Discover literature to read in Lithuanian at your level

We have assessed 29 books in Lithuanian literature for vocabulary, grammar and other factors. Find all the results of our analysis and read the literature for free here!

Lithuanian books difficulty ranking for learners

Below you can see our list of Lithuanian books evaluated for difficulty. The scores range from 1 - 100, and the higher the score the higher the difficulty. Click on any column to sort, or click on the title of any text to open a more detailed analysis. You can also use the menu on the top to navigate to our other rankings. If you want to know more about what these criteria mean, scroll down. There is also a short Lithuanian texts difficulty index available.

No. Title Author Length (words) Grammar score Vocabulary score Overall score Detailed analysis Read online Interlinear
1 Per pasaulį keliauja žmogus Bernardas Brazdžionis 27,205 49 66 5858% Open
2 Skirgaila Vincas Krėvė 31,378 65 51 5858% Open
3 Kryžiai Vincas Ramonas 71,842 65 56 6161% Open
4 Aukštųjų Šimonių likimas Ieva Simonaitytė 75,814 65 59 6262% Open
5 Baltaragio malūnas arba kas dėjosi anuo metu Paudruvės krašte Kazys Boruta 48,567 66 59 6363% Open
6 Kasdienės istorijos Petras Cvirka 25,605 63 69 6666% Open
7 Šiaudinėj pastogėj Vincas Krėvė 50,995 68 65 6767% Open
8 Legendos. Apsakymai. Apysaka Antanas Vienuolis 128,684 73 67 7070% Open
9 Liūdna pasaka Jonas Biliūnas 34,044 73 66 7070% OpenBuy Now
10 Laimingasis - tai aš Juozas Grušas 56,907 84 57 7171% Open
11 Kuprelis Ignas Šeinius 32,824 81 62 7272% Open
12 Laisvos valandos. Satyros Vincas Kudirka 28,555 79 64 7272% Open
13 Valentina Antanas Vaičiulaitis 32,235 76 70 7373% Open
14 Varnos prie plento Antanas Miškinis 7,635 80 66 7373% Open
15 Artumas Janina Degutytė 5,724 66 81 7474% Open
16 Metai Kristijonas Donelaitis 20,168 60 90 7575% Open
17 Giesmė apie stumbrą Mikalojus Husovianas 7,914 88 64 7676% Open
18 Miškais ateina ruduo Marius Katiliškis 100,221 76 75 7676% Open
19 Sename Dvare Šatrijos Ragana 41,565 81 71 7676% Open
20 Dievų miškas Balys Sruoga 86,219 89 64 7777% Open
21 Novelės Jurgis Savickis 113,512 85 71 7878% Open
22 Poezija Jurgis Baltrušaitis 16,081 73 82 7878% Open
23 Ramybės kalva Antanas Ramonas 42,910 90 68 7979% Open
24 Priešaušrio vieškeliai Bronius Radzevičius 280,771 90 70 8080% Open
25 Balta drobulė Antanas Škėma 36,574 90 75 8383% Open
26 MANO GYVENIMO KRONIKA IR NERVŲ LIGOS ISTORIJA, 1851-1922 Jonas Basanavičius 86,892 90 75 8383% Open
27 Būdas senovės lietuvių, kalnėnų ir žemaičių Simonas Daukantas 58,564 89 79 8484% Open
28 Ir pražuvo kaip sapnas Lazdynų Pelėda 25,252 89 79 8484% Open
29 Palangos Juzė Motiejus Valančius 14,423 89 89 8989% Open

How to use this ranking

The ranking above provides you with a rough analysis of the grammatical, vocabulary and overall difficulty of the works, and it also includes the links to find out more, or even to read the work. It works as follows:

  • title is not only the official name of the work, but also, by clicking on it, you can open a more detailed analysis;
  • author, length are also pretty self-explanatory;
  • grammar score is a score computed by calculating and combining various indexes (ARI, CLI, MTLD, HDD, Yule's I - you can find out more about them by clicking through to the more detailed analysis part on any of the titles);
  • vocabulary score is a score based on the frequency of use of words in the text (much more analysis on it is also provided if you click through to the more-detailed analysis);
  • overall score is just a grammar and vocabulary score averaged out, although sometimes these scores are also weighed and adjusted for specific kinds of literature (most prominently - for poetry);
  • detailed analysis is a link to a special page with a much more detailed analysis, which we have compiled for each work;
  • the 'read' link is a link to read the work in its entirety on the website (we provide such links when that is legally and technically possible);
  • the 'Interlinear' link is a link to an Interlinear (or 'subtitled') version of this work when the original text has a translation below each word or expression (such a link exists only if an Interlinear text is available).

Please also have in mind that the list provided on this page is language-specific, and still experimental - thus its results might not be comparable with any results in any other of our languages (and perhaps not even with the short texts list. We might quite likely come up with more precise lists in the future as we improve our methods - but hopefully this one still give you an indication about what literature to choose.

Other resources and languages

First, you should have a look at out our other page with Lithuanian short stories or poetry instead of books.

Then we suggest you also check out our literature discovery tool in languages other than Lithuanian. You can do so here:

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And finally, if you are interested in languages and literature - please take a look at our project Interlinear Books. We have a mission to bring literature to language learning, and we have been largely using Interlinear translations to do that - you can find books to purchase and short free Interlinear texts on our site. You can even find a Lithuanian Interlinear book up for sale on our site.