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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • Little Bo Peep 
  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • Denslow's Three Bears (by )
  • The Story of the Three Bears 
  • The Story of Ferdinand (by )
  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. (by )
  • The Three Bears 
  • The House That Jack Built (by )
  • Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by )
  • The velveteen rabbit; or, How toys becom... (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Velveteen Rabbit, The (by )
  • Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book 
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book (by )
  • Adventures of Maya the Bee, The (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk and Other Stories 
  • Pets and Playmates 
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • The National Nursery Book : Comprising :... 
  • The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • The National Nursery Book 
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • Little Red Balloon (by )
  • The Curious Adventures of Cinderella, Or... 
  • Cinderella; Or, The Little Glass Slipper... 
  • Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Stories for Children. First Reader Grade (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • Ozma de Oz (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories: Introducing the Li... (by )
  • Old Roly Bear (by )
  • Just So Stories (version 3) (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • Raggedy Ann stories (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • Old Roly Bear Visits His Cousins (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen : One of R. Ca... (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes : ... (by )
  • Ozma of Oz (version 3) (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Puss in Boots (by )
  • The sleeping beauty (by )
  • Bimbi : Stories for Children (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • Jungle Book, The (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (dramatic reading) (by )
  • Zanzibar Tales (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • Heidi (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
  • The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (by )
  • The Wonder Clock (by )
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • The Blue Fairy Book (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • Piccino, And Other Child Stories (by )
  • The Adventures of Columbus : Early Ameri... (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (by )
  • The Rose and the Ring (by )
  • Nan (by )
  • Hunting of the Snark, The (by )
  • The Swiss family Robinson (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Hor... (by )
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (by )
  • Madame How and Lady Why; Or, First Lesso... (by )
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • The Peterkin Papers (by )
  • Ben Comee : A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, ... (by )
  • The Thousand and One Nights, A New Tr. B... (by )
  • Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The (by )
  • General Principles of Zoology (by )
  • Four Million, The (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • Railway Children, The (by )
  • The King of the Golden River (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • Children's Book of Christmas Stories, Th... (by )
  • Water-Babies, The (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (by )
  • Sea Fairies, The (by )
  • Little Princess, A (by )
  • The King of the Golden River (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz : In Which the Scar... (by )
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • The Prisoner of Zenda (by )
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • Lost World, The (by )
  • Stories of World History (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • A Room with a View (by )
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • Secret Garden, The (by )
  • More magic pictures of the long ago; sto... (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • Countess Julie (by )
  • A Capture the Castle (by )
  • Great Stories of All Nations (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (version... (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Shakespeare (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • Ragged Dick : Or, Street Life in New Yor... (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • The Phantom of the Opera (by )
  • A House-Boat on the Styx (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days : By Thomas Hugh... (by )
  • Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Cour... (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • Frankenstein (dramatic reading) (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • The Life of Abraham Lincoln 
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • Macbeth (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • The phantom of the opera (by )
  • Arms and the Man (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • Red Badge of Courage, The (by )
  • The sign of the four and other stories (by )
  • The Rome Express (by )
  • Devil's Pool, The (by )
  • The Road Not Taken : An Introduction to ... (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula (by )
  • Midsummer Night's Dream, A (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • A Midsummer-Night's Dream (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • King Lear (by )
  • The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stor... (by )
  • The Professor and Poems (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper 
  • How I Found Livingstone (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • 1984 (by )
  • Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor (by )
  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • To the Lighthouse (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Woman in White, The (by )
  • Turn of the Screw, The (by )
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • The Grapes of Wrath (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • Faust (by )
  • Scarlet Pimpernel, The (by )
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps (by )
  • Origin of Species by Means of Natural Se... (by )
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (by )
  • Lost Continent, The (Beyond Thirty) (by )
  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


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


  • Moonfleet (by )
  • The Genius (by )
  • The Pilgrim's Progress (by )
  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • The Great Learning 
  • Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solom... (by )
  • The genius (by )
  • The Decameron Volume 1 (by )
  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
  • Divine Comedy, The (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • Decameron, The (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • New Atlantis, The (by )
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