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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • The Story of Ferdinand (by )
  • The Tale of Mr. Tod (by )
  • The velveteen rabbit; or, How toys becom... (by )
  • The Three Bears 
  • Mother Earth's Children; The Frolics of ... (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Velveteen Rabbit, The (by )
  • Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The House That Jack Built (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • The Velveteen Rabbit; Or, How Toys Becom... (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • The National Nursery Book : Comprising :... 
  • Little Tot's Picture Book (by )
  • The Little Red Balloon (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • Picture Book Garden 
  • Jack and the Beanstalk and Other Stories 
  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
  • The Curious Adventures of Cinderella, Or... 
  • The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book 
  • Cinderella; Or, The Little Glass Slipper... 
  • Pets and Playmates 
  • Aunt Friendly's Gift (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Just so Stories : For Little Children (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • Green Fairy Book, The (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars (by )
  • Ozma of Oz (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two Shoes : ... (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes : ... (by )
  • Old Roly Bear (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories: Introducing the Li... (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Lilliput Legends 
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • Dickens' Stories about Children Every Ch... (by )
  • Bimbi : Stories for Children (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • Happy Prince and Other Tales, The (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • The Adventures of Columbus : Early Ameri... (by )
  • Precious things: or, Winning words for y... (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • Blue Fairy Book, The (by )
  • Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The (by )
  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • The History of Little Red Riding Hood 
  • The Troll Garden (by )
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by )
  • The Wonder Clock (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (by )
  • Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Ben Comee : A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, ... (by )
  • Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Hor... (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • The Fairchild Family (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • A Tale of Two Cities (by )
  • The story of Captain Meriwether Lewis an... (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • Water-Babies, The (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
  • Mysterious Island, The (by )
  • The Flower and the Star and Other Storie... (by )
  • Little Princess, A (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz : In Which the Scar... (by )
  • Three Musketeers, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • More Magic Pictures of the Long Ago; Sto... (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Th... (by )
  • Secret Garden, The (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • Call of the Wild, The (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm (by )
  • Stories of World History (by )
  • Wonderful Adventures of Nils, The (by )
  • Broken Vase and Other Stories, The (by )
  • The Lost World (by )
  • The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Countess Julie (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Shakespeare (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • Nicholas Nickleby (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • The War of the Worlds (by )
  • Robinson Crusoe (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Fathers and Sons 
  • Frankenstein : Or, The Modern Prometheus... (by )
  • Arms and the Man (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands, The (by )
  • The Life of Abraham Lincoln 
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • The Phantom of the Opera (by )
  • The Story of My Life (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Cour... (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
  • Up from Slavery (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • Tempest, The (by )
  • Great Expectations (version 2) (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Sign of the Four, The (by )
  • Red Badge of Courage, The (by )
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Les Miserables (by )
  • The Coral Island (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
  • Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (by )
  • The Tale of Genji (by )
  • Devil's Pool, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Catch 22 a Novel (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • Lorna Doone (by )
  • Round the World on a Wheel : Being the N... (by )
  • Man Who Would Be King, The (by )
  • Promised Land, The (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • How I Found Livingstone (by )
  • The Professor and Poems (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • Don Quixote - Vol. 1 (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • The tragedy of Julius Caesar (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (by )
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • The Odyssey (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • Faust I (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Anna Karenina (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise, The (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • The Age of Innocence (by )
  • The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise,... (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Mrs. Dalloway (by )
  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
  • Iliad, The (by )
  • The Iliad (by )
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • The Last of the Mohicans : a Tragedy, in... (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask, An Essay (by )
  • Tender Buttons (by )
  • The Sun Also Rises (by )
  • Tender Buttons (by )
  • Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • Democracy in America (by )
  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • Man in the Iron Mask, The (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
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