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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by )
  • Denslow's Three Bears (by )
  • Mother Earth's Children; The Frolics of ... (by )
  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • The Little Red Hen 
  • Velveteen Rabbit, The (by )
  • The Velveteen Rabbit; Or, How Toys Becom... (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • Baby's Own Aesop (by )
  • Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Stories for Little Children (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (by )
  • The purple cow! (by )
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • The National Nursery Book 
  • Johnny Crow's Garden (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
  • The Curious Adventures of Cinderella, Or... 
  • The Purple Cow! (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk and Other Stories 
  • Aunt Friendly's Gift (by )
  • Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit... (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Green Fairy Book, The (by )
  • A Book of Discoveries. Illustrated by Go... (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars; (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • Bambi ṿald mayśele (by )
  • Dutch Twins, The (by )
  • Old King Cole (by )
  • Little Almond Blossoms : A Book of Chine... (by )
  • Raggedy Ann stories (by )
  • Ozma De Oz (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • Stories for Children. First Reader Grade (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • What shall we do now? Over five hundred ... (by )
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
  • Lilliput Legends 
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • Children Stories (by )
  • Dickens' Stories about Children Every Ch... (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • The Sleeping Beauty (by )
  • King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • Five Children and It, Version 2 (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • The Phantom Rickshaw (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Piccino, And Other Child Stories (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
  • The Second Jungle Book (by )
  • The Rose and the Ring (by )
  • Blue Fairy Book, The (by )
  • Swiss Family Robinson, The (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The (by )
  • Last Fairy Tales (by )
  • The Hunting of the Snark (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (by )
  • Rocky Fork (by )
  • The story of Captain Meriwether Lewis an... (by )
  • Raven, The (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • The Fairchild Family (by )
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • Winnetou I (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • Peterkin Papers, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The Three Musketeers (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • Water-Babies, The (by )
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • Invisible Man, The (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • The thousand and one nights: the Arabian... (by )
  • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (by )
  • The King of the Golden River (by )
  • Wide, Wide World, The (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Hound of the Baskervilles, The (dramatic... (by )
  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
  • A Room with a View (by )
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (by )
  • Prisoner of Zenda, The (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • The wonderful adventures of Nils (by )
  • Stories of World History (by )
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • White Fang (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Ragged Dick : Or, Street Life in New Yor... (by )
  • The War of the Worlds (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • My Ántonia (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • Robinson Crusoe (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • Arms and the Man (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days (by )
  • A Connecticut Yankee (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • The Phantom of the Opera (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • Great Expectations (version 2) (by )
  • Red Badge of Courage, The (by )
  • The sign of the four and other stories (by )
  • Les Miserables (by )
  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • Collected Stories of William Faulkner (by )
  • The Road Not Taken : An Introduction To ... (by )
  • Tempest, The (by )
  • The House Without a Key (by )
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • The Travels of Marco Polo (by )
  • Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor (by )
  • Quo Vadis 
  • Metamorphosis, The (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Uncle Tom's cabin : or, Life among the l... (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Prince and the Pauper, The (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • King Lear (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedien... (by )
  • Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,... (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • The Odyssey (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • Julius Caesar (by )
  • The Trial (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • Woman in White, The (by )
  • The Origin of Species (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
  • The Yellow Wallpaper (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Silas Marner (by )
  • Mrs. Dalloway (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • This Side of Paradise (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • The Iliad (by )
  • The Iliad (by )
  • The Brothers Karamazov (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • History of the Decline and Fall of the R... (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • New Atlantis, The (by )
  • Democracy in America (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solom... (by )
  • Art of War, The (by )
  • Decameron, The (by )
  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • The Divine Comedy (by )
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