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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Baby's Own Aesop (by )
  • The Story of the Three Bears 
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Little Bo Peep 
  • Mother Earth's Children; The Frolics of ... (by )
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • Mother Goose's nursery rhymes : a collec... (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • The Velveteen Rabbit; Or, How Toys Becom... (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • House that Jack Built, The (by )
  • The Tale of Mr. Tod (by )
  • Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Denslow's Three Bears (by )
  • The Story of Ferdinand (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • Aesops Fables (by )
  • Little Red Balloon (by )
  • Twas the Night before Christmas; A Visit... (by )
  • Little Tot's Picture Book (by )
  • Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • Picture Book Garden 
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • The Fables of Aesop (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Old Roly Bear (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • Bambi ṿald mayśele (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Song of Hiawatha, The (by )
  • Old King Cole Mother Goose Melodies 
  • Dutch Twins, The (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • Stories for Children. First Reader Grade (by )
  • Just so Stories (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen (by )
  • The First Days of Man, As Narrated Quite... (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two Shoes : ... (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • The sleeping beauty (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • The Phantom Rickshaw (by )
  • Cottage Verses for Young Readers (by )
  • What Shall We Do Now Over Five Hundred G... (by )
  • Five Children and It, Version 2 (by )
  • Jungle Book, The (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • Happy Prince and Other Tales, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • The Rose and the Ring (by )
  • The Story of David Copperfield for Child... (by )
  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • The Second Jungle Book (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • Piccino, And Other Child Stories (by )
  • The Hunting of the Snark (by )
  • Second Jungle Book, The (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • The Troll Garden (by )
  • Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The (by )
  • The History of Little Red Riding Hood 
  • The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates (by )
  • Carrots, Just a Little Boy and a Christm... (by )
  • Madame How and Lady Why; Or, First Lesso... (by )
  • The Fairchild Family (by )
  • Four Million, The (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • Hans Brinker; Or, The Silver Skates : A ... (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • Under the Lilacs (by )
  • Tale of Two Cities, A (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • The Railway Children (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom ... (by )
  • A Journey to the Center of the Earth (by )
  • The Thousand and One Nights: The Arabian... (by )
  • Little Princess, A (by )
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
  • The Mysterious Island (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • Island of Dr. Moreau, The (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Wonderful Adventures of Nils, The (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • More magic pictures of the long ago; sto... (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • The Land That Time Forgot (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • A Room with a View (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • More Magic Pictures of the Long Ago; Sto... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • The War of the Worlds (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • My Ántonia (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Robinson Crusoe (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds Are... (by )
  • The monster and other stories (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • Nicholas Nickleby (by )
  • My Antonia (by )
  • Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • The Life of Abraham Lincoln 
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • Frankenstein (dramatic reading) (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Co... (by )
  • Tom Brown's schooldays (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by )
  • Frankenstein : Or, The Modern Prometheus... (by )
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by )
  • Emma (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • Midsummer Night's Dream, A (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • A Midsummer-Night's Dream (by )
  • The sign of the four and other stories (by )
  • Devil's Pool, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (by )
  • Don Quixote - Vol. 1 (by )
  • The Professor and Poems (by )
  • Prince and the Pauper, The (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Metamorphosis, The (by )
  • How I Found Livingstone (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • The Travels of Marco Polo (by )
  • Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor (by )
  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • 1984 (by )
  • Round the World on a Wheel : Being the N... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Animal Farm (by )
  • The tragedy of Julius Caesar (by )
  • Woman in White, The (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (by )
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • The Grapes of Wrath (by )
  • Ben-Hur (by )
  • Thirty-nine Steps, The (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous M... (by )
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • Anna Karenina (by )
  • Iliad, The (by )
  • Anna Karenina -2 (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • The Iliad (by )
  • The Republic, Score Plato Rep (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise,... (by )
  • Shakespeare's Sonnets (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • Tender Buttons (by )
  • The Pilgrim's Progress (by )
  • Decameron, The (by )
  • The Great Learning (by )
  • The Genius (by )
  • The New Atlantis (by )
  • New Atlantis, The (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • The Prince (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (by )
  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
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