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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (by )
  • Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by )
  • The Little Red Hen 
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • Denslow's Three Bears (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • Baby's Own Aesop (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • The House That Jack Built (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • Harrison's New Nursery Picture Book : Co... (by )
  • Three Little Pigs 
  • The Tale of Mr. Tod (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Jack and the Beanstalk and Other Stories 
  • Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (by )
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden (by )
  • Fairy Tales/By Hans Christian Andersen; ... (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book 
  • Aunt Friendly's Gift (by )
  • The purple cow! (by )
  • Pets and Playmates 
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • Stories for Little Children (by )
  • Adventures of Maya the Bee, The (by )
  • Purple Cow, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Ozma of Oz (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two Shoes : ... (by )
  • Stories for Children. First Reader Grade (by )
  • Just so Stories (by )
  • Ozma of Oz (version 3) (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • Ozma De Oz (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen : One of R. Ca... (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Heidi (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know : Tales f... (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • Zanzibar Tales (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables Illustrated By Anon... (by )
  • What shall we do now? Over five hundred ... (by )
  • King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • Bimbi. Stories for Children (by )
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (by )
  • Puss in Boots 
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • Piccino, And Other Child Stories (by )
  • The Wonder Clock (by )
  • The History of Little Red Riding Hood 
  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • The Hunting of the Snark (by )
  • Last Fairy Tales (by )
  • Hunting of the Snark, The (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Four Million, The (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (by )
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • The Thousand and One Nights, A New Tr. B... (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • Ben Comee : A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, ... (by )
  • The Four Million (by )
  • Under the Lilacs (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (by )
  • The Story of Captain Meriwether Lewis an... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • Railway Children, The (by )
  • Mysterious Island, The (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • The Three Musketeers (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (by )
  • Island of Dr. Moreau, The (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
  • The King of the Golden River (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • Water-Babies, The (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (by )
  • The wonderful adventures of Nils (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • Secret Garden, The (by )
  • The Land That Time Forgot (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • Wonderful Adventures of Nils, The (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Ragged Dick : Or, Street Life in New Yor... (by )
  • My Antonia (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (by )
  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Tom Brown's School Days (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • The phantom of the opera (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • The Phantom of the Opera (by )
  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (version 2) (by )
  • Arms and the Man (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • Tom Brown's schooldays (by )
  • Fathers and Sons 
  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The Rome Express (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
  • Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Collected Stories of William Faulkner (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Great Expectations (version 2) (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage 
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Innocents Abroad, The (by )
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • Don Quixote - Vol. 1 (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of l... (by )
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • The Professor and Poems (by )
  • King Lear (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • Catch 22 a Novel (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • Uncle Tom's cabin : or, Life among the l... (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • The Idiot (by )
  • Animal Farm (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • Shakespeare's tragedy of Anthony and Cle... (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • The Trial (by )
  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,... (by )
  • The tragedy of Julius Caesar (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • Republic, The (by )
  • Iliad, The (by )
  • Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • Anna Karenina (by )
  • Silas Marner (by )
  • Silas Marner 
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by )
  • The yellow wallpaper (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Silas Marner (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
  • A Raisin in the Sun Unabridged 25Th Anni... (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • The genius (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Man in the Iron Mask, The (by )
  • The Last of the Mohicans : a Tragedy, in... (by )
  • Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solom... (by )
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the R... (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • The Genius (by )
  • New Atlantis, The (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
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