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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • The Tale of Mr. Tod (by )
  • Harrison's New Nursery Picture Book : Co... (by )
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
  • Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (by )
  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • Baby's Abc Book 
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • The Story of Ferdinand (by )
  • The velveteen rabbit; or, How toys becom... (by )
  • The Three Bears 
  • Little Bo Peep 
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Velveteen Rabbit, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book 
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • The Curious Adventures of Cinderella, Or... 
  • The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • The Little Gingerbread Man (by )
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • Little Red Balloon (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • Fairy Tales/By Hans Christian Andersen; ... (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (by )
  • The National Nursery Book : Comprising :... 
  • Aunt Friendly's Gift (by )
  • Stories for Little Children (by )
  • Twas the Night before Christmas; A Visit... (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Abridg... (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • Ozma of Oz (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes : ... (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • Stories for Children. First Reader Grade (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two Shoes : ... (by )
  • Bambi (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen : One of R. Ca... (by )
  • Old Roly Bear Visits His Cousins (by )
  • Old King Cole Mother Goose Melodies 
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know (by )
  • What shall we do now? Over five hundred ... (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • Dickens' Stories about Children Every Ch... (by )
  • Puss in Boots 
  • Heidi (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (dramatic reading) (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know : Tales f... (by )
  • Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • Piccino, And Other Child Stories (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • Swiss Family Robinson, The (by )
  • The Blue Fairy Book (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • Blue Fairy Book, The (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • The Rose and the Ring (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • The Hunting of the Snark (by )
  • The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (by )
  • Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • The Peterkin Papers (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • The Thousand and One Nights, A New Tr. B... (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • Rocky Fork (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (by )
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • The story of Captain Meriwether Lewis an... (by )
  • Carrots, Just a Little Boy and a Christm... (by )
  • Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • The Fairchild Family (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • The Mysterious Island (by )
  • The thousand and one nights: the Arabian... (by )
  • The Crescent Moon (by )
  • Cricket on the Hearth, The (by )
  • Jack, The Young Ranchman; Or, A Boy's Ad... (by )
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
  • King of the Golden River, The (by )
  • Little Princess, A (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Hound of the Baskervilles, The (dramatic... (by )
  • Land that Time Forgot, The (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • Red true story book (by )
  • Call of the Wild, The (by )
  • Broken Vase and Other Stories, The (by )
  • The Magic Pudding (by )
  • The wonderful adventures of Nils (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (by )
  • Room with a View, A (by )
  • More Magic Pictures of the Long Ago; Sto... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • The monster and other stories (by )
  • My Ántonia (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Shakespeare (by )
  • Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, T... (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Countess Julie (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days (by )
  • The Life of Abraham Lincoln 
  • Emma (by )
  • Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • Macbeth (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days : By Thomas Hugh... (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
  • House-Boat on the Styx, A (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula (by )
  • Tempest, The (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • The sign of the four and other stories (by )
  • Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
  • The House Without a Key (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Quo Vadis 
  • The Prince and the Pauper (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper 
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • Lorna Doone (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • Round the World on a Wheel : Being the N... (by )
  • How I Found Livingstone (by )
  • Don Quixote - Vol. 1 (by )
  • Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor (by )
  • The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Tartuffe (by )
  • The Lost Continent (by )
  • The Odyssey (by )
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • Shakespeare's tragedy of Anthony and Cle... (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • Turn of the Screw, The (by )
  • The Trial (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • Woman in White, The (by )
  • Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,... (by )
  • Scarlet Letter, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • Silas Marner (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Silas Marner 
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • The Republic (by )
  • Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The (by )
  • The Age of Innocence (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
  • The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise,... (by )
  • War and Peace, Book 01: 1805 (by )
  • War and Peace (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • The genius (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • The Great Learning 
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • The Prince (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • The Pilgrim's Progress (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask, An Essay (by )
  • The Art of War (by )
  • A Raisin in the Sun Unabridged 25Th Anni... (by )
  • Tender Buttons (by )
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