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Free Spanish books for people learning Spanish
40 books in Spanish, 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 9 books
Under fifty thousand words. The first book you finish in a language is worth more than three you start.
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Suma y narracion de los Incas, que los indios llamaron Capaccuna, que fueron señores de la ciudad del Cuzco y de todo lo á ella subjeto
About 5 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Descripcion é historia del castillo de la aljafería: sito extramuros de la ciudad de Zaragoza
About 6 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Antonio Azorín: pequeño libro en que se habla de la vida de este peregrino señor
About 6 hours at a learner’s pace.
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A full novel 20 books
The length most novels actually are. A few weeks at twenty minutes a day.
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La transformación de las razas en América
About 7 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Thespis (novelas cortas y cuentos)
About 7 hours at a learner’s pace.
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El libro de las mil noches y una noche; t. 1
About 9 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Andanzas y visiones españolas
About 10 hours at a learner’s pace.
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La cuerda del ahorcado: Últimas aventuras de Rocambole: I El Loco de Bedlam
About 10 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Insolación y Morriña (Dos historias amorosas)
About 11 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Longer 11 books
Worth it once a book from the band above has stopped feeling like work.
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Historia de la literatura y del arte dramático en España, tomo II
About 14 hours at a learner’s pace.
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El Filibusterismo (Continuación del Noli me tángere)
About 14 hours at a learner’s pace.
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El libro de las tierras vírgenes
About 18 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Noli me tángere: Novela Tagala, Edición completa con notas de R. Sempau
About 19 hours at a learner’s pace.
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