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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book 
  • Baby's Lullaby Book : Mother Songs (by )
  • Velveteen Rabbit, The (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • The House That Jack Built (by )
  • Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (by )
  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. (by )
  • The Little Red Hen 
  • Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by )
  • Little Bo-Peep; A Nursery Rhyme Picture ... 
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Jack and the Beanstalk and Other Stories 
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • Fairy Tales/By Hans Christian Andersen; ... (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
  • The Tiny Picture Book 
  • Johnny Crow's Garden (by )
  • Little Red Balloon (by )
  • Pets and Playmates 
  • Aunt Friendly's Gift (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • The Purple Cow! (by )
  • The Little Red Balloon (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • Twas the Night before Christmas; A Visit... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • Song of Hiawatha, The (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • Old King Cole Mother Goose Melodies 
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen : One of R. Ca... (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • Dutch Twins, The (by )
  • A Book of Discoveries (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes : ... (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Abridg... (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
  • Bimbi. Stories for Children (by )
  • Cottage Verses for Young Readers (by )
  • Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • The Phantom Rickshaw (by )
  • What Shall We Do Now Over Five Hundred G... (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know : Tales f... (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • The Phantom Rickshaw (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Hunting of the Snark, The (by )
  • The Adventures of Columbus : Early Ameri... (by )
  • Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by )
  • The Blue Fairy Book (by )
  • Nan (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (by )
  • The Second Jungle Book (by )
  • Blue Fairy Book, The (by )
  • The History of Little Red Riding Hood 
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • The Wonder Clock (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 
  • Tale of Two Cities, A (by )
  • Four Million, The (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • The Fairchild Family (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • A Tale of Two Cities (by )
  • Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Hor... (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • Raven, The (by )
  • Under the lilacs (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • Sea Fairies, The (by )
  • The Three Musketeers (by )
  • Railway Children, The (by )
  • King of the Golden River, The (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
  • A Journey to the Center of the Earth (by )
  • The Railway Children (by )
  • The thousand and one nights: the Arabian... (by )
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • The King of the Golden River (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Hound of the Baskervilles, The (dramatic... (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • The Magic Pudding (by )
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (by )
  • The Red True Story Book (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • The Prisoner of Zenda : Being the Histor... (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • Call of the Wild, The (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • Count of Monte Cristo, The (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • My Ántonia (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Shakespeare (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • Ragged Dick : Or, Street Life in New Yor... (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • Great Stories of All Nations (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (version... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Emma (by )
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • Tom Brown's schooldays (by )
  • Fathers and Sons 
  • Macbeth (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Co... (by )
  • Frankenstein : Or, The Modern Prometheus... (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • The Story of My Life (by )
  • Oregon Trail, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • Blue Beard 
  • The Sign of the Four and Other Stories (by )
  • The Rome Express (by )
  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Devil's Pool, The (by )
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • The sign of the four and other stories (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Letters from the Earth (by )
  • The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stor... (by )
  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Catch 22 a Novel (by )
  • Metamorphosis (by )
  • Man Who Would Be King, The (by )
  • Round the World on a Wheel : Being the N... (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • Promised Land, The (by )
  • 1984 (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (by )
  • The Travels of Marco Polo (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Lost Continent, The (Beyond Thirty) (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • Scarlet Pimpernel, The (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • Ben-Hur (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • Faust (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • Animal Farm (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Iliad, The (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (by )
  • The Iliad (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
  • Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version), T... (by )
  • War and Peace, Book 01: 1805 (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Republic, The (by )
  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
  • The Republic (by )
  • The Brothers Karamazov (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • The Decameron Volume 1 (by )
  • Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solom... (by )
  • Prince, The (Version 2) (by )
  • The Divine Comedy (by )
  • The Great Learning (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the R... (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • Tender Buttons (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • The Genius (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • Man in the Iron Mask, The (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
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