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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • The Little Red Hen 
  • The Tale of Mr. Tod (by )
  • Mother Goose's nursery rhymes : a collec... (by )
  • The Story of the Three Bears 
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
  • Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Baby's Own Aesop (by )
  • Baby's Lullaby Book : Mother Songs (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • The Little Red Balloon (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • Fairy Tales/By Hans Christian Andersen; ... (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk and Other Stories 
  • Adventures of Maya the Bee, The (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit... (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • The Little Gingerbread Man (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • Little Almond Blossoms : A Book of Chine... (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories (by )
  • A Apple Pie and Other Nursery Tales : Fo... 
  • Song of Hiawatha, The (by )
  • Old Roly Bear Visits His Cousins (by )
  • Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2) (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars (by )
  • A Book of Discoveries. Illustrated by Go... (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • Stories for Children. First Reader Grade (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Anne of Green Gables Illustrated By Anon... (by )
  • What Shall We Do Now Over Five Hundred G... (by )
  • Puss in Boots 
  • Heidi (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • Cottage Verses for Young Readers (by )
  • The sleeping beauty (by )
  • The Tale of Lam-Ang and the Fire Giant (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Swiss Family Robinson, The (by )
  • The Little Story-Teller : A Selection of... 
  • The Wonder Clock (by )
  • The Rose and the Ring (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • Blue Fairy Book, The (by )
  • Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The (by )
  • The Adventures of Columbus : Early Ameri... (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • The Swiss family Robinson (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • The History of Little Red Riding Hood 
  • Hunting of the Snark, The (by )
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Under the lilacs (by )
  • Ben Comee : A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, ... (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • Peterkin Papers, The (by )
  • General Principles of Zoology (by )
  • Rocky Fork (by )
  • Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Hor... (by )
  • The Thousand and One Nights, A New Tr. B... (by )
  • Hans Brinker (by )
  • The Children of Odin (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • Madame How and Lady Why; Or, First Lesso... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • A Little Princess (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • The Railway Children (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • The Flower and the Star and Other Storie... (by )
  • Three Musketeers, The (by )
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (by )
  • Wide, Wide World, The (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • Cricket on the Hearth, The (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz : In Which the Scar... (by )
  • The King of the Golden River (by )
  • Sea Fairies, The (by )
  • A Journey to the Center of the Earth (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • Stories of World History (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • The Prisoner of Zenda : Being the Histor... (by )
  • Count of Monte Cristo, The (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • 'Captains Courageous'' (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (by )
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Th... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • My Antonia (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • A Capture the Castle (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • Phantom of the Opera, The (version 2) (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands, The (by )
  • Frankenstein (dramatic reading) (by )
  • Mayor of Casterbridge, The (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • Oregon Trail, The (by )
  • Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Cour... (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • The Road Not Taken : An Introduction To ... (by )
  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
  • Tempest, The (by )
  • Blue Beard 
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • A Midsummer-Night's Dream (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • The Coral Island (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • King Lear (by )
  • The Professor and Poems (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper 
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stor... (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • To the Lighthouse (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • Idiot, The (Part 01 and 02) (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • Turn of the Screw, The (by )
  • The Lost Continent (by )
  • Faust I (by )
  • Woman in White, The (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • The tragedy of Julius Caesar (by )
  • On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Versio... (by )
  • The Trial (by )
  • Animal Farm (by )
  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise,... (by )
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by )
  • Iliad, The (by )
  • Shakespeare's Sonnets (by )
  • This Side of Paradise (by )
  • The Age of Innocence (by )
  • The Yellow Wallpaper (by )
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by )
  • The Brothers Karamazov (by )
  • Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version), T... (by )
  • This side of paradise (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
  • Silas Marner 
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • The New Atlantis (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • The genius (by )
  • The Genius (by )
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the R... (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Pilgrim's Progress, The (by )
  • The Divine Comedy (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask, An Essay (by )
  • The Prince (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchause... (by )
  • The Art of War (by )
  • The Last of the Mohicans : a Tragedy, in... (by )
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