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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (by )
  • The velveteen rabbit; or, How toys becom... (by )
  • Harrison's New Nursery Picture Book : Co... (by )
  • Denslow's Three Bears (by )
  • Mother Earth's Children; The Frolics of ... (by )
  • Baby's Abc Book 
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book 
  • The Story of Ferdinand (by )
  • The House That Jack Built (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • The Little Engine That Could (by )
  • Baby's Lullaby Book : Mother Songs (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk and Other Stories 
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • Pets and Playmates 
  • The Fables of Aesop (by )
  • The Little Gingerbread Man (by )
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • The National Nursery Book : Comprising :... 
  • The Tiny Picture Book 
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Old Roly Bear Visits His Cousins (by )
  • Ozma of Oz (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • Dutch Twins, The (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories: Introducing the Li... (by )
  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • Bambi ṿald mayśele (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Abridg... (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars (by )
  • Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2) (by )
  • Just So Stories (version 3) (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Heroes Every Child Should Know (by )
  • Puss in Boots 
  • Zanzibar Tales (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (by )
  • Cottage Verses for Young Readers (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (th... (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know : Tales f... (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • The Phantom Rickshaw (by )
  • Five Children and It, Version 2 (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • The Swiss family Robinson (by )
  • The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (by )
  • Nature Myths and Stories for Little Chil... (by )
  • Last Fairy Tales (by )
  • Piccino, And Other Child Stories (by )
  • Hunting of the Snark, The (by )
  • The Second Jungle Book (by )
  • The Story of David Copperfield for Child... (by )
  • The Blue Fairy Book (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) (by )
  • The Wonder Clock (by )
  • Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by )
  • The Rose and the Ring (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (by )
  • Hans Brinker; Or, The Silver Skates : A ... (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (by )
  • Tale of Two Cities, A (by )
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • General Principles of Zoology (by )
  • A Tale of Two Cities (by )
  • Under the Lilacs (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • Little Princess, A (by )
  • The thousand and one nights: the Arabian... (by )
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (by )
  • Sea Fairies, The (by )
  • The Three Musketeers (by )
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom ... (by )
  • The King of the Golden River (by )
  • Children's Book of Christmas Stories, Th... (by )
  • The Crescent Moon (by )
  • Jack, The Young Ranchman; Or, A Boy's Ad... (by )
  • Invisible Man, The (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • Land that Time Forgot, The (by )
  • Red true story book (by )
  • The Prisoner of Zenda (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • The Broken Vase, And Other Stories : For... 
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Th... (by )
  • More magic pictures of the long ago; sto... (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • Prisoner of Zenda, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • The War of the Worlds (by )
  • Countess Julie (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Shakespeare (by )
  • Robinson Crusoe (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • Robinson Crusoe (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (version... (by )
  • Ragged Dick : Or, Street Life in New Yor... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • The Phantom of the Opera (by )
  • Tragedy of Macbeth, The (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • House-Boat on the Styx, A (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
  • Oregon Trail, The (by )
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Co... (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • The phantom of the opera (by )
  • Frankenstein : Or, The Modern Prometheus... (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • Story of My Life, The (by )
  • The Barber of Seville; A Comic Opera in ... (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
  • Sign of the Four, The (by )
  • Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Red Badge of Courage, The (by )
  • The Road Not Taken : An Introduction To ... (by )
  • Devil's Pool, The (by )
  • Les Miserables (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Midsummer Night's Dream, A (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage (by )
  • Coral Island, The (by )
  • Collected Stories of William Faulkner (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • Catch 22 a Novel (by )
  • Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor (by )
  • Man Who Would Be King, The (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • Round the World on a Wheel : Being the N... (by )
  • To the Lighthouse (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • 1984 (by )
  • Quo Vadis 
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • To Have And To Hold (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • The Odyssey (by )
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • Animal Farm (by )
  • Woman in White, The (by )
  • The Grapes of Wrath (by )
  • The Lost Continent (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • Shakespeare's tragedy of Anthony and Cle... (by )
  • Turn of the Screw, The (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • Iliad, The (by )
  • Walden (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise,... (by )
  • This Side of Paradise (by )
  • The Iliad (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • The yellow wallpaper (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Man in the Iron Mask, The (by )
  • New Atlantis, The (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • The genius (by )
  • Decameron, The (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • The Sun Also Rises (by )
  • The Decameron Volume 1 (by )
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the R... (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • Art of War, The (by )
  • The Great Learning (by )
  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
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