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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • House that Jack Built, The (by )
  • Mother Earth's Children; The Frolics of ... (by )
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The House That Jack Built (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Little Bo-Peep; A Nursery Rhyme Picture ... 
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • The Little Engine That Could (by )
  • Baby's Own Aesop (by )
  • Baby's Lullaby Book : Mother Songs (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
  • The Three Bears 
  • Little Bo Peep 
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • Aunt Friendly's Gift (by )
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (by )
  • The Purple Cow! (by )
  • Picture Book Garden 
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book 
  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
  • Jack and the Beanstalk and Other Stories 
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • The Little Red Balloon (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • Stories for Little Children (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • Song of Hiawatha, The (by )
  • Ozma De Oz (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes : ... (by )
  • Old King Cole (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars (by )
  • Green Fairy Book, The (by )
  • Raggedy Ann stories (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • Bambi (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • The Tale of Lam-Ang and the Fire Giant (by )
  • Dickens' Stories about Children Every Ch... (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • What shall we do now? Over five hundred ... (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know : Tales f... (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (by )
  • Children Stories (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • David Copperfield (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • The Wonder Clock (by )
  • Swiss Family Robinson, The (by )
  • Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by )
  • Piccino, And Other Child Stories (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Second Jungle Book, The (by )
  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • The Blue Fairy Book (by )
  • Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • Precious things: or, Winning words for y... (by )
  • The History of Little Red Riding Hood 
  • Nature Myths and Stories for Little Chil... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Black Beauty (by )
  • Madame How and Lady Why; Or, First Lesso... (by )
  • Ben Comee; A Tale of Rogers's Rangers 17... (by )
  • The Four Million (by )
  • The Thousand and One Nights, A New Tr. B... (by )
  • General Principles of Zoology (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 
  • Rocky Fork (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • Four Million, The (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • Peterkin Papers, The (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • Journey to the Interior of the Earth, A (by )
  • Little Princess, A (by )
  • Jack, The Young Ranchman; Or, A Boy's Ad... (by )
  • The Railway Children (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • The King of the Golden River (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • Children's Book of Christmas Stories, Th... (by )
  • The thousand and one nights: the Arabian... (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz : In Which the Scar... (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • More magic pictures of the long ago; sto... (by )
  • Hound of the Baskervilles, The (dramatic... (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • The Lost World (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Th... (by )
  • Room with a View, A (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • The Red True Story Book (by )
  • Secret Garden, The (by )
  • Broken Vase and Other Stories, The (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Shakespeare (by )
  • Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, T... (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • Great Stories of All Nations (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Countess Julie (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Fathers and Sons (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • A House-Boat on the Styx (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • The Phantom of the Opera (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • The Life of Abraham Lincoln 
  • Macbeth (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • Story of My Life, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • The Tale of Genji (by )
  • The Rome Express (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Les Miserables (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
  • Devil's Pool, The (by )
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • Man Who Would Be King, The (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper (by )
  • Prince and the Pauper, The (by )
  • Round the World on a Wheel : Being the N... (by )
  • The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stor... (by )
  • Promised Land, The (by )
  • Letters from the Earth (by )
  • To the Lighthouse (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • Lorna Doone (by )
  • Metamorphosis (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • The Odyssey (by )
  • The tragedy of Julius Caesar (by )
  • Faust I (by )
  • Turn of the Screw, The (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • Ben-Hur : A Tale of the Christ (by )
  • Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous M... (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
  • Faust (by )
  • The Lost Continent (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • Lost Continent, The (Beyond Thirty) (by )
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • The Iliad (by )
  • Walden (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
  • Mrs. Dalloway (by )
  • Republic, The (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • The Iliad (by )
  • The Yellow Wallpaper (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version), T... (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • Pilgrim's Progress, The (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (by )
  • The New Atlantis (by )
  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • The Pilgrim's Progress (by )
  • Decameron, The (by )
  • The Decameron Volume 1 (by )
  • The Art of War (by )
  • Divine Comedy, The (by )
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