Hundreds of suitable readers are available, so you have a wide choice and everyone can find something they like.

Start by taking a look at some of the readers to see the available variety. Most of these are available in the PUK library on the 3rd floor, usually in 洋書 sections around 428~, though there are a few in the 和書 section, and also a few in the first row of the 洋書 section. There are also a few books with CDs and cassettes in the Language Center Tape Library.

A Level One book (i.e. Oxford Bookworms Stage 1, or Cambridge English Readers Level 1) is considered the basic graded reader for readers without so much experience. All students should read at least 10 of these (though a few advanced students may find these too easy and want to move up to Level 2 or 3 immediately). After this it should be quite easy to move up to Level 2, and then gradually up to Level 6 before graduating.

Because most high school students have little experience of reading whole books in English, most students find that they are quite slow, and some students find the Level One books a little difficult to finish within an hour. Therefore, I recommend that most students start by reading extremely easy books, Below Level One. It is possible to read these in a very short time (maybe 5-15 minutes), and this helps you to read faster. The important thing with these very easy books is to read many of them (I suggest 5 or more a week).

Because there are so many Below Level One books, you could spend most of your first semester reading these, trying to get your speed up to around 130 words per minute. This will help you when you move up to Level One.

The Lists page shows some albums with details of many books in different categories.

You can also find lists of books to explore here and here.