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title: "Chinese Graded Readers with Pinyin: Journey to the West and More"
description: "Short Chinese graded readers for HSK 2 to 6, in paperback and Kindle: Journey to the West retold at three levels, Grandma’s Notebook and Friday Again, with free audio in the Library."
canonical: "https://mandarinthewild.com/books"
author: "Mandarin The Wild"
---

Books

# Chinese graded readers

Short books for HSK 2 to HSK 6, each checked word by word, with pinyin and the English. Read them free in the Library with audio in two voices and every word tappable: all of Journey to the West, and chapter 1 of the others.

## 西游记 Journey to the West

- ![Journey to the West in Easy Chinese, Book 1 · The Monkey King](https://mandarinthewild.com/book-covers/journey-west-1-320.webp)

### Book 1 · The Monkey King

Beginner · about HSK 3

On Amazon soon

[Read it free](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/monkey-king-born-journey-to-the-west-easy-chinese-1)

- ![Journey to the West in Easy Chinese, Book 2 · The Journey Begins](https://mandarinthewild.com/book-covers/journey-west-2-320.webp)

### Book 2 · The Journey Begins

Beginner · about HSK 3

On Amazon soon

[Read it free](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/the-monk-sets-out-journey-to-the-west-easy-chinese-9)

- ![Journey to the West in Intermediate Chinese, Book 1 · The Monkey King](https://mandarinthewild.com/book-covers/journey-west-intermediate-1-320.webp)

### Book 1 · The Monkey King

Intermediate · about HSK 4–5

On Amazon soon

[Read it free](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/monkey-king-born-journey-to-the-west-intermediate-chinese-1)

- ![Journey to the West in Intermediate Chinese, Book 2 · The Journey Begins](https://mandarinthewild.com/book-covers/journey-west-intermediate-2-320.webp)

### Book 2 · The Journey Begins

Intermediate · about HSK 4–5

On Amazon soon

[Read it free](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/the-monk-sets-out-journey-to-the-west-intermediate-chinese-9)

- ![Journey to the West in Advanced Chinese, Book 1 · The Monkey King](https://mandarinthewild.com/book-covers/journey-west-advanced-1-320.webp)

### Book 1 · The Monkey King

Advanced · HSK 6 and up

On Amazon soon

[Read it free](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/monkey-king-born-journey-to-the-west-advanced-chinese-1)

- ![Journey to the West in Advanced Chinese, Book 2 · The Journey Begins](https://mandarinthewild.com/book-covers/journey-west-advanced-2-320.webp)

### Book 2 · The Journey Begins

Advanced · HSK 6 and up

On Amazon soon

[Read it free](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/the-monk-sets-out-journey-to-the-west-advanced-chinese-9)

## 外婆的本子 Grandma's Notebook

Yuan is seventeen, grew up in Canada and speaks slow, careful Chinese. He spends the summer with his grandmother in a small river town, and she shows him her small blue notebook: forty years of words heard on her train routes, one word under a little drawing on each page. One by one, Yuan goes to find the pages: the wet market, the bun shop downstairs, a bamboo raft on the Li River, the tea hills of Hangzhou, and the young man in the last drawing.

- ![Grandma's Notebook, Book 1](https://mandarinthewild.com/book-covers/grandmas-notebook-1-320.webp)

### Book 1

Level 3 · about HSK 3

On Amazon soon

[Read chapter 1 free](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/grandmas-notebook-downstairs-part-1)

- ![Grandma's Notebook, Book 2](https://mandarinthewild.com/book-covers/grandmas-notebook-2-320.webp)

### Book 2

Level 4 · about HSK 4

On Amazon soon

[Read chapter 1 free](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/grandmas-notebook-book-2-shanghai-lane-part-1)

## 又是星期五 Friday Again

Xiaoxia works the early shift in a tiny coffee shop by a bus stop in Shanghai. Every morning at seven her very fat cat sits on her face, the rain starts, Mum calls at 7:30 and Xiaoxia doesn't answer. And every morning it is Friday again. To reach Saturday, she has to work out what this Friday wants from her.

- ![Friday Again, Book 1](https://mandarinthewild.com/book-covers/friday-again-1-320.webp)

### Book 1

Level 2 · about HSK 2

On Amazon soon

[Read chapter 1 free](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/friday-again-easy-chinese-time-loop-story-1)