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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • The Story of the Three Bears 
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Baby's Own Aesop (by )
  • The House That Jack Built (by )
  • Velveteen Rabbit, The (by )
  • The Velveteen Rabbit; Or, How Toys Becom... (by )
  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
  • Denslow's Three Bears (by )
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
  • Little Bo-Peep; A Nursery Rhyme Picture ... 
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by )
  • House that Jack Built, The (by )
  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • The Little Red Hen 
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Purple Cow, The (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • Adventures of Maya the Bee, The (by )
  • Aesops Fables (by )
  • The Fables of Aesop (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk and Other Stories 
  • The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book 
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Ozma of Oz (by )
  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • Just so Stories (by )
  • Bambi (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories: Introducing the Li... (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars; (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • Raggedy Ann stories (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes : ... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (by )
  • King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • Cottage Verses for Young Readers (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • Puss in Boots (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • Lilliput Legends 
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (th... (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • What shall we do now? Over five hundred ... (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables Illustrated By Anon... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Nan (by )
  • Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by )
  • Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The (by )
  • Swiss Family Robinson, The (by )
  • Nature Myths and Stories for Little Chil... (by )
  • The Rose and the Ring (by )
  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • The Little Story-Teller : A Selection of... 
  • Hunting of the Snark, The (by )
  • The Wonder Clock (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (by )
  • Blue Fairy Book, The (by )
  • Last Fairy Tales (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • The Four Million (by )
  • A Tale of Two Cities (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (by )
  • The Thousand and One Nights, A New Tr. B... (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Winnetou I (by )
  • The Peterkin Papers (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • Raven, The (by )
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by )
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (by )
  • The Children of Odin (by )
  • The Four Million (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • Children's Book of Christmas Stories, Th... (by )
  • Journey to the Interior of the Earth, A (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (by )
  • Wide, Wide World, The (by )
  • Invisible Man, The (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • The thousand and one nights: the Arabian... (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
  • The Mysterious Island (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • The Broken Vase, And Other Stories : For... 
  • Hound of the Baskervilles, The (dramatic... (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • 'Captains Courageous'' (by )
  • Prisoner of Zenda, The (by )
  • The wonderful adventures of Nils (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • The Land That Time Forgot (by )
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (by )
  • The Time Machine (by )
  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • A Room with a View (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • My Antonia (by )
  • The War of the Worlds (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • War of the Worlds, The (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • Ragged Dick : Or, Street Life in New Yor... (by )
  • White Fang (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Riddle of the Sands, The (by )
  • Arms and the Man (by )
  • Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Cour... (by )
  • Canterbury Tales, The (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (version 3) (by )
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (version 2) (by )
  • Princess and the Goblin, The (by )
  • The Phantom of the Opera (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Golden Bough, The (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • Coral Island, The (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • The House Without a Key (by )
  • Great Expectations (version 2) (by )
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (by )
  • A Midsummer-Night's Dream (by )
  • The Coral Island (by )
  • Tempest, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • Quo Vadis (by )
  • How I Found Livingstone (by )
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of l... (by )
  • The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stor... (by )
  • Quo vadis (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper 
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • 1984 (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • The Travels of Marco Polo (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • The Odyssey (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • The Odyssey (by )
  • Ben-Hur : A Tale of the Christ (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • The Trial (by )
  • Origin of Species by Means of Natural Se... (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • Scarlet Pimpernel, The (by )
  • Ben-Hur (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • Faust (by )
  • Lost Continent, The (Beyond Thirty) (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • Shakespeare's Sonnets (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • Anna Karenina (by )
  • Republic, The (by )
  • Silas Marner 
  • Iliad, The (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
  • Silas Marner (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by )
  • Walden (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Moonfleet (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the R... (by )
  • Pilgrim's Progress, Score Chr Bunyan (by )
  • Tender Buttons (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask, An Essay (by )
  • Tender Buttons (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • The Genius (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
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