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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
  • Little Bo-Peep; A Nursery Rhyme Picture ... 
  • The Little Engine That Could (by )
  • The Tale of Mr. Tod (by )
  • Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book 
  • House that Jack Built, The (by )
  • The Three Bears 
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • Velveteen Rabbit, The (by )
  • Baby's Lullaby Book : Mother Songs (by )
  • Little Bo Peep 
  • Mother Earth's Children; The Frolics of ... (by )
  • Denslow's Three Bears (by )
  • The House That Jack Built (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • Adventures of Maya the Bee, The (by )
  • The Tiny Picture Book 
  • The Fables of Aesop (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • The purple cow! (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • Purple Cow, The (by )
  • Aesops Fables (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • Stories for Little Children (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book 
  • The Little Red Balloon (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Abridg... (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • A Book of Discoveries (by )
  • Song of Hiawatha, The (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • A Apple Pie and Other Nursery Tales : Fo... 
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • Bambi (by )
  • Old Roly Bear (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes : ... (by )
  • Little Almond Blossoms : A Book of Chine... (by )
  • Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2) (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Lilliput Legends 
  • Anne of Green Gables (by )
  • Jungle Book, The (by )
  • Dickens' Stories about Children Every Ch... (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • The sleeping beauty (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • Zanzibar Tales (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • The Tale of Lam-Ang and the Fire Giant (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • The Rose and the Ring (by )
  • Precious things: or, Winning words for y... (by )
  • The Second Jungle Book (by )
  • Nan (by )
  • The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (by )
  • The Wonder Clock (by )
  • Nature Myths and Stories for Little Chil... (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • David Copperfield (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • Tale of Two Cities, A (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 
  • Winnetou I (by )
  • Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Hor... (by )
  • Hans Brinker (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • The Children of Odin (by )
  • Under the lilacs (by )
  • Ben Comee : A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, ... (by )
  • The Story of Captain Meriwether Lewis an... (by )
  • The Raven (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • Three Musketeers, The (by )
  • Wide, Wide World, The (by )
  • Railway Children, The (by )
  • The King of the Golden River (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • The Three Musketeers (by )
  • Mysterious Island, The (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz: In which the Scare... (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz : In Which the Scar... (by )
  • A Journey to the Center of the Earth (by )
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom ... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • The Count of Monte Cristo (by )
  • Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Th... (by )
  • The Prisoner of Zenda (by )
  • The Prisoner of Zenda : Being the Histor... (by )
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (by )
  • Red true story book (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • A Room with a View (by )
  • Stories of World History (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • Kim (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • The monster and other stories (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Shakespeare (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds Are... (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (version... (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • My Antonia (by )
  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (by )
  • Ragged Dick : Or, Street Life in New Yor... (by )
  • A Capture the Castle (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by )
  • A Connecticut Yankee (by )
  • Arms and the Man (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • The phantom of the opera (by )
  • The Story of My Life (by )
  • Frankenstein : Or, The Modern Prometheus... (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • Princess and the Goblin, The (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • Tragedy of Macbeth, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The Tempest (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage 
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • The Road Not Taken : An Introduction to ... (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • Les Miserables (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stor... (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • Lorna Doone (by )
  • Quo Vadis 
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • 1984 (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Don Quixote - Vol. 1 (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (by )
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps (by )
  • Shakespeare's tragedy of Anthony and Cle... (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Versio... (by )
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (by )
  • The Trial (by )
  • The Odyssey (by )
  • The Trial (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • Ben-Hur (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise, The (by )
  • War and Peace (by )
  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
  • Walden (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • The Age of Innocence (by )
  • The Yellow Wallpaper (by )
  • Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version), T... (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
  • The Brothers Karamazov (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • The Man in the Iron Mask (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask, An Essay (by )
  • The Prince (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Prince, The (Version 2) (by )
  • Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solom... (by )
  • New Atlantis, The (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Democracy in America (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Decameron, The (by )
  • Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (by )
  • Pilgrim's Progress, Score Chr Bunyan (by )
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