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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • The Tale of Mr. Tod (by )
  • The Little Engine That Could (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • Mother Goose's nursery rhymes : a collec... (by )
  • Baby's Abc Book 
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • The Story of Ferdinand (by )
  • Three Little Pigs 
  • The Three Bears 
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
  • The Curious Adventures of Cinderella, Or... 
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • Cinderella; Or, The Little Glass Slipper... 
  • The Tiny Picture Book 
  • Little Tot's Picture Book (by )
  • Little Red Balloon (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • The National Nursery Book : Comprising :... 
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • Purple Cow, The (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • The purple cow! (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Green Fairy Book, The (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories: Introducing the Li... (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • Raggedy Ann stories (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Bambi (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes : ... (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • Song of Hiawatha, The (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two Shoes : ... (by )
  • Just So Stories (version 3) (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Five Children and It (by )
  • Children Stories (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Puss in Boots (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Five Children and It, Version 2 (by )
  • The Sleeping Beauty (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (dramatic reading) (by )
  • What Shall We Do Now Over Five Hundred G... (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Blue Fairy Book, The (by )
  • The Little Story-Teller : A Selection of... 
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • The Hunting of the Snark (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • The Blue Fairy Book (by )
  • The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • Hunting of the Snark, The (by )
  • The Wonder Clock (by )
  • The Second Jungle Book (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (by )
  • Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by )
  • The Swiss family Robinson (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Hor... (by )
  • Hans Brinker; Or, The Silver Skates : A ... (by )
  • Tale of Two Cities, A (by )
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (by )
  • Hans Brinker (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • The Fairchild Family (by )
  • Under the lilacs (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • Sea Fairies, The (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, The (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • Journey to the Interior of the Earth, A (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • Wide, Wide World, The (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • The Count of Monte Cristo (by )
  • The Time Machine (by )
  • More magic pictures of the long ago; sto... (by )
  • Hound of the Baskervilles, The (dramatic... (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • Stories of World History (by )
  • Count of Monte Cristo, The (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • The Land That Time Forgot (by )
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (by )
  • The Prisoner of Zenda : Being the Histor... (by )
  • The Prisoner of Zenda (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • The Lost World (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • The War of the Worlds (by )
  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Shakespeare (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, T... (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (version... (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • Ragged Dick : Or, Street Life in New Yor... (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds Are... (by )
  • A Capture the Castle (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Oregon Trail, The (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • Princess and the Goblin, The (by )
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by )
  • Canterbury Tales, The (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • The Life of Abraham Lincoln 
  • Frankenstein (dramatic reading) (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Cour... (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Co... (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage 
  • The Rome Express (by )
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (by )
  • Tempest, The (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Midsummer Night's Dream, A (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • The sign of the four and other stories (by )
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • Blue Beard 
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Quo vadis (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • Quo Vadis (by )
  • The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of l... (by )
  • Metamorphosis (by )
  • Don Quixote - Vol. 1 (by )
  • Catch 22 a Novel (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • 1984 (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • King Lear (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • The Trial (by )
  • Origin of Species by Means of Natural Se... (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (by )
  • To Have And To Hold (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • Lost Continent, The (Beyond Thirty) (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Versio... (by )
  • Scarlet Letter, The (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Mrs. Dalloway (by )
  • This side of paradise (by )
  • Silas Marner 
  • Iliad, The (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (by )
  • Shakespeare's Sonnets (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • Silas Marner (by )
  • Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise, The (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by )
  • Republic, The (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solom... (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • The genius (by )
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the R... (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • The Sun Also Rises (by )
  • The New Atlantis (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • The Great Learning (by )
  • The Great Learning 
  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
  • New Atlantis, The (by )
  • The Prince (by )
  • Divine Comedy, The (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
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