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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • Harrison's New Nursery Picture Book : Co... (by )
  • The Three Bears 
  • Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by )
  • The Story of Ferdinand (by )
  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • Baby's Abc Book 
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • Denslow's Three Bears (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • Baby's Lullaby Book : Mother Songs (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit... (by )
  • The Little Gingerbread Man (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book 
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • Aesops Fables (by )
  • Stories for Little Children (by )
  • The Little Red Balloon (by )
  • The National Nursery Book : Comprising :... 
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • Little Tot's Picture Book (by )
  • Little Red Balloon (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Just so Stories (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes : ... (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • Ozma of Oz (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • Old King Cole (by )
  • The First Days of Man, As Narrated Quite... (by )
  • Raggedy Ann stories (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars; (by )
  • Ozma De Oz (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (th... (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • The Phantom Rickshaw (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • Dickens' Stories about Children Every Ch... (by )
  • What shall we do now? Over five hundred ... (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know (by )
  • King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • Five Children and It, Version 2 (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know : Tales f... (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (dramatic reading) (by )
  • The Sleeping Beauty (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • The Blue Fairy Book (by )
  • The Story of David Copperfield for Child... (by )
  • David Copperfield (by )
  • Nature Myths and Stories for Little Chil... (by )
  • Swiss Family Robinson, The (by )
  • Last Fairy Tales (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • The Wonder Clock (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • The Adventures of Columbus : Early Ameri... (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (by )
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • The Little Story-Teller : A Selection of... 
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Four Million, The (by )
  • Tale of Two Cities, A (by )
  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • Ben Comee; A Tale of Rogers's Rangers 17... (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • The Story of Captain Meriwether Lewis an... (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • Rocky Fork (by )
  • The Four Million (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The Flower and the Star and Other Storie... (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz: In which the Scare... (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • The Mysterious Island (by )
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau (by )
  • Invisible Man, The (by )
  • A Journey to the Center of the Earth (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • King of the Golden River, The (by )
  • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (by )
  • The Railway Children (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • The Lost World (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (by )
  • Lost World, The (by )
  • More Magic Pictures of the Long Ago; Sto... (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • The Broken Vase, And Other Stories : For... 
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Th... (by )
  • The Prisoner of Zenda (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • My Ántonia (by )
  • The War of the Worlds (by )
  • Great Stories of All Nations (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Shakespeare (by )
  • Ragged Dick : Or, Street Life in New Yor... (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • The monster and other stories (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • Countess Julie (by )
  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (by )
  • Nicholas Nickleby (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Tragedy of Macbeth, The (by )
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by )
  • The Life of Abraham Lincoln 
  • Emma (by )
  • A Connecticut Yankee (by )
  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (version 2) (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands, The (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • Story of My Life, The (by )
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Co... (by )
  • The Story of My Life (by )
  • The Barber of Seville; A Comic Opera in ... (by )
  • Frankenstein : Or, The Modern Prometheus... (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • Canterbury Tales, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • The sign of the four and other stories (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • Les Miserables (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • Midsummer Night's Dream, A (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Letters from the Earth (by )
  • Metamorphosis (by )
  • Uncle Tom's cabin : or, Life among the l... (by )
  • King Lear (by )
  • The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stor... (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • 1984 (by )
  • The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor (by )
  • The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (by )
  • Metamorphosis, The (by )
  • Catch 22 a Novel (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Woman in White, The (by )
  • The Odyssey (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • The Lost Continent (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps (by )
  • The Odyssey (by )
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
  • Scarlet Pimpernel, The (by )
  • The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • To Have And To Hold (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous M... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (by )
  • Silas Marner (by )
  • War and Peace (by )
  • Iliad, The (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • Brothers Karamazov, The (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • The Republic (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Pilgrim's Progress, The (by )
  • The Sun Also Rises (by )
  • Prince, The (Version 2) (by )
  • Divine Comedy, The (by )
  • Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchause... (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solom... (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • The Genius (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • Tender Buttons (by )
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