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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • The velveteen rabbit; or, How toys becom... (by )
  • Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by )
  • The Velveteen Rabbit; Or, How Toys Becom... (by )
  • Baby's Own Aesop (by )
  • Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Tale of Mr. Tod (by )
  • The House That Jack Built (by )
  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. (by )
  • Little Bo Peep 
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (by )
  • Denslow's Three Bears (by )
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • Baby's Abc Book 
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit... (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden (by )
  • The Little Red Balloon (by )
  • Twas the Night before Christmas; A Visit... (by )
  • Aunt Friendly's Gift (by )
  • Purple Cow, The (by )
  • The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book 
  • Pets and Playmates 
  • The purple cow! (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • Aesops Fables (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • Adventures of Maya the Bee, The (by )
  • Cinderella; Or, The Little Glass Slipper... 
  • The Curious Adventures of Cinderella, Or... 
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars; (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two Shoes : ... (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • The First Days of Man, As Narrated Quite... (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • Old King Cole Mother Goose Melodies 
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • Little Almond Blossoms : A Book of Chine... (by )
  • Song of Hiawatha, The (by )
  • Ozma de Oz (by )
  • Green Fairy Book, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Five Children and It, Version 2 (by )
  • The Sleeping Beauty (by )
  • What shall we do now? Over five hundred ... (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know (by )
  • Dickens' Stories about Children Every Ch... (by )
  • Zanzibar Tales (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know : Tales f... (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • Happy Prince and Other Tales, The (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Blue Fairy Book, The (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • Hunting of the Snark, The (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • Piccino, And Other Child Stories (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • The History of Little Red Riding Hood 
  • Nature Myths and Stories for Little Chil... (by )
  • Swiss Family Robinson, The (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • The Troll Garden (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Ben Comee; A Tale of Rogers's Rangers 17... (by )
  • Hans Brinker (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • Raven, The (by )
  • Rocky Fork (by )
  • General Principles of Zoology (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • Light Princess, The (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • Under the Lilacs (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • The Story of Captain Meriwether Lewis an... (by )
  • Peterkin Papers, The (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • Carrots, Just a Little Boy and a Christm... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The thousand and one nights: the Arabian... (by )
  • The Flower and the Star and Other Storie... (by )
  • Railway Children, The (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz: In which the Scare... (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • Cricket on the Hearth, The (by )
  • Invisible Man, The (by )
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau (by )
  • Mysterious Island, The (by )
  • Three Musketeers, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • The Broken Vase, And Other Stories : For... 
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • Secret Garden, The (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • Room with a View, A (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Around the World in Eighty Days (version... (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds Are... (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • My Antonia (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • Nicholas Nickleby (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • The Life of Abraham Lincoln 
  • Emma (by )
  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days : By Thomas Hugh... (by )
  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • Princess and the Goblin, The (by )
  • Macbeth (by )
  • House-Boat on the Styx, A (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • Devil's Pool, The (by )
  • The sign of the four and other stories (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • A Midsummer-Night's Dream (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • Coral Island, The (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • The Rome Express (by )
  • Sign of the Four, The (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage 
  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
  • Midsummer Night's Dream, A (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Quo Vadis (by )
  • Metamorphosis, The (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • Lorna Doone (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (by )
  • 1984 (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Faust I (by )
  • Faust (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • Origin of Species by Means of Natural Se... (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • Ben-Hur : A Tale of the Christ (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • The Lost Continent (by )
  • Thirty-nine Steps, The (by )
  • The Trial (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • Faust (by )
  • Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedien... (by )
  • Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (by )
  • Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • This side of paradise (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Republic, The (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by )
  • The Iliad (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • The yellow wallpaper (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the R... (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • Art of War, The (by )
  • The Art of War (by )
  • The Prince (by )
  • Pilgrim's Progress, Score Chr Bunyan (by )
  • Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solom... (by )
  • The Last of the Mohicans : a Tragedy, in... (by )
  • The New Atlantis (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask, An Essay (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
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