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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • The Story of the Three Bears 
  • The velveteen rabbit; or, How toys becom... (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Harrison's New Nursery Picture Book : Co... (by )
  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
  • The Tale of Mr. Tod (by )
  • Little Bo-Peep; A Nursery Rhyme Picture ... 
  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • Three Little Pigs 
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book 
  • Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (by )
  • Mother Goose's nursery rhymes : a collec... (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • Stories for Little Children (by )
  • Cinderella; Or, The Little Glass Slipper... 
  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
  • Little Red Balloon (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (by )
  • Twas the Night before Christmas; A Visit... (by )
  • Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book (by )
  • Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • Purple Cow, The (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • The Curious Adventures of Cinderella, Or... 
  • The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book 
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • The Little Red Balloon (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2) (by )
  • Song of Hiawatha, The (by )
  • Just so Stories : For Little Children (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • Just So Stories (version 3) (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • Old King Cole (by )
  • Little Almond Blossoms : A Book of Chine... (by )
  • Bambi ṿald mayśele (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars (by )
  • Bambi (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • What shall we do now? Over five hundred ... (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • The Tale of Lam-Ang and the Fire Giant (by )
  • Jungle Book, The (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Bimbi : Stories for Children (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (by )
  • Lilliput Legends 
  • Zanzibar Tales (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • The Phantom Rickshaw (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Piccino, And Other Child Stories (by )
  • The History of Little Red Riding Hood 
  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
  • Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • The Hunting of the Snark (by )
  • The Blue Fairy Book (by )
  • The Wonder Clock (by )
  • Last Fairy Tales (by )
  • The Rose and the Ring (by )
  • Hunting of the Snark, The (by )
  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • Second Jungle Book, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • The Peterkin Papers (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • The Children of Odin (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates (by )
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by )
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by )
  • Under the lilacs (by )
  • The Thousand and One Nights, A New Tr. B... (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • Ben Comee; A Tale of Rogers's Rangers 17... (by )
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (by )
  • Tale of Two Cities, A (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • Railway Children, The (by )
  • Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, The (by )
  • The Flower and the Star and Other Storie... (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • Invisible Man, The (by )
  • Cricket on the Hearth, The (by )
  • The Thousand and One Nights: The Arabian... (by )
  • The Crescent Moon (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • The Broken Vase, And Other Stories : For... 
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • The Magic Pudding (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • Secret Garden, The (by )
  • Prisoner of Zenda, The (by )
  • The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Th... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, T... (by )
  • Countess Julie (by )
  • Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds Are... (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • My Antonia (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Robinson Crusoe (by )
  • The monster and other stories (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Riddle of the Sands (by )
  • Frankenstein : Or, The Modern Prometheus... (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (version 3) (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • Princess and the Goblin, The (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands, The (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days (by )
  • The Story of My Life (by )
  • A House-Boat on the Styx (by )
  • The Barber of Seville; A Comic Opera in ... (by )
  • Arms and the Man (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • Rome Express, The (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • The sign of the four and other stories (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • The Road Not Taken : An Introduction To ... (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Sign of the Four, The (by )
  • Blue Beard 
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Red Badge of Courage, The (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stor... (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • Quo Vadis 
  • Quo vadis (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper 
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • 1984 (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • Man Who Would Be King, The (by )
  • Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • Scarlet Letter, The (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • The Trial (by )
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
  • The Lost Continent (by )
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps (by )
  • Shakespeare's tragedy of Anthony and Cle... (by )
  • The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • The Sonnets (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Republic, The (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • The Age of Innocence (by )
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (by )
  • Brothers Karamazov, The (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • Iliad, The (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Pilgrim's Progress, Score Chr Bunyan (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • The Great Learning 
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • The Prince (by )
  • The Sun Also Rises (by )
  • Tender Buttons (by )
  • The Divine Comedy (by )
  • The New Atlantis (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Prince, The (Version 2) (by )
  • The Art of War (by )
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