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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Baby's Own Aesop (by )
  • Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • House that Jack Built, The (by )
  • Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (by )
  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • The Little Engine That Could (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • Baby's Abc Book 
  • The Little Red Hen 
  • Harrison's New Nursery Picture Book : Co... (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • Denslow's Three Bears (by )
  • Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by )
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
  • Cinderella; Or, The Little Glass Slipper... 
  • The Little Red Balloon (by )
  • The Purple Cow! (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • The Curious Adventures of Cinderella, Or... 
  • Stories for Little Children (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • Pets and Playmates 
  • Aunt Friendly's Gift (by )
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Abridg... (by )
  • Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2) (by )
  • Dutch Twins, The (by )
  • Ozma of Oz (version 3) (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen (by )
  • Just So Stories (version 3) (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars (by )
  • Old Roly Bear Visits His Cousins (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • Ozma of Oz (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • Old King Cole Mother Goose Melodies 
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Bimbi : Stories for Children (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know : Tales f... (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • Happy Prince and Other Tales, The (by )
  • The Phantom Rickshaw (by )
  • Five Children and It, Version 2 (by )
  • What shall we do now? Over five hundred ... (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • Bimbi. Stories for Children (by )
  • Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • David Copperfield (by )
  • Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The (by )
  • Nan (by )
  • Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • The History of Little Red Riding Hood 
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Precious things: or, Winning words for y... (by )
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • Nature Myths and Stories for Little Chil... (by )
  • Swiss Family Robinson, The (by )
  • The Blue Fairy Book (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (by )
  • Under the Lilacs (by )
  • Rocky Fork (by )
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by )
  • Hans Brinker; Or, The Silver Skates : A ... (by )
  • The Peterkin Papers (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • The story of Captain Meriwether Lewis an... (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • Four Million, The (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • Winnetou I (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • Island of Dr. Moreau, The (by )
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau (by )
  • Children's Book of Christmas Stories, Th... (by )
  • The King of the Golden River (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
  • A Journey to the Center of the Earth (by )
  • The Mysterious Island (by )
  • Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, The (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Secret Garden, The (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • The Land That Time Forgot (by )
  • Broken Vase and Other Stories, The (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • Call of the Wild, The (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • Hound of the Baskervilles, The (dramatic... (by )
  • More Magic Pictures of the Long Ago; Sto... (by )
  • Land that Time Forgot, The (by )
  • The Prisoner of Zenda (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • A Room with a View (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • War of the Worlds, The (by )
  • Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds Are... (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Nicholas Nickleby (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Emma (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days (by )
  • Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Cour... (by )
  • The phantom of the opera (by )
  • A House-Boat on the Styx (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • A Connecticut Yankee (by )
  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by )
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Co... (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • Dracula (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • A Midsummer-Night's Dream (by )
  • The Sign of the Four and Other Stories (by )
  • The Coral Island (by )
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • Les Miserables (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Midsummer Night's Dream, A (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • The Prince and the Pauper (by )
  • The Travels of Marco Polo (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stor... (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper 
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Don Quixote - Vol. 1 (by )
  • The Professor and Poems (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • Quo Vadis (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • Metamorphosis, The (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • The Odyssey (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • Turn of the Screw, The (by )
  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • Scarlet Pimpernel, The (by )
  • To Have And To Hold (by )
  • Lost Continent, The (Beyond Thirty) (by )
  • The Grapes of Wrath (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • Woman in White, The (by )
  • Ben-Hur : A Tale of the Christ (by )
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps (by )
  • Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Iliad, The (by )
  • This Side of Paradise (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • War and Peace (by )
  • Walden (by )
  • The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise,... (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • The Brothers Karamazov (by )
  • Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The (by )
  • Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version), T... (by )
  • Silas Marner (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Art of War, The (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the R... (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
  • The Decameron Volume 1 (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchause... (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • The Great Learning 
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
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