is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words.
These shelves carry no CEFR level. A CEFR-graded wordlist exists for English and is used on the English shelf; no equivalent is available for Portuguese, and inventing one from word frequency would be a number that looks precise and means nothing. What is shown here is measured — how, exactly.
Books on this shelf
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Dom Casmurro
Gentle 9 h
Fiction
78.1% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 9 h at a learner’s pace.
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Flores do Campo
Gentle 3 h
Fiction
77.6% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 3 h at a learner’s pace.
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Saudades: história de menina e moça
Gentle 3 h
Fiction Dialogue-heavy
81.3% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 3 h at a learner’s pace.
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Transviado
Gentle 10 h
Romance
76.4% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 10 h at a learner’s pace.
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Visitas ao Santissimo Sacramento e a Maria Santissima para todos os dias do mez
Gentle 6 h
Fiction
77.4% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 6 h at a learner’s pace.
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Os Pobres: Precedido de uma Carta-Prefacio de Guerra Junqueiro
Gentle 6 h
Fiction
75.9% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 6 h at a learner’s pace.
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As Minas de Salomão
Gentle 7 h
Adventure
74.0% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 7 h at a learner’s pace.
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Memorias Posthumas de Braz Cubas
Gentle 8 h
Fiction
75.2% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 8 h at a learner’s pace.
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O Olho de Vidro
Gentle 6 h
Historical
74.6% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 6 h at a learner’s pace.
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Petronio: Peça livremente extrahida do romance Quo Vadis de Henryk Sienkiewicz
Gentle 2 h
Historical
73.3% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 2 h at a learner’s pace.
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Os Bravos do Mindello: Romance Historico
Steady 6 h
Historical
73.4% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 6 h at a learner’s pace.
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Chronica de El-Rei D. Affonso V (Vol. I)
Steady 6 h
Fiction
78.2% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 6 h at a learner’s pace.
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Raios de extincta luz: poesias ineditas (1859-1863)
Steady 3 h
Fiction
73.2% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 3 h at a learner’s pace.
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Contos d'Aldeia
Steady 3 h
Fiction
72.6% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 3 h at a learner’s pace.
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A Lenda da Meia-Noite
Steady 6 h
Romance Dialogue-heavy
72.6% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 6 h at a learner’s pace.
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Portugal e Brazil: emigração e colonisação
Steady 15 h
Fiction Dialogue-heavy
74.3% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 15 h at a learner’s pace.
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Nova Sapho: Tragedia Extranha
Steady 6 h
Fiction
71.4% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 6 h at a learner’s pace.
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Novelas do Minho
Stretching 6 h
Fiction
71.4% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 6 h at a learner’s pace.
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A Casa dos Fantasmas - Volume II: Episodio do Tempo dos Francezes
Stretching 6 h
Historical
71.4% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 6 h 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
Stretching 4 h
Fiction
74.3% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 4 h at a learner’s pace.
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Infelizes: Historias Vividas
Stretching 2 h
Fiction
71.8% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 2 h at a learner’s pace.
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Os deputados brasileiros nas Côrtes Geraes de 1821
Stretching 13 h
Fiction
72.6% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 13 h at a learner’s pace.
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Da terra à lua, viagem directa em 97 horas e 20 minutos
Stretching 8 h
Science fiction
72.5% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 8 h at a learner’s pace.
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A Illustre Casa de Ramires
Stretching 14 h
Fiction
70.2% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 14 h at a learner’s pace.
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Claridades do sul
Stretching 3 h
Fiction
70.1% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 3 h at a learner’s pace.
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Poesias
Stretching 4 h
Fiction
69.5% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 4 h at a learner’s pace.
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A Morte Vence
Stretching 8 h
Fiction
69.5% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 8 h at a learner’s pace.
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A Revolução Portugueza: O 5 de Outubro (Lisboa 1910)
Stretching 7 h
Fiction
71.3% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 7 h at a learner’s pace.
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Principios e questões de philosophia politica (Vol. 1 of 2)
Stretching 6 h
Fiction
70.8% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 6 h at a learner’s pace.
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Aves Migradoras
Demanding 7 h
Fiction
68.5% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 7 h at a learner’s pace.
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Alguns homens do meu tempo: impressões litterarias
Demanding 6 h
Biography
72.4% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 6 h at a learner’s pace.
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Memoria sobre a cultura, e productos da cana de assucar
Demanding 3 h
Fiction
72.8% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 3 h at a learner’s pace.
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A correspondência de Fradique Mendes: memórias e notas
Demanding 7 h
Fiction Dialogue-heavy
69.7% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 7 h at a learner’s pace.
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Pátria
Demanding 4 h
Fiction
66.6% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 4 h at a learner’s pace.
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A Velhice do Padre Eterno
Demanding 3 h
Fiction
67.5% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 3 h at a learner’s pace.
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Viriatho: Narrativa epo-historica
Demanding 8 h
Historical
69.5% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 8 h at a learner’s pace.
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A Lucta Civil Brazileira e o Sebastianismo Portuguez
Demanding 3 h
Fiction
70.6% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 3 h at a learner’s pace.
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Paisagens da China e do Japão
Demanding 5 h
Fiction
68.3% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 5 h at a learner’s pace.
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Os Lusíadas
Demanding 7 h
Fiction Dialogue-heavy
68.7% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 7 h at a learner’s pace.
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Amor Crioulo: vida argentina
Demanding 10 h
Fiction
62.6% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Portuguese words. About 10 h at a learner’s pace.
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