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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book 
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • Baby's Lullaby Book : Mother Songs (by )
  • Velveteen Rabbit, The (by )
  • The Velveteen Rabbit; Or, How Toys Becom... (by )
  • Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Baby's Own Aesop (by )
  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • The Story of Ferdinand (by )
  • Little Bo Peep 
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Denslow's Three Bears (by )
  • The Little Engine That Could (by )
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
  • Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • Adventures of Maya the Bee, The (by )
  • The Purple Cow! (by )
  • The Little Red Balloon (by )
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit... (by )
  • The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book 
  • Little Tot's Picture Book (by )
  • The National Nursery Book : Comprising :... 
  • Stories for Little Children (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • The Tiny Picture Book 
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen (by )
  • Old King Cole (by )
  • Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2) (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • The First Days of Man, As Narrated Quite... (by )
  • Stories for Children. First Reader Grade (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars; (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • Dutch Twins, The (by )
  • Just So Stories (version 3) (by )
  • Ozma of Oz (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Five Children and It, Version 2 (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Bimbi. Stories for Children (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Children Stories (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (by )
  • Lilliput Legends 
  • Jungle Book, The (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (dramatic reading) (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Swiss Family Robinson, The (by )
  • Nature Myths and Stories for Little Chil... (by )
  • The Blue Fairy Book (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) (by )
  • The History of Little Red Riding Hood 
  • The Second Jungle Book (by )
  • The Little Story-Teller : A Selection of... 
  • The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (by )
  • Second Jungle Book, The (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
  • Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by )
  • The Swiss family Robinson (by )
  • Piccino, And Other Child Stories (by )
  • David Copperfield (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Ben Comee : A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, ... (by )
  • Under the Lilacs (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • The Story of Captain Meriwether Lewis an... (by )
  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • Carrots, Just a Little Boy and a Christm... (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • The story of Captain Meriwether Lewis an... (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (by )
  • The Fairchild Family (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The Royal Book of Oz: In which the Scare... (by )
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • Sea Fairies, The (by )
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • The Flower and the Star and Other Storie... (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • Children's Book of Christmas Stories, Th... (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (by )
  • King of the Golden River, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Wonderful Adventures of Nils, The (by )
  • More magic pictures of the long ago; sto... (by )
  • Secret Garden, The (by )
  • Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Th... (by )
  • The Broken Vase, And Other Stories : For... 
  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • The Magic Pudding (by )
  • A Room with a View (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • Ragged Dick : Or, Street Life in New Yor... (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • Robinson Crusoe (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
  • Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, T... (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds Are... (by )
  • Countess Julie (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Shakespeare (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • Nicholas Nickleby (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Riddle of the Sands (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • Tom Brown's schooldays (by )
  • The Life of Abraham Lincoln 
  • Arms and the Man (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • Oregon Trail, The (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • Phantom of the Opera, The (version 2) (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands (by )
  • Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Cour... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • The Coral Island (by )
  • The Sign of the Four and Other Stories (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Sign of the Four, The (by )
  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • Coral Island, The (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Golden Bough, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • Letters from the Earth (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Promised Land, The (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • To the Lighthouse (by )
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • How I Found Livingstone (by )
  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • 1984 (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous M... (by )
  • Animal Farm (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps (by )
  • Ben-Hur (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • Idiot, The (Part 01 and 02) (by )
  • Shakespeare's tragedy of Anthony and Cle... (by )
  • The Origin of Species (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Mrs. Dalloway (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • The Brothers Karamazov (by )
  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • War and Peace, Book 01: 1805 (by )
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by )
  • This Side of Paradise (by )
  • Anna Karenina -2 (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • The genius (by )
  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
  • The Pilgrim's Progress (by )
  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
  • The Art of War (by )
  • Pilgrim's Progress, Score Chr Bunyan (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • The Prince (by )
  • The Last of the Mohicans : a Tragedy, in... (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • The Decameron Volume 1 (by )
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