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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • The Story of Ferdinand (by )
  • The House That Jack Built (by )
  • The Little Engine That Could (by )
  • House that Jack Built, The (by )
  • Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Velveteen Rabbit; Or, How Toys Becom... (by )
  • The Three Bears 
  • Harrison's New Nursery Picture Book : Co... (by )
  • Baby's Lullaby Book : Mother Songs (by )
  • Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book 
  • Mother Earth's Children; The Frolics of ... (by )
  • Baby's Abc Book 
  • The Little Red Hen 
  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • Baby's Own Aesop (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • The National Nursery Book : Comprising :... 
  • The Tiny Picture Book 
  • Adventures of Maya the Bee, The (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden (by )
  • The Little Red Balloon (by )
  • Purple Cow, The (by )
  • The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book 
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • Little Red Balloon (by )
  • Cinderella; Or, The Little Glass Slipper... 
  • Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit... (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • A Book of Discoveries (by )
  • Just So Stories (version 3) (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Little Almond Blossoms : A Book of Chine... (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Ozma de Oz (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • Old Roly Bear Visits His Cousins (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • Song of Hiawatha, The (by )
  • Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2) (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Children Stories (by )
  • Five Children and It, Version 2 (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • The Phantom Rickshaw (by )
  • Puss in Boots (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
  • Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (by )
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • The Troll Garden (by )
  • The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • The Hunting of the Snark (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • Nan (by )
  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • Hunting of the Snark, The (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) (by )
  • Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (by )
  • Under the lilacs (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • Under the Lilacs (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • Peterkin Papers, The (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • General Principles of Zoology (by )
  • Hans Brinker (by )
  • Ben Comee; A Tale of Rogers's Rangers 17... (by )
  • Under the Lilacs (by )
  • Tale of Two Cities, A (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, The (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • Jack, The Young Ranchman; Or, A Boy's Ad... (by )
  • Water-Babies, The (by )
  • The Railway Children (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • Cricket on the Hearth, The (by )
  • Island of Dr. Moreau, The (by )
  • The Three Musketeers (by )
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (by )
  • Railway Children, The (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz : In Which the Scar... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • The Prisoner of Zenda : Being the Histor... (by )
  • The Lost World (by )
  • Room with a View, A (by )
  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
  • The Magic Pudding (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • Stories of World History (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • A Room with a View (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (by )
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • Count of Monte Cristo, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Frankenstein (dramatic reading) (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands (by )
  • Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • Macbeth (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (version 3) (by )
  • Macbeth (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The Red Badge of Courage 
  • Blue Beard 
  • Les Miserables (by )
  • Coral Island, The (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • Midsummer Night's Dream, A (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • The sign of the four and other stories (by )
  • The Coral Island (by )
  • A Midsummer-Night's Dream (by )
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula (by )
  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • The Professor and Poems (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Man Who Would Be King, The (by )
  • Quo vadis (by )
  • Quo Vadis (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • The Travels of Marco Polo (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • How I Found Livingstone (by )
  • The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • The Idiot (by )
  • Scarlet Letter, The (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • The Lost Continent (by )
  • Thirty-nine Steps, The (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • Faust (by )
  • Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedien... (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • Julius Caesar (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • The Odyssey (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • War and Peace (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • War and Peace (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise, The (by )
  • Anna Karenina (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • The Republic (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • The Brothers Karamazov (by )
  • The Age of Innocence (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the R... (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • The Pilgrim's Progress (by )
  • The Great Learning (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Pilgrim's Progress, The (by )
  • The Decameron Volume 1 (by )
  • Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solom... (by )
  • Tender Buttons (by )
  • The Genius (by )
  • The Prince (by )
  • Prince, The (Version 2) (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
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