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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
  • The Tale of Mr. Tod (by )
  • Harrison's New Nursery Picture Book : Co... (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • The House That Jack Built (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • Little Bo Peep 
  • Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book 
  • The velveteen rabbit; or, How toys becom... (by )
  • The Story of the Three Bears 
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (by )
  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • Three Little Pigs 
  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Aesops Fables (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book 
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • Pets and Playmates 
  • Stories for Little Children (by )
  • Picture Book Garden 
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • Aunt Friendly's Gift (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit... (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Green Fairy Book, The (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Abridg... (by )
  • Raggedy Ann stories (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories: Introducing the Li... (by )
  • A Book of Discoveries (by )
  • Stories for Children. First Reader Grade (by )
  • Old King Cole (by )
  • The First Days of Man, As Narrated Quite... (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (th... (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Zanzibar Tales (by )
  • The Phantom Rickshaw (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • The Phantom Rickshaw (by )
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (dramatic reading) (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know : Tales f... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) (by )
  • Second Jungle Book, The (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • Last Fairy Tales (by )
  • Nan (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • The Adventures of Columbus : Early Ameri... (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • Precious things: or, Winning words for y... (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • Ben Comee : A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, ... (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • Four Million, The (by )
  • The Thousand and One Nights, A New Tr. B... (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (by )
  • The Four Million (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • The Railway Children (by )
  • The thousand and one nights: the Arabian... (by )
  • The Three Musketeers (by )
  • Island of Dr. Moreau, The (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
  • Railway Children, The (by )
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Red true story book (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • The Land That Time Forgot (by )
  • The wonderful adventures of Nils (by )
  • Wonderful Adventures of Nils, The (by )
  • More Magic Pictures of the Long Ago; Sto... (by )
  • The Broken Vase, And Other Stories : For... 
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • The Red True Story Book (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • The Time Machine (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • Nicholas Nickleby (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • The monster and other stories (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
  • Robinson Crusoe (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Ragged Dick : Or, Street Life in New Yor... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Phantom of the Opera, The (version 2) (by )
  • Frankenstein (dramatic reading) (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • Mayor of Casterbridge, The (by )
  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (version 2) (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • The Phantom of the Opera (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (version 3) (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • Story of My Life, The (by )
  • The phantom of the opera (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • Les Miserables (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Blue Beard 
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • Les Miserables (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • The Rome Express (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • Innocents Abroad, The (by )
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula (by )
  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
  • Devil's Pool, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Lorna Doone (by )
  • Uncle Tom's cabin : or, Life among the l... (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper 
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of l... (by )
  • The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stor... (by )
  • Letters from the Earth (by )
  • The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (by )
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Turn of the Screw, The (by )
  • Faust (by )
  • Scarlet Pimpernel, The (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • Lost Continent, The (Beyond Thirty) (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • Faust (by )
  • Faust I (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • Origin of Species by Means of Natural Se... (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (by )
  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • To Have And To Hold (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • This Side of Paradise (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • This side of paradise (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • The Age of Innocence (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Walden (by )
  • Iliad, The (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • The Man in the Iron Mask, An Essay (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask (by )
  • Man in the Iron Mask, The (by )
  • New Atlantis, The (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solom... (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • The Genius (by )
  • The Prince (by )
  • The Great Learning (by )
  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
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