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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Little Bo Peep 
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • Velveteen Rabbit, The (by )
  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. (by )
  • Harrison's New Nursery Picture Book : Co... (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
  • The Tale of Mr. Tod (by )
  • Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by )
  • The velveteen rabbit; or, How toys becom... (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • House that Jack Built, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • The Curious Adventures of Cinderella, Or... 
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • Fairy Tales/By Hans Christian Andersen; ... (by )
  • The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • The Purple Cow! (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • Little Tot's Picture Book (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book (by )
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk and Other Stories 
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • The Children's Book of Stars; (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • Bambi (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2) (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories: Introducing the Li... (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes : ... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Anne of Green Gables (dramatic reading) (by )
  • Lilliput Legends 
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (th... (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • What shall we do now? Over five hundred ... (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • The sleeping beauty (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know (by )
  • Jungle Book, The (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • The Tale of Lam-Ang and the Fire Giant (by )
  • Bimbi : Stories for Children (by )
  • Puss in Boots (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Piccino, And Other Child Stories (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • The Blue Fairy Book (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • Second Jungle Book, The (by )
  • The Second Jungle Book (by )
  • Last Fairy Tales (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Nature Myths and Stories for Little Chil... (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) (by )
  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
  • Blue Fairy Book, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by )
  • Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates (by )
  • The story of Captain Meriwether Lewis an... (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The (by )
  • Carrots, Just a Little Boy and a Christm... (by )
  • Ben Comee; A Tale of Rogers's Rangers 17... (by )
  • The Children of Odin (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Hor... (by )
  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (by )
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • Sea Fairies, The (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
  • Island of Dr. Moreau, The (by )
  • King of the Golden River, The (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz : In Which the Scar... (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • The Railway Children (by )
  • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Kim (by )
  • Secret Garden, The (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • More magic pictures of the long ago; sto... (by )
  • The Prisoner of Zenda (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • Call of the Wild, The (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • Stories of World History (by )
  • The Broken Vase, And Other Stories : For... 
  • Kidnapped (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • My Antonia (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (by )
  • Ragged Dick : Or, Street Life in New Yor... (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Macbeth (by )
  • Tragedy of Macbeth, The (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • The phantom of the opera (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • Oregon Trail, The (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (version 3) (by )
  • Fathers and Sons 
  • Phantom of the Opera, The (version 2) (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • Frankenstein : Or, The Modern Prometheus... (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
  • Frankenstein (dramatic reading) (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • A Midsummer-Night's Dream (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • The Sign of the Four and Other Stories (by )
  • Rome Express, The (by )
  • Les Miserables (by )
  • Great Expectations (version 2) (by )
  • The Coral Island (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Quo vadis (by )
  • Quo Vadis (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper 
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • Don Quixote - Vol. 1 (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • Metamorphosis (by )
  • Man Who Would Be King, The (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • Promised Land, The (by )
  • Lorna Doone (by )
  • The Travels of Marco Polo (by )
  • The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • The Idiot (by )
  • The Odyssey (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • Idiot, The (Part 01 and 02) (by )
  • The Odyssey (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • Scarlet Letter, The (by )
  • Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
  • Ben-Hur (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • To Have And To Hold (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • The yellow wallpaper (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • The Republic, Score Plato Rep (by )
  • Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise, The (by )
  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • Walden (by )
  • The Age of Innocence (by )
  • War and Peace (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Babbitt (by )
  • Man in the Iron Mask, The (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • New Atlantis, The (by )
  • A Raisin in the Sun Unabridged 25Th Anni... (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • The Sun Also Rises (by )
  • Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchause... (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • The Pilgrim's Progress (by )
  • Democracy in America (by )
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