Lexxio Originals

Original fiction, written to be read at your level.

Every title graded Simple to Faithful, and translated into more languages with every release.

The Blue Door

Quiet drama

Salvage Rights

Science fiction

Under a Broken Sky

Speculative adventure

Apartment 307

Quiet horror

Three Offers

Quiet drama

When the Tide Returns

Historical mystery

The Wall of the World

Speculative adventure

Growing: library, with new titles added regularly
17: languages with an Original on the shelf today
Simple to Faithful: up to five graded versions of the same book
Free: HD narration on selected titles

Why we write them

A graded reader you would actually finish.

A graded reader is usually a classic cut down until nothing is left of it, or a story built around a grammar point and nothing else. We write ours the other way round. Story first, and the grammar is the shape that story already has.

Written to be read, not to be studied

Each one is a real story with a hook on the first page and a turn at the end. If it would not hold you in your own language, it has no business being the book you struggle through in a new one.

No two of them feel the same

Different genres, different narrators, different worlds. A woman crossing an ocean with one photograph. A salvage crew boarding a ship that was declared a wreck eleven years ago. A hallway with a door in it that nobody else can count. You are building a library, not repeating a worksheet.

Long enough to be a challenge, short enough to finish

Four to six thousand words across three or four chapters. Big enough that finishing one means something, small enough that you finish it this week instead of abandoning it in chapter two.

Built around what you are learning

The grammar is decided before the first sentence is written. One book gives each chapter a tense of its own. One holds a single past form for an entire log. One runs on the conditional from the first page, the same conditional pair the app teaches as a lesson. You meet the pattern hundreds of times and never once see a drill.

The shelf

What is on the shelf right now.

Every one of them is graded Simple to Faithful, with the full set of reading tools built in. Spanish and French carry the whole shelf today, and every title we translate lands in more languages.

Newest on the shelf

Under a Broken Sky

A storm that was not weather. A country with no coastline. A name nobody says the same way twice.

A charter out of Aberdeen flies into a storm that behaves like no weather its captain has ever seen, and comes down on dry land where the North Sea should be. Nine people walk away from the wreck. They find grass to every horizon, a road somebody keeps in repair, and a healer who stops a man bleeding without touching him. And they keep hearing one name, spoken with reverence, with laughter, and with a sign made to ward it off.

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How an Original works

The whole book is the lesson, first word to last.

Every Original carries the same scaffolding, and you never have to leave the story to use it.

Vocabulary before you begin

Every chapter opens with the words you are about to meet, each one shown in the sentence it appears in. No cold start, and no first page spent guessing.

Read it at your level

The same story exists at up to five levels, Simple to Faithful, depending on how dense the original writing is. Change level whenever you like, even in the middle of a chapter, and the story never changes underneath you.

A review at the end of each chapter

A short set of questions on what you just read, in the language you are learning or in English, whichever you prefer. It checks that you followed the story, not that you memorized a list.

Word match

A quick matching game on that chapter's vocabulary. Half a minute, no streak to protect, and nothing lost for missing one.

A final quiz, and then something else

Read every chapter and the book opens its ending: a quiz on the whole story, and then a piece that belongs to that book alone. One of them hands you a photograph you can turn over. One of them signs off in the ship's own log. One of them counts the doors back down the hall. We are not going to spoil the rest of them.

Or just listen

A narrated title can be read, listened to, or both at once, with the sentence being spoken lit up on the page as it goes.

Up to five levels, one story

Simple to Faithful, no matter where you start.

Every Original is graded upward from Simple, using as many of the five levels as the story actually needs.

Simple

Short sentences, one idea each, in the present and simple past. Every event in the story survives, told the plain way.

Guided

Everything Simple carries, plus the future and the present perfect, and the beats it had to leave out. Still everyday grammar, still short sentences.

Natural

Nothing cut and nothing summarized, in sentences you can actually hold. The whole story, plainer grammar.

Advanced

Every tense the author used, broken into more sentences so nothing arrives all at once. Only appears when the original text is dense enough to need it.

Faithful

The book exactly as written: full length, full difficulty, for a fluent reader.

Not every title uses all five. Advanced only shows up when the original writing is dense enough to need a rung between Natural and Faithful, and simpler titles, like the children's books we plan to add, may use even fewer.

HD narration

Hear it read the way it was written.

Selected Lexxio Originals are narrated in a premium HD voice, recorded per level and included at no extra cost. This is not a phone reading a page out loud. Press play and hear the opening of Salvage Rights at Faithful-level Spanish, exactly as the app plays it.

Listen to a real narration sample from the app

Salvage Rights, Chapter One

Faithful level, neutral Latin American Spanish, HD voice

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Registro de salvamento, extraoficial. Mara, piloto, para que quede constancia, porque alguien tenía que anotar lo que realmente ocurrió aquí fuera, y no iba a ser Reyes.

Where a title carries HD narration, the audio is free, on the free tier too.
The sentence being spoken stays highlighted, so any word you hear is one tap from its translation.
Read along on screen, or listen with the screen off on a walk or take it with you on your daily commute.
Every other book, including the ones you import, still reads aloud with the built-in voice.

HD narration is recorded title by title and level by level, so it is not on every book. Each title says on its own page whether it has it.

Every language, growing

Written once, then translated language by language.

An Original is not written in one language and then translated when enough people ask. Every title is written to be translated, and each translation is graded from Simple upward before it lands. Every language we support has an Original waiting today, Spanish and French carry the whole shelf, and the rest are being worked through title by title. What is on your shelf today is not all that is coming.

Growing language by language

Every one of the nineteen languages we support has an Original waiting today, graded Simple to Faithful, and more titles keep landing in them.

Simple to Faithful

Graded versions of every title, from Simple up to as many levels as the story needs, so a beginner and a near-fluent reader can read the same book and argue about the same ending.

Difficulty you can see

Each title shows how hard it actually reads at your level, measured from the text itself rather than guessed, so you can pick the next one honestly.

The library

Two on day one. The whole shelf if you subscribe.

Free

Choose an Original when you install Lexxio and keep it, on top of The Blue Door, which comes with the app. The full text at every level, the vocabulary, the chapter reviews, the word match, the ending and the narration. Not a sample chapter, and not a trial.

Subscribers

The entire library, including everything we publish from here on. New titles arrive regularly and appear on your shelf in your language, at your level, already narrated.

See the plans

The shelf keeps growing on its own. Every title we add lands in your language, at your level, and is waiting the next time you open the app.

About the Originals

Written by people who love languages.

Every Lexxio Original begins with a human idea that is developed through multiple drafts before hitting Lexxio.

Our goal isn't to publish as many books as possible. It's to create stories that are genuinely fun to read while helping you build confidence in another language.

Every Original is written, reviewed, and edited by hand before it publishes.

Be first through the door.

Join the waitlist and we'll email you the moment Lexxio is ready to read. Anticipated late Fall 2026.