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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
  • Little Bo-Peep; A Nursery Rhyme Picture ... 
  • Denslow's Three Bears (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Little Bo Peep 
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • Mother Goose's nursery rhymes : a collec... (by )
  • The velveteen rabbit; or, How toys becom... (by )
  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. (by )
  • Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (by )
  • Harrison's New Nursery Picture Book : Co... (by )
  • The Little Red Hen 
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by )
  • The Velveteen Rabbit; Or, How Toys Becom... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Johnny Crow's Garden (by )
  • Aunt Friendly's Gift (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • Stories for Little Children (by )
  • Picture Book Garden 
  • Cinderella; Or, The Little Glass Slipper... 
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • Adventures of Maya the Bee, The (by )
  • The National Nursery Book 
  • The Tiny Picture Book 
  • Little Red Balloon (by )
  • Little Tot's Picture Book (by )
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • The First Days of Man, As Narrated Quite... (by )
  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • Dutch Twins, The (by )
  • Old King Cole (by )
  • Just so Stories (by )
  • A Book of Discoveries (by )
  • Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2) (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Abridg... (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen : One of R. Ca... (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • Just So Stories (version 3) (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Anne of Green Gables Illustrated By Anon... (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
  • What Shall We Do Now Over Five Hundred G... (by )
  • Happy Prince and Other Tales, The (by )
  • Puss in Boots (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • The sleeping beauty (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • Five Children and It, Version 2 (by )
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Second Jungle Book, The (by )
  • David Copperfield (by )
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • Piccino, And Other Child Stories (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • The Wonder Clock (by )
  • The Blue Fairy Book (by )
  • Nan (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • Hunting of the Snark, The (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • The History of Little Red Riding Hood 
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Ben Comee : A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, ... (by )
  • The Four Million (by )
  • Under the Lilacs (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (by )
  • Carrots, Just a Little Boy and a Christm... (by )
  • The Thousand and One Nights, A New Tr. B... (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The (by )
  • Light Princess, The (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (by )
  • The Fairchild Family (by )
  • Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Hor... (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • The Royal Book of Oz: In which the Scare... (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz : In Which the Scar... (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom ... (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • The Three Musketeers (by )
  • The Three Musketeers (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • Island of Dr. Moreau, The (by )
  • Cricket on the Hearth, The (by )
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
  • Little Princess, A (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Captains Courageous (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (by )
  • A Room with a View (by )
  • Stories of World History (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • More Magic Pictures of the Long Ago; Sto... (by )
  • The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
  • The Magic Pudding (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • Hound of the Baskervilles, The (dramatic... (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • Wonderful Adventures of Nils, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, T... (by )
  • Great Stories of All Nations (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • The War of the Worlds (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • Countess Julie (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • The Story of My Life (by )
  • Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • Frankenstein : Or, The Modern Prometheus... (by )
  • Phantom of the Opera, The (version 2) (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
  • Mayor of Casterbridge, The (by )
  • Princess and the Goblin, The (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • Great Expectations (version 2) (by )
  • A Midsummer-Night's Dream (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
  • Coral Island, The (by )
  • Sign of the Four, The (by )
  • The Coral Island (by )
  • The Sign of the Four and Other Stories (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage 
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • Tempest, The (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Lorna Doone (by )
  • Catch 22 a Novel (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • King Lear (by )
  • The Professor and Poems (by )
  • Man Who Would Be King, The (by )
  • The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stor... (by )
  • 1984 (by )
  • The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of l... (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • The Trial (by )
  • Scarlet Pimpernel, The (by )
  • Lost Continent, The (Beyond Thirty) (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • The Lost Continent (by )
  • The Grapes of Wrath (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • The tragedy of Julius Caesar (by )
  • The Origin of Species (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedien... (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (by )
  • Idiot, The (Part 01 and 02) (by )
  • Faust (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • War and Peace, Book 01: 1805 (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Iliad, The (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • The Republic (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • This side of paradise (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • The Art of War (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • The Pilgrim's Progress (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • Pilgrim's Progress, The (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • The Decameron Volume 1 (by )
  • New Atlantis, The (by )
  • Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (by )
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