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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. (by )
  • Denslow's Three Bears (by )
  • The Story of Ferdinand (by )
  • House that Jack Built, The (by )
  • The Little Red Hen 
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • The Velveteen Rabbit; Or, How Toys Becom... (by )
  • Velveteen Rabbit, The (by )
  • Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Mother Earth's Children; The Frolics of ... (by )
  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Tale of Mr. Tod (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Little Tot's Picture Book (by )
  • Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book (by )
  • Stories for Little Children (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • Aunt Friendly's Gift (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
  • Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (by )
  • Twas the Night before Christmas; A Visit... (by )
  • The National Nursery Book : Comprising :... 
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • The Purple Cow! (by )
  • The purple cow! (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Bambi (by )
  • Old King Cole Mother Goose Melodies 
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • Ozma of Oz (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • A Book of Discoveries. Illustrated by Go... (by )
  • Raggedy Ann stories (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • Old King Cole (by )
  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • Ozma de Oz (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Bimbi : Stories for Children (by )
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (th... (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • Puss in Boots (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • The Sleeping Beauty (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know : Tales f... (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Swiss Family Robinson, The (by )
  • The Adventures of Columbus : Early Ameri... (by )
  • Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The (by )
  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • Last Fairy Tales (by )
  • The Little Story-Teller : A Selection of... 
  • The Swiss family Robinson (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • The Second Jungle Book (by )
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • Nan (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (by )
  • Carrots, Just a Little Boy and a Christm... (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • The Peterkin Papers (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Hor... (by )
  • Under the Lilacs (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • Tale of Two Cities, A (by )
  • Four Million, The (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (by )
  • Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (by )
  • The Railway Children (by )
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau (by )
  • Children's Book of Christmas Stories, Th... (by )
  • The Crescent Moon (by )
  • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (by )
  • The Thousand and One Nights: The Arabian... (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • Jack, The Young Ranchman; Or, A Boy's Ad... (by )
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Land that Time Forgot, The (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • The Prisoner of Zenda : Being the Histor... (by )
  • The Time Machine (by )
  • Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Th... (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • 'Captains Courageous'' (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm (by )
  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
  • The Lost World (by )
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • My Antonia (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • Great Stories of All Nations (by )
  • The War of the Worlds (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • Countess Julie (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • Countess Julie (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • The Life of Abraham Lincoln 
  • Emma (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days : By Thomas Hugh... (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • Princess and the Goblin, The (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • Frankenstein : Or, The Modern Prometheus... (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • Tragedy of Macbeth, The (by )
  • Tom Brown's schooldays (by )
  • Macbeth (by )
  • Arms and the Man (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • The Tale of Genji (by )
  • The Road Not Taken : An Introduction to ... (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • Tempest, The (by )
  • Innocents Abroad, The (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Devil's Pool, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Metamorphosis, The (by )
  • Round the World on a Wheel : Being the N... (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • The Travels of Marco Polo (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • Quo Vadis (by )
  • The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of l... (by )
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Turn of the Screw, The (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • The Trial (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • Origin of Species by Means of Natural Se... (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • The Lost Continent (by )
  • To Have And To Hold (by )
  • The Trial (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps (by )
  • Lost Continent, The (Beyond Thirty) (by )
  • The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (by )
  • Faust (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Iliad, The (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (by )
  • Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version), T... (by )
  • Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The (by )
  • Silas Marner 
  • Mrs. Dalloway (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • Silas Marner (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Bleak House (by )
  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the R... (by )
  • Democracy in America (by )
  • The genius (by )
  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • The Great Learning (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • Art of War, The (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • The Sun Also Rises (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
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