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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • House that Jack Built, The (by )
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • Mother Goose's nursery rhymes : a collec... (by )
  • Three Little Pigs 
  • Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • Little Bo-Peep; A Nursery Rhyme Picture ... 
  • Baby's Lullaby Book : Mother Songs (by )
  • Baby's Own Aesop (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Baby's Abc Book 
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. (by )
  • Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • The Fables of Aesop (by )
  • Little Tot's Picture Book (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • Picture Book Garden 
  • The Little Gingerbread Man (by )
  • Little Red Balloon (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • The National Nursery Book 
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • The Little Red Balloon (by )
  • The Purple Cow! (by )
  • Pets and Playmates 
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Little Almond Blossoms : A Book of Chine... (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • Dutch Twins, The (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • Just so Stories (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Old Roly Bear Visits His Cousins (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • Old King Cole Mother Goose Melodies 
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • Song of Hiawatha, The (by )
  • A Apple Pie and Other Nursery Tales : Fo... 
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Abridg... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • The Sleeping Beauty (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • Puss in Boots 
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
  • King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • Cottage Verses for Young Readers (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables Illustrated By Anon... (by )
  • Children Stories (by )
  • Bimbi : Stories for Children (by )
  • Bimbi. Stories for Children (by )
  • The Phantom Rickshaw (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know : Tales f... (by )
  • Jungle Book, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • The Rose and the Ring (by )
  • The Blue Fairy Book (by )
  • Blue Fairy Book, The (by )
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (by )
  • David Copperfield (by )
  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • Last Fairy Tales (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
  • The Swiss family Robinson (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Ben Comee; A Tale of Rogers's Rangers 17... (by )
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Rocky Fork (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • The Thousand and One Nights, A New Tr. B... (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • The Children of Odin (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (by )
  • The Four Million (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • Carrots, Just a Little Boy and a Christm... (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
  • The Three Musketeers (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz : In Which the Scar... (by )
  • King of the Golden River, The (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • Children's Book of Christmas Stories, Th... (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • Island of Dr. Moreau, The (by )
  • Three Musketeers, The (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Kim (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • Land that Time Forgot, The (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • More magic pictures of the long ago; sto... (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • The Broken Vase, And Other Stories : For... 
  • The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (by )
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • Count of Monte Cristo, The (by )
  • Broken Vase and Other Stories, The (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • The Land That Time Forgot (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • The War of the Worlds (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • War of the Worlds, The (by )
  • The monster and other stories (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (version... (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Ragged Dick : Or, Street Life in New Yor... (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (version 2) (by )
  • Arms and the Man (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by )
  • Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands (by )
  • Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Cour... (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • Arms and the Man (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • Red Badge of Courage, The (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage 
  • Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • The Road Not Taken : An Introduction to ... (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • Quo Vadis (by )
  • Metamorphosis (by )
  • To the Lighthouse (by )
  • Catch 22 a Novel (by )
  • Quo Vadis 
  • Hamlet (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
  • Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,... (by )
  • Faust (by )
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
  • Scarlet Pimpernel, The (by )
  • Animal Farm (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • Ben-Hur : A Tale of the Christ (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • The Origin of Species (by )
  • Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (by )
  • Ben-Hur (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Iliad, The (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
  • Walden (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version), T... (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by )
  • War and Peace, Book 01: 1805 (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • The Art of War (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Pilgrim's Progress, Score Chr Bunyan (by )
  • The genius (by )
  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
  • The Great Learning 
  • Democracy in America (by )
  • A Raisin in the Sun Unabridged 25Th Anni... (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • The New Atlantis (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Tender Buttons (by )
  • The Pilgrim's Progress (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask (by )
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