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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • The Story of Ferdinand (by )
  • Three Little Pigs 
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (by )
  • The Little Red Hen 
  • Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by )
  • Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book 
  • Baby's Abc Book 
  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
  • The velveteen rabbit; or, How toys becom... (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Little Bo-Peep; A Nursery Rhyme Picture ... 
  • Harrison's New Nursery Picture Book : Co... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Picture Book Garden 
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk and Other Stories 
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • Stories for Little Children (by )
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • The Curious Adventures of Cinderella, Or... 
  • The Purple Cow! (by )
  • Little Tot's Picture Book (by )
  • The Fables of Aesop (by )
  • Aesops Fables (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • Old King Cole Mother Goose Melodies 
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • Little Almond Blossoms : A Book of Chine... (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • Ozma De Oz (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • Old King Cole (by )
  • A Apple Pie and Other Nursery Tales : Fo... 
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • Puss in Boots (by )
  • The Tale of Lam-Ang and the Fire Giant (by )
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (th... (by )
  • Children Stories (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables Illustrated By Anon... (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know (by )
  • Cottage Verses for Young Readers (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The (by )
  • The Little Story-Teller : A Selection of... 
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • The Swiss family Robinson (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • Hunting of the Snark, The (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • Precious things: or, Winning words for y... (by )
  • Blue Fairy Book, The (by )
  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
  • Nature Myths and Stories for Little Chil... (by )
  • Second Jungle Book, The (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • David Copperfield (by )
  • The Wonder Clock (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • The story of Captain Meriwether Lewis an... (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • General Principles of Zoology (by )
  • Light Princess, The (by )
  • Hans Brinker (by )
  • Ben Comee : A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, ... (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • Under the Lilacs (by )
  • Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates (by )
  • Ben Comee; A Tale of Rogers's Rangers 17... (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Hor... (by )
  • Little Women (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
  • The Flower and the Star and Other Storie... (by )
  • The Crescent Moon (by )
  • Jack, The Young Ranchman; Or, A Boy's Ad... (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • Island of Dr. Moreau, The (by )
  • King of the Golden River, The (by )
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (by )
  • Jack, The Young Ranchman; Or, A Boy's Ad... (by )
  • Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Red true story book (by )
  • Count of Monte Cristo, The (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
  • Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Th... (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • Hound of the Baskervilles, The (dramatic... (by )
  • Room with a View, A (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
  • The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (by )
  • War of the Worlds, The (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • The War of the Worlds (by )
  • A Capture the Castle (by )
  • Great Stories of All Nations (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • My Ántonia (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands (by )
  • The Life of Abraham Lincoln 
  • Riddle of the Sands, The (by )
  • The Barber of Seville; A Comic Opera in ... (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days : By Thomas Hugh... (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • The Story of My Life (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • Frankenstein (dramatic reading) (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • Midsummer Night's Dream, A (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • Tempest, The (by )
  • Collected Stories of William Faulkner (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Innocents Abroad, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Promised Land, The (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • Quo Vadis 
  • Hamlet (by )
  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • To the Lighthouse (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Uncle Tom's cabin : or, Life among the l... (by )
  • Quo vadis (by )
  • Lorna Doone (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Prince and the Pauper, The (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper (by )
  • The Professor and Poems (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Faust (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • The Lost Continent (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous M... (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • The Odyssey (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • Ben-Hur : A Tale of the Christ (by )
  • Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedien... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The (by )
  • The Republic (by )
  • War and Peace (by )
  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (by )
  • Republic, The (by )
  • Anna Karenina (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • The Age of Innocence (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • The Iliad (by )
  • This Side of Paradise (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Babbitt (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • The Great Learning (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Prince, The (Version 2) (by )
  • Man in the Iron Mask, The (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Art of War, The (by )
  • The Pilgrim's Progress (by )
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