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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • The Little Red Hen 
  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • Baby's Abc Book 
  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. (by )
  • Velveteen Rabbit, The (by )
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • Three Little Pigs 
  • Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Harrison's New Nursery Picture Book : Co... (by )
  • Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by )
  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
  • Baby's Own Aesop (by )
  • The Story of the Three Bears 
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • The Tiny Picture Book 
  • The Little Red Balloon (by )
  • Aunt Friendly's Gift (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book 
  • Fairy Tales/By Hans Christian Andersen; ... (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • Little Tot's Picture Book (by )
  • The Curious Adventures of Cinderella, Or... 
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk and Other Stories 
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • The National Nursery Book 
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • A Apple Pie and Other Nursery Tales : Fo... 
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • Just so Stories (by )
  • Song of Hiawatha, The (by )
  • Just So Stories (version 3) (by )
  • The First Days of Man, As Narrated Quite... (by )
  • Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2) (by )
  • Stories for Children. First Reader Grade (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • The Phantom Rickshaw (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Cottage Verses for Young Readers (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know : Tales f... (by )
  • King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • Dickens' Stories about Children Every Ch... (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • The Tale of Lam-Ang and the Fire Giant (by )
  • Bimbi. Stories for Children (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Blue Fairy Book, The (by )
  • Nature Myths and Stories for Little Chil... (by )
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • The Swiss family Robinson (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (by )
  • The Story of David Copperfield for Child... (by )
  • The Rose and the Ring (by )
  • Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The (by )
  • The Troll Garden (by )
  • Last Fairy Tales (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • The Wonder Clock (by )
  • The Second Jungle Book (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • The Light Princess (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • The Four Million (by )
  • Peterkin Papers, The (by )
  • Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • The Story of Captain Meriwether Lewis an... (by )
  • The Children of Odin (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • Four Million, The (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • Little Princess, A (by )
  • The Three Musketeers (by )
  • The Railway Children (by )
  • Invisible Man, The (by )
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom ... (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (by )
  • Jack, The Young Ranchman; Or, A Boy's Ad... (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • Sea Fairies, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • More Magic Pictures of the Long Ago; Sto... (by )
  • Room with a View, A (by )
  • A Room with a View (by )
  • Broken Vase and Other Stories, The (by )
  • Hound of the Baskervilles, The (dramatic... (by )
  • 'Captains Courageous'' (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • The Time Machine (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • Secret Garden, The (by )
  • Count of Monte Cristo, The (by )
  • More magic pictures of the long ago; sto... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (version... (by )
  • My Ántonia (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds Are... (by )
  • My Antonia (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • The War of the Worlds (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Sense and Sensibility (version 3) (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • Mayor of Casterbridge, The (by )
  • Story of My Life, The (by )
  • The phantom of the opera (by )
  • Macbeth (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • Frankenstein : Or, The Modern Prometheus... (by )
  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (version 2) (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Golden Bough, The (by )
  • Les Miserables (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • Devil's Pool, The (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • The House Without a Key (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (by )
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • To the Lighthouse (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (by )
  • Promised Land, The (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much (by )
  • Prince and the Pauper, The (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Don Quixote - Vol. 1 (by )
  • Quo Vadis (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • Man Who Would Be King, The (by )
  • The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • The Idiot (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • Turn of the Screw, The (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • Scarlet Pimpernel, The (by )
  • Julius Caesar (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Mrs. Dalloway (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Silas Marner (by )
  • Silas Marner (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • Republic, The (by )
  • The Iliad (by )
  • Brothers Karamazov, The (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • The Age of Innocence (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • War and Peace (by )
  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • War and Peace (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Babbitt (by )
  • The Art of War (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • A Raisin in the Sun Unabridged 25Th Anni... (by )
  • The Great Learning 
  • The Decameron Volume 1 (by )
  • Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchause... (by )
  • New Atlantis, The (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • The Pilgrim's Progress (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask (by )
  • Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • The Genius (by )
  • The Prince (by )
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