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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • Little Bo Peep 
  • The velveteen rabbit; or, How toys becom... (by )
  • Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book 
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
  • Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Denslow's Three Bears (by )
  • House that Jack Built, The (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. (by )
  • The Little Red Hen 
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Mother Goose's nursery rhymes : a collec... (by )
  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • The Fables of Aesop (by )
  • Fairy Tales/By Hans Christian Andersen; ... (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • Cinderella; Or, The Little Glass Slipper... 
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden (by )
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • Little Tot's Picture Book (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • Stories for Little Children (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
  • The purple cow! (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • Old Roly Bear (by )
  • A Book of Discoveries. Illustrated by Go... (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes : ... (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • A Apple Pie and Other Nursery Tales : Fo... 
  • Old Roly Bear Visits His Cousins (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories: Introducing the Li... (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen : One of R. Ca... (by )
  • Ozma of Oz (version 3) (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • Old King Cole Mother Goose Melodies 
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • The sleeping beauty (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • Jungle Book, The (by )
  • Bimbi : Stories for Children (by )
  • Cottage Verses for Young Readers (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • Happy Prince and Other Tales, The (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know : Tales f... (by )
  • Zanzibar Tales (by )
  • Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Hunting of the Snark, The (by )
  • David Copperfield (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • Blue Fairy Book, The (by )
  • Precious things: or, Winning words for y... (by )
  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • The Adventures of Columbus : Early Ameri... (by )
  • The Hunting of the Snark (by )
  • The Second Jungle Book (by )
  • Second Jungle Book, The (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
  • Swiss Family Robinson, The (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Light Princess, The (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • The Story of Captain Meriwether Lewis an... (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • Peterkin Papers, The (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Madame How and Lady Why; Or, First Lesso... (by )
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • Under the Lilacs (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The Island of Dr. Moreau (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • The Mysterious Island (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom ... (by )
  • Little Princess, A (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz: In which the Scare... (by )
  • The King of the Golden River (by )
  • The Flower and the Star and Other Storie... (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • Invisible Man, The (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • More magic pictures of the long ago; sto... (by )
  • Red true story book (by )
  • The Prisoner of Zenda : Being the Histor... (by )
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • Room with a View, A (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Count of Monte Cristo, The (by )
  • The Red True Story Book (by )
  • The wonderful adventures of Nils (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • Ragged Dick : Or, Street Life in New Yor... (by )
  • My Antonia (by )
  • The monster and other stories (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (version... (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • Macbeth (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days : By Thomas Hugh... (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • The Story of My Life (by )
  • The Story of My Life (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • Arms and the Man (by )
  • Frankenstein : Or, The Modern Prometheus... (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands, The (by )
  • The Life of Abraham Lincoln 
  • Emma (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • The Rome Express (by )
  • The House Without a Key (by )
  • Innocents Abroad, The (by )
  • Golden Bough, The (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula (by )
  • The sign of the four and other stories (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
  • Coral Island, The (by )
  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
  • Red Badge of Courage, The (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • Tempest, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • Catch 22 a Novel (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • Metamorphosis (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor (by )
  • The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stor... (by )
  • Uncle Tom's cabin : or, Life among the l... (by )
  • Quo Vadis 
  • Metamorphosis, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • The Origin of Species (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • Lost Continent, The (Beyond Thirty) (by )
  • Julius Caesar (by )
  • The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (by )
  • Shakespeare's tragedy of Anthony and Cle... (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (by )
  • Animal Farm (by )
  • Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous M... (by )
  • Ben-Hur (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Silas Marner 
  • Utopia (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Anna Karenina (by )
  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
  • Republic, The (by )
  • The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise,... (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
  • The Age of Innocence (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • The Last of the Mohicans : a Tragedy, in... (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Art of War, The (by )
  • Tender Buttons (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Pilgrim's Progress, Score Chr Bunyan (by )
  • Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • The Sun Also Rises (by )
  • Democracy in America (by )
  • The Prince (by )
  • The Pilgrim's Progress (by )
  • Decameron, The (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • New Atlantis, The (by )
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