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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (by )
  • Baby's Lullaby Book : Mother Songs (by )
  • The Little Red Hen 
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • The Velveteen Rabbit; Or, How Toys Becom... (by )
  • Baby's Own Aesop (by )
  • Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by )
  • Mother Goose's nursery rhymes : a collec... (by )
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Adventures of Maya the Bee, The (by )
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit... (by )
  • Twas the Night before Christmas; A Visit... (by )
  • Stories for Little Children (by )
  • Pets and Playmates 
  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • Picture Book Garden 
  • Jack and the Beanstalk and Other Stories 
  • Purple Cow, The (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Dutch Twins, The (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • Ozma De Oz (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes : ... (by )
  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories: Introducing the Li... (by )
  • Old Roly Bear (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • A Book of Discoveries. Illustrated by Go... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Heidi (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know : Tales f... (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (dramatic reading) (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • The Sleeping Beauty (by )
  • The Phantom Rickshaw (by )
  • Happy Prince and Other Tales, The (by )
  • Five Children and It, Version 2 (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • The Second Jungle Book (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
  • The Troll Garden (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • David Copperfield (by )
  • The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (by )
  • The Little Story-Teller : A Selection of... 
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (by )
  • The Adventures of Columbus : Early Ameri... (by )
  • Piccino, And Other Child Stories (by )
  • The Swiss family Robinson (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • The Story of Captain Meriwether Lewis an... (by )
  • Ben Comee : A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, ... (by )
  • Under the Lilacs (by )
  • The Fairchild Family (by )
  • Four Million, The (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • Tale of Two Cities, A (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The Royal Book of Oz : In Which the Scar... (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • Jack, The Young Ranchman; Or, A Boy's Ad... (by )
  • Island of Dr. Moreau, The (by )
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom ... (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (by )
  • The Thousand and One Nights: The Arabian... (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
  • Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, The (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
  • The Three Musketeers (by )
  • Little Princess, A (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • The wonderful adventures of Nils (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • Secret Garden, The (by )
  • The Land That Time Forgot (by )
  • The Red True Story Book (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm (by )
  • Lost World, The (by )
  • Hound of the Baskervilles, The (dramatic... (by )
  • 'Captains Courageous'' (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • The Magic Pudding (by )
  • Broken Vase and Other Stories, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • Ragged Dick : Or, Street Life in New Yor... (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • My Antonia (by )
  • Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds Are... (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Shakespeare (by )
  • White Fang (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Sense and Sensibility (version 3) (by )
  • The phantom of the opera (by )
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by )
  • Mayor of Casterbridge, The (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • Frankenstein (dramatic reading) (by )
  • Princess and the Goblin, The (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The Road Not Taken : An Introduction to ... (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage (by )
  • The Tale of Genji (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • Red Badge of Courage, The (by )
  • The Sign of the Four and Other Stories (by )
  • The House Without a Key (by )
  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (by )
  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Man Who Would Be King, The (by )
  • Metamorphosis (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • The Professor and Poems (by )
  • Quo Vadis 
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • Promised Land, The (by )
  • Quo vadis (by )
  • To the Lighthouse (by )
  • Catch 22 a Novel (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper 
  • Round the World on a Wheel : Being the N... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedien... (by )
  • On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Versio... (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • Thirty-nine Steps, The (by )
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (by )
  • Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous M... (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by )
  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
  • Shakespeare's Sonnets (by )
  • War and Peace, Book 01: 1805 (by )
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (by )
  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • The Yellow Wallpaper (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Silas Marner (by )
  • Silas Marner (by )
  • Walden (by )
  • Republic, The (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • New Atlantis, The (by )
  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solom... (by )
  • Tender Buttons (by )
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the R... (by )
  • Pilgrim's Progress, The (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask (by )
  • Man in the Iron Mask, The (by )
  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
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