Dyslexia Friendly Recommendations
Dyslexia-Friendly Book Recommendations (Updated)
Source Dataset: Top 1000 Project Gutenberg downloads.
Updated Filtering Criteria:
- Dyslexia-Friendly Score > 48
- Flesch-Kincaid Grade between 6 and 12
- Dialogue % ≥ 0.30
- Lexical Diversity between 0.18 and 0.40
- Descriptive Density Filter applied to improve visualization and content accessibility
Outcome: 79 books selected across multiple genres,
including an “Other” category for books that were not clearly categorized but remain interesting candidates.
Purpose: To provide inclusive, engaging, and appropriately challenging books for young adult and adult readers.
Children’s Literature
Total Books: 5
Avg DF Score: 52.44 |
Avg FK Grade: 6.83 |
Avg Dialogue %: 0.41 |
Avg Lexical Diversity: 0.29
Top 3 Recommended Books
- A Christmas Carol in Prose Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Dickens, Charles (DF 49.7, FK 7.9)
- The Secret Garden by Burnett, Frances Hodgson (DF 52.9, FK 6.5)
- The Adventures of Pinocchio by Collodi, Carlo (DF 52.5, FK 6.8)
Detective & Mystery
Total Books: 7
Avg DF Score: 51.78 |
Avg FK Grade: 7.74 |
Avg Dialogue %: 0.58 |
Avg Lexical Diversity: 0.28
Top 3 Recommended Books
- Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (DF 51.5, FK 8.0)
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Christie, Agatha (DF 54.0, FK 7.3)
- The Sign of the Four by Doyle, Arthur Conan (DF 50.5, FK 7.8)
Didactic Fiction
Total Books: 1
Avg DF Score: 54.73 |
Avg FK Grade: 6.89 |
Avg Dialogue %: 0.50 |
Avg Lexical Diversity: 0.28
Top 3 Recommended Books
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde, Oscar (DF 54.7, FK 6.9)
Fantasy
Total Books: 3
Avg DF Score: 51.45 |
Avg FK Grade: 7.43 |
Avg Dialogue %: 0.39 |
Avg Lexical Diversity: 0.28
Top 3 Recommended Books
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) (DF 46.5, FK 8.4)
- The Slayer of Souls by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William) (DF 51.6, FK 7.8)
- Wizard by Janifer, Laurence M. (DF 56.3, FK 6.1)
Historical Fiction
Total Books: 1
Avg DF Score: 48.19 |
Avg FK Grade: 8.93 |
Avg Dialogue %: 0.32 |
Avg Lexical Diversity: 0.37
Top 3 Recommended Books
- A Passage to India by E.M. Forster (DF 48.2, FK 8.9)
Horror / Gothic
Total Books: 1
Avg DF Score: 50.66 |
Avg FK Grade: 7.92 |
Avg Dialogue %: 0.38 |
Avg Lexical Diversity: 0.29
Top 3 Recommended Books
- The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux, Gaston (DF 50.7, FK 7.9)
Humorous Stories
Total Books: 3
Avg DF Score: 52.31 |
Avg FK Grade: 7.51 |
Avg Dialogue %: 0.37 |
Avg Lexical Diversity: 0.34
Top 3 Recommended Books
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark (DF 49.4, FK 8.1)
- A Room with a View by Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan) (DF 54.0, FK 7.1)
- Once Aboard the Lugger– The History of George and his Mary by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) (DF 53.5, FK 7.4)
Other
Total Books: 1
Avg DF Score: 48.28 |
Avg FK Grade: 8.58 |
Avg Dialogue %: 0.48 |
Avg Lexical Diversity: 0.32
Top 3 Recommended Books
- Kate plus 10 by Edgar Wallace (DF 48.3, FK 8.6)
Poetry
Total Books: 2
Avg DF Score: 47.29 |
Avg FK Grade: 7.92 |
Avg Dialogue %: 0.54 |
Avg Lexical Diversity: 0.27
Top 3 Recommended Books
- A Shropshire Lad by Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward) (DF 47.9, FK 7.1)
- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by Blake, William (DF 46.7, FK 8.8)
Psychological Fiction
Total Books: 6
Avg DF Score: 49.35 |
Avg FK Grade: 8.43 |
Avg Dialogue %: 0.48 |
Avg Lexical Diversity: 0.23
Top 3 Recommended Books
- Heart of Darkness by Conrad, Joseph (DF 49.8, FK 8.2)
- The Yellow Wallpaper by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (DF 51.5, FK 7.0)
- The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate (DF 51.0, FK 8.2)
Romance / Love
Total Books: 4
Avg DF Score: 51.48 |
Avg FK Grade: 8.11 |
Avg Dialogue %: 0.33 |
Avg Lexical Diversity: 0.31
Top 3 Recommended Books
- This Side of Paradise by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) (DF 48.7, FK 9.0)
- The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance by Malet, Lucas (DF 46.5, FK 10.1)
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence (DF 56.1, FK 6.2)
Science Fiction
Total Books: 39
Avg DF Score: 53.47 |
Avg FK Grade: 7.54 |
Avg Dialogue %: 0.43 |
Avg Lexical Diversity: 0.27
Top 3 Recommended Books
- 2 B R 0 2 B by Vonnegut, Kurt (DF 56.7, FK 6.4)
- The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) (DF 51.6, FK 7.9)
- The Big Trip Up Yonder by Vonnegut, Kurt (DF 49.0, FK 8.5)
Short Stories
Total Books: 1
Avg DF Score: 53.88 |
Avg FK Grade: 8.38 |
Avg Dialogue %: 0.44 |
Avg Lexical Diversity: 0.38
Top 3 Recommended Books
- The Doorway by Smith, Evelyn E. (DF 53.9, FK 8.4)
Western
Total Books: 1
Avg DF Score: 51.98 |
Avg FK Grade: 7.74 |
Avg Dialogue %: 0.40 |
Avg Lexical Diversity: 0.28
Top 3 Recommended Books
- The Crux: A Novel by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (DF 52.0, FK 7.7)
Young Adult Fiction
Total Books: 4
Avg DF Score: 52.29 |
Avg FK Grade: 7.36 |
Avg Dialogue %: 0.50 |
Avg Lexical Diversity: 0.30
Top 3 Recommended Books
- Anne of Green Gables by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) (DF 50.2, FK 7.9)
- Anne of the Island by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) (DF 52.7, FK 7.3)
- Anne of Avonlea by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) (DF 52.0, FK 7.5)
