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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • Harrison's New Nursery Picture Book : Co... (by )
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Three Bears 
  • The velveteen rabbit; or, How toys becom... (by )
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
  • Baby's Lullaby Book : Mother Songs (by )
  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. (by )
  • Little Bo-Peep; A Nursery Rhyme Picture ... 
  • Mother Earth's Children; The Frolics of ... (by )
  • Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by )
  • The Story of the Three Bears 
  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • The Little Red Balloon (by )
  • The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book 
  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • Cinderella; Or, The Little Glass Slipper... 
  • The Purple Cow! (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • Adventures of Maya the Bee, The (by )
  • The National Nursery Book : Comprising :... 
  • The Tiny Picture Book 
  • The Fables of Aesop (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • The National Nursery Book 
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • Purple Cow, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • The History of Little Goody Two Shoes : ... (by )
  • Song of Hiawatha, The (by )
  • Old King Cole (by )
  • A Book of Discoveries (by )
  • Just so Stories : For Little Children (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Abridg... (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2) (by )
  • The First Days of Man, As Narrated Quite... (by )
  • Ozma of Oz (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Five Children and It (by )
  • Cottage Verses for Young Readers (by )
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (th... (by )
  • The sleeping beauty (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The (by )
  • What shall we do now? Over five hundred ... (by )
  • Five Children and It, Version 2 (by )
  • Dickens' Stories about Children Every Ch... (by )
  • Zanzibar Tales (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • Children Stories (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (dramatic reading) (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables Illustrated by Anon... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Second Jungle Book, The (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (by )
  • Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The (by )
  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • The Swiss family Robinson (by )
  • The History of Little Red Riding Hood 
  • The Little Story-Teller : A Selection of... 
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by )
  • The Story of David Copperfield for Child... (by )
  • Last Fairy Tales (by )
  • Nature Myths and Stories for Little Chil... (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • Hans Brinker; Or, The Silver Skates : A ... (by )
  • Tale of Two Cities, A (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • The Peterkin Papers (by )
  • Under the lilacs (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (by )
  • The Four Million (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • Under the Lilacs (by )
  • Ben Comee : A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, ... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • Jack, The Young Ranchman; Or, A Boy's Ad... (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz: In which the Scare... (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • A Journey to the Center of the Earth (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (by )
  • Journey to the Interior of the Earth, A (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • Children's Book of Christmas Stories, Th... (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • 'Captains Courageous'' (by )
  • More magic pictures of the long ago; sto... (by )
  • The Magic Pudding (by )
  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • The Land That Time Forgot (by )
  • The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (by )
  • Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Th... (by )
  • Lost World, The (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds Are... (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • My Antonia (by )
  • War of the Worlds, The (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Shakespeare (by )
  • Nicholas Nickleby (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • The Phantom of the Opera (by )
  • Princess and the Goblin, The (by )
  • The Barber of Seville; A Comic Opera in ... (by )
  • Canterbury Tales, The (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • A Connecticut Yankee (by )
  • Macbeth (by )
  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • Emma (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The Tempest (by )
  • Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Devil's Pool, The (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • Les Miserables (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Red Badge of Courage, The (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • The Coral Island (by )
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (by )
  • The sign of the four and other stories (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • A Midsummer-Night's Dream (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Metamorphosis (by )
  • The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much (by )
  • Quo Vadis 
  • Prince and the Pauper, The (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • Promised Land, The (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • 1984 (by )
  • King Lear (by )
  • Man Who Would Be King, The (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Catch 22 a Novel (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Ben-Hur (by )
  • Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (by )
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • The Lost Continent (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • Turn of the Screw, The (by )
  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • The Trial (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • Scarlet Letter, The (by )
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • The Brothers Karamazov (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • The Iliad (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by )
  • Silas Marner (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • This side of paradise (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • War and Peace (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Democracy in America (by )
  • The New Atlantis (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • Art of War, The (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • New Atlantis, The (by )
  • The Last of the Mohicans : a Tragedy, in... (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
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