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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. (by )
  • Three Little Pigs 
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • The Little Red Hen 
  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • The Velveteen Rabbit; Or, How Toys Becom... (by )
  • House that Jack Built, The (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • The Little Engine That Could (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Baby's Own Aesop (by )
  • Denslow's Three Bears (by )
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Cinderella; Or, The Little Glass Slipper... 
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • Adventures of Maya the Bee, The (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden (by )
  • The Curious Adventures of Cinderella, Or... 
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • The Purple Cow! (by )
  • The Little Red Balloon (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • Aunt Friendly's Gift (by )
  • Twas the Night before Christmas; A Visit... (by )
  • The Little Gingerbread Man (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Bambi (by )
  • Just so Stories (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • Ozma of Oz (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories: Introducing the Li... (by )
  • Old King Cole Mother Goose Melodies 
  • The History of Little Goody Two Shoes : ... (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Abridg... (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • Ozma of Oz (version 3) (by )
  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2) (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Anne of Green Gables (dramatic reading) (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • Cottage Verses for Young Readers (by )
  • Puss in Boots (by )
  • The Phantom Rickshaw (by )
  • Zanzibar Tales (by )
  • The Sleeping Beauty (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • The Story of David Copperfield for Child... (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Nature Myths and Stories for Little Chil... (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • The Second Jungle Book (by )
  • Precious things: or, Winning words for y... (by )
  • The Troll Garden (by )
  • The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Hor... (by )
  • Tale of Two Cities, A (by )
  • Ben Comee; A Tale of Rogers's Rangers 17... (by )
  • Winnetou I (by )
  • Under the Lilacs (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • General Principles of Zoology (by )
  • Under the lilacs (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • The Four Million (by )
  • Carrots, Just a Little Boy and a Christm... (by )
  • Little Women (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • A Little Princess (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • Mysterious Island, The (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (by )
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau (by )
  • Cricket on the Hearth, The (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • Railway Children, The (by )
  • Three Musketeers, The (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • The Prisoner of Zenda (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • The Broken Vase, And Other Stories : For... 
  • Call of the Wild, The (by )
  • Stories of World History (by )
  • A Room with a View (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • More Magic Pictures of the Long Ago; Sto... (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • The Red True Story Book (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • Count of Monte Cristo, The (by )
  • Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Th... (by )
  • The Magic Pudding (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Great Stories of All Nations (by )
  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, T... (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • A Capture the Castle (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • My Antonia (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days : By Thomas Hugh... (by )
  • A Connecticut Yankee (by )
  • Tragedy of Macbeth, The (by )
  • Arms and the Man (by )
  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • The Phantom of the Opera (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • House-Boat on the Styx, A (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The Coral Island (by )
  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
  • Collected Stories of William Faulkner (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • Golden Bough, The (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage 
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Devil's Pool, The (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • The Road Not Taken : An Introduction to ... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Metamorphosis (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • The Professor and Poems (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper 
  • Quo vadis (by )
  • The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • Lorna Doone (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • King Lear (by )
  • Don Quixote - Vol. 1 (by )
  • Metamorphosis, The (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
  • To Have And To Hold (by )
  • The Lost Continent (by )
  • Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedien... (by )
  • Animal Farm (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • The Odyssey (by )
  • Turn of the Screw, The (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • Faust (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • The Trial (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Middlemarch (by )
  • The Iliad (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Anna Karenina -2 (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
  • War and Peace, Book 01: 1805 (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • War and Peace (by )
  • The Republic, Score Plato Rep (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • Shakespeare's Sonnets (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • The Decameron Volume 1 (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • Pilgrim's Progress, Score Chr Bunyan (by )
  • The Prince (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • New Atlantis, The (by )
  • The Genius (by )
  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solom... (by )
  • Divine Comedy, The (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • The Great Learning (by )
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