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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Three Little Pigs 
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
  • The velveteen rabbit; or, How toys becom... (by )
  • Velveteen Rabbit, The (by )
  • The Three Bears 
  • The Little Engine That Could (by )
  • The House That Jack Built (by )
  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. (by )
  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • The Tale of Mr. Tod (by )
  • House that Jack Built, The (by )
  • Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by )
  • Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book 
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • Little Red Balloon (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • Pets and Playmates 
  • Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • The National Nursery Book 
  • The purple cow! (by )
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • The Curious Adventures of Cinderella, Or... 
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • Purple Cow, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Raggedy Ann stories (by )
  • Little Almond Blossoms : A Book of Chine... (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories: Introducing the Li... (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • Puss in Boots 
  • Lilliput Legends 
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • The Sleeping Beauty (by )
  • Puss in Boots (by )
  • Jungle Book, The (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (dramatic reading) (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Heidi (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • The History of Little Red Riding Hood 
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • The Adventures of Columbus : Early Ameri... (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • Nature Myths and Stories for Little Chil... (by )
  • The Little Story-Teller : A Selection of... 
  • Precious things: or, Winning words for y... (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) (by )
  • David Copperfield (by )
  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • The Troll Garden (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • The Thousand and One Nights, A New Tr. B... (by )
  • Under the lilacs (by )
  • The Story of Captain Meriwether Lewis an... (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (by )
  • Madame How and Lady Why; Or, First Lesso... (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • Tale of Two Cities, A (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates (by )
  • A Tale of Two Cities (by )
  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • Children's Book of Christmas Stories, Th... (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • The King of the Golden River (by )
  • Wide, Wide World, The (by )
  • Water-Babies, The (by )
  • Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, The (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • Journey to the Interior of the Earth, A (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
  • A Journey to the Center of the Earth (by )
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Broken Vase and Other Stories, The (by )
  • A Room with a View (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • The Red True Story Book (by )
  • Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Th... (by )
  • Prisoner of Zenda, The (by )
  • The Magic Pudding (by )
  • The Prisoner of Zenda (by )
  • Wonderful Adventures of Nils, The (by )
  • Red true story book (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • Stories of World History (by )
  • The wonderful adventures of Nils (by )
  • A Room with a View (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Nicholas Nickleby (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • A Capture the Castle (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • My Antonia (by )
  • Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (by )
  • Ragged Dick : Or, Street Life in New Yor... (by )
  • The monster and other stories (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (version... (by )
  • Countess Julie (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Captain Blood (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • Frankenstein : Or, The Modern Prometheus... (by )
  • A House-Boat on the Styx (by )
  • Tragedy of Macbeth, The (by )
  • Princess and the Goblin, The (by )
  • Mayor of Casterbridge, The (by )
  • A Connecticut Yankee (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Cour... (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (version 2) (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The sign of the four and other stories (by )
  • Midsummer Night's Dream, A (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • The House Without a Key (by )
  • Golden Bough, The (by )
  • Sign of the Four, The (by )
  • Red Badge of Courage, The (by )
  • Coral Island, The (by )
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • Innocents Abroad, The (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • The Prince and the Pauper (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stor... (by )
  • The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of l... (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • Quo vadis (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • Letters from the Earth (by )
  • Metamorphosis (by )
  • Promised Land, The (by )
  • 1984 (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Shakespeare's tragedy of Anthony and Cle... (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • The Trial (by )
  • Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedien... (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • Turn of the Screw, The (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • Thirty-nine Steps, The (by )
  • On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Versio... (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • Woman in White, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Anna Karenina (by )
  • Mrs. Dalloway (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • The Yellow Wallpaper (by )
  • The Age of Innocence (by )
  • The Iliad (by )
  • Walden (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • The Republic (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by )
  • Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise, The (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • The Last of the Mohicans : a Tragedy, in... (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • Prince, The (Version 2) (by )
  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Decameron, The (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask (by )
  • The Sun Also Rises (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the R... (by )
  • Pilgrim's Progress, The (by )
  • Pilgrim's Progress, Score Chr Bunyan (by )
  • New Atlantis, The (by )
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