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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • Denslow's Three Bears (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • The Story of Ferdinand (by )
  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • Baby's Own Aesop (by )
  • The Story of the Three Bears 
  • House that Jack Built, The (by )
  • Little Bo Peep 
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • Three Little Pigs 
  • The Little Engine That Could (by )
  • Mother Earth's Children; The Frolics of ... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Twas the Night before Christmas; A Visit... (by )
  • The Tiny Picture Book 
  • Cinderella; Or, The Little Glass Slipper... 
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • Little Red Balloon (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (by )
  • The National Nursery Book : Comprising :... 
  • Jack and the Beanstalk and Other Stories 
  • Purple Cow, The (by )
  • Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • Picture Book Garden 
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2) (by )
  • Raggedy Ann stories (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars; (by )
  • Old King Cole (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • Ozma de Oz (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • Song of Hiawatha, The (by )
  • Old King Cole Mother Goose Melodies 
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (th... (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know : Tales f... (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables Illustrated by Anon... (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • Cottage Verses for Young Readers (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Children Stories (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • The Wonder Clock (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • The Little Story-Teller : A Selection of... 
  • The Blue Fairy Book (by )
  • The Story of David Copperfield for Child... (by )
  • Precious things: or, Winning words for y... (by )
  • Nan (by )
  • Hunting of the Snark, The (by )
  • The Second Jungle Book (by )
  • Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by )
  • The Troll Garden (by )
  • Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The (by )
  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • Nature Myths and Stories for Little Chil... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates (by )
  • Winnetou I (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by )
  • The Story of Captain Meriwether Lewis an... (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Hor... (by )
  • Hans Brinker; Or, The Silver Skates : A ... (by )
  • The story of Captain Meriwether Lewis an... (by )
  • Hans Brinker (by )
  • The Peterkin Papers (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (by )
  • Invisible Man, The (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • The thousand and one nights: the Arabian... (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • King of the Golden River, The (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • The Three Musketeers (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • Jack, The Young Ranchman; Or, A Boy's Ad... (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz: In which the Scare... (by )
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • A Room with a View (by )
  • Hound of the Baskervilles, The (dramatic... (by )
  • Lost World, The (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • Broken Vase and Other Stories, The (by )
  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
  • A Room with a View (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • More magic pictures of the long ago; sto... (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • The Time Machine (by )
  • The Red True Story Book (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • My Antonia (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
  • Countess Julie (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • War of the Worlds, The (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • Robinson Crusoe (by )
  • Nicholas Nickleby (by )
  • White Fang (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Story of My Life, The (by )
  • Mayor of Casterbridge, The (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by )
  • The Life of Abraham Lincoln 
  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • Tom Brown's schooldays (by )
  • Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Cour... (by )
  • The phantom of the opera (by )
  • The Story of My Life (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • Canterbury Tales, The (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
  • Great Expectations (version 2) (by )
  • Tempest, The (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • Blue Beard 
  • Golden Bough, The (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (by )
  • The Road Not Taken : An Introduction To ... (by )
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
  • The Tale of Genji (by )
  • Midsummer Night's Dream, A (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • Collected Stories of William Faulkner (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • 1984 (by )
  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of l... (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Catch 22 a Novel (by )
  • The Professor and Poems (by )
  • Quo Vadis (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor (by )
  • Uncle Tom's cabin : or, Life among the l... (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • Round the World on a Wheel : Being the N... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Ben-Hur (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • Scarlet Pimpernel, The (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,... (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
  • Thirty-nine Steps, The (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedien... (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • Lost Continent, The (Beyond Thirty) (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
  • Anna Karenina (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • War and Peace (by )
  • The Iliad (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • The Pilgrim's Progress (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Tender Buttons (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchause... (by )
  • Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • The New Atlantis (by )
  • Prince, The (Version 2) (by )
  • The Sun Also Rises (by )
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