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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. (by )
  • Denslow's Three Bears (by )
  • Velveteen Rabbit, The (by )
  • Baby's Lullaby Book : Mother Songs (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
  • Three Little Pigs 
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • The Story of Ferdinand (by )
  • Harrison's New Nursery Picture Book : Co... (by )
  • House that Jack Built, The (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • The Story of the Three Bears 
  • The velveteen rabbit; or, How toys becom... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book 
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • Fairy Tales/By Hans Christian Andersen; ... (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • Purple Cow, The (by )
  • Twas the Night before Christmas; A Visit... (by )
  • The National Nursery Book 
  • The National Nursery Book : Comprising :... 
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • Aesops Fables (by )
  • Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit... (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • Just So Stories (version 3) (by )
  • Ozma of Oz (version 3) (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • Old King Cole Mother Goose Melodies 
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • Stories for Children. First Reader Grade (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars; (by )
  • Old Roly Bear Visits His Cousins (by )
  • Ozma De Oz (by )
  • Song of Hiawatha, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • Children Stories (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables Illustrated By Anon... (by )
  • The Phantom Rickshaw (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • The Tale of Lam-Ang and the Fire Giant (by )
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (th... (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Zanzibar Tales (by )
  • The Sleeping Beauty (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know : Tales f... (by )
  • Cottage Verses for Young Readers (by )
  • The sleeping beauty (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • The Rose and the Ring (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (by )
  • David Copperfield (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • The Adventures of Columbus : Early Ameri... (by )
  • The Blue Fairy Book (by )
  • The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by )
  • The Story of David Copperfield for Child... (by )
  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
  • Last Fairy Tales (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • Ben Comee; A Tale of Rogers's Rangers 17... (by )
  • Under the Lilacs (by )
  • The Four Million (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • The Fairchild Family (by )
  • A Tale of Two Cities (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • Four Million, The (by )
  • Rocky Fork (by )
  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (by )
  • Hans Brinker (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The Royal Book of Oz : In Which the Scar... (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • Children's Book of Christmas Stories, Th... (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • Wide, Wide World, The (by )
  • The Crescent Moon (by )
  • Journey to the Interior of the Earth, A (by )
  • Jack, The Young Ranchman; Or, A Boy's Ad... (by )
  • Little Princess, A (by )
  • The Railway Children (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz: In which the Scare... (by )
  • King of the Golden River, The (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • Count of Monte Cristo, The (by )
  • Room with a View, A (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • Prisoner of Zenda, The (by )
  • Hound of the Baskervilles, The (dramatic... (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • More magic pictures of the long ago; sto... (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
  • The Land That Time Forgot (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • A Room with a View (by )
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Ragged Dick : Or, Street Life in New Yor... (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, T... (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • Robinson Crusoe (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Fathers and Sons 
  • Macbeth (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • The Phantom of the Opera (by )
  • Tom Brown's schooldays (by )
  • The Barber of Seville; A Comic Opera in ... (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (version 2) (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • Innocents Abroad, The (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Tempest, The (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • Golden Bough, The (by )
  • A Midsummer-Night's Dream (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • The Road Not Taken : An Introduction to ... (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Les Miserables (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • Letters from the Earth (by )
  • The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (by )
  • Metamorphosis, The (by )
  • The Professor and Poems (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • Round the World on a Wheel : Being the N... (by )
  • Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor (by )
  • The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stor... (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Quo Vadis (by )
  • Man Who Would Be King, The (by )
  • The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • Prince and the Pauper, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Scarlet Pimpernel, The (by )
  • Origin of Species by Means of Natural Se... (by )
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • The Origin of Species (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,... (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • Animal Farm (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
  • On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Versio... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Iliad, The (by )
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (by )
  • This side of paradise (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (by )
  • Silas Marner (by )
  • The Brothers Karamazov (by )
  • The Age of Innocence (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
  • Walden (by )
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by )
  • The yellow wallpaper (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • The Prince (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • The Decameron Volume 1 (by )
  • Divine Comedy, The (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchause... (by )
  • The Prince (by )
  • Art of War, The (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the R... (by )
  • A Raisin in the Sun Unabridged 25Th Anni... (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • Democracy in America (by )
  • Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solom... (by )
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