English folk tales
Ten tales collected by Joseph Jacobs in 1890, in the original text, not retold, not simplified. They sit at the same level as the second half of the 30-day plan, so this is a shelf you can walk onto, not climb up to.
Research on extensive reading puts the point where vocabulary measurably grows at around 36,000 words of input. The 30-day plan gets you to 27,200. The first seven tales here add 10,288 more and carry you past it. The last three are longer, two to four thousand words each, and are the step up toward the next level.
The seven that get you there
Shortest first, about the length of the stories you finished on day 30. Tap a book to read.
Three longer ones, when you are ready
Two to four times the length, with more people to keep track of. This is what the next level reads like.
Why the original text
These are the words people actually told these stories in. Once you can read them, you can read a book.
Old words and country words are exactly what the dictionary is for. Tap one and it joins your vocabulary list.
Four questions after each tale, so you find out whether you followed it or only think you did.
Save what you read
An account keeps the words you tap and the tales you finish, on every device, and tells you the day the next shelf opens.
Finished this shelf?
You do not have to move up to keep going. These shelves are the same difficulty and share no texts with this one, so there is nothing here you have already read.
About 36,000 words of reading at this level is where words start repeating often enough to stick. That is a floor rather than a limit: its 4 shelves hold 55,749, and reading all of them is a perfectly good idea.
Also worth a look: Ghost stories by level (the Halloween collection, A1 to C1).
First short stories: stories with an author behind them, a different writer every time. It is open whenever you are ready.
Go up to Classic short stories