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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • House that Jack Built, The (by )
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • Baby's Own Aesop (by )
  • The Velveteen Rabbit; Or, How Toys Becom... (by )
  • Denslow's Three Bears (by )
  • Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book 
  • The velveteen rabbit; or, How toys becom... (by )
  • Three Little Pigs 
  • The Tale of Mr. Tod (by )
  • The Story of the Three Bears 
  • The Little Engine That Could (by )
  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Mother Earth's Children; The Frolics of ... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
  • The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book 
  • Purple Cow, The (by )
  • Little Red Balloon (by )
  • The Fables of Aesop (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • The Purple Cow! (by )
  • The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • The Little Gingerbread Man (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Ozma of Oz (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • Just So Stories (version 3) (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes : ... (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • Little Almond Blossoms : A Book of Chine... (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • A Apple Pie and Other Nursery Tales : Fo... 
  • A Book of Discoveries (by )
  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • Just so Stories (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • Dickens' Stories about Children Every Ch... (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • Five Children and It, Version 2 (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Zanzibar Tales (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know : Tales f... (by )
  • Heidi (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • The Rose and the Ring (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • Swiss Family Robinson, The (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • The Second Jungle Book (by )
  • Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The (by )
  • The Hunting of the Snark (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • The Wonder Clock (by )
  • The Blue Fairy Book (by )
  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
  • Second Jungle Book, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Raven, The (by )
  • Peterkin Papers, The (by )
  • Four Million, The (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Under the lilacs (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • General Principles of Zoology (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • Ben Comee : A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, ... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • Little Princess, A (by )
  • Island of Dr. Moreau, The (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz : In Which the Scar... (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • Three Musketeers, The (by )
  • A Journey to the Center of the Earth (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Count of Monte Cristo, The (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • Hound of the Baskervilles, The (dramatic... (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • The Land That Time Forgot (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • The wonderful adventures of Nils (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Red true story book (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • The Prisoner of Zenda (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, T... (by )
  • Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds Are... (by )
  • Nicholas Nickleby (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • The monster and other stories (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Robinson Crusoe (by )
  • Robinson Crusoe (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • War of the Worlds, The (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Washington Square (by )
  • Macbeth (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • Story of My Life, The (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • A Connecticut Yankee (by )
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by )
  • Fathers and Sons 
  • Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (by )
  • Arms and the Man (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • Collected Stories of William Faulkner (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • Blue Beard 
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • Tempest, The (by )
  • Great Expectations (version 2) (by )
  • Rome Express, The (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • The Road Not Taken : An Introduction to ... (by )
  • Coral Island, The (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • The Sign of the Four and Other Stories (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • The Travels of Marco Polo (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper 
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • 1984 (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • Metamorphosis, The (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • Quo vadis (by )
  • The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Faust (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • Lost Continent, The (Beyond Thirty) (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (by )
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
  • Animal Farm (by )
  • Thirty-nine Steps, The (by )
  • The tragedy of Julius Caesar (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • The yellow wallpaper (by )
  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
  • Silas Marner (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Silas Marner 
  • The Brothers Karamazov (by )
  • Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version), T... (by )
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (by )
  • The Republic, Score Plato Rep (by )
  • War and Peace (by )
  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • The Sun Also Rises (by )
  • The Genius (by )
  • The New Atlantis (by )
  • Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchause... (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • The Decameron Volume 1 (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • New Atlantis, The (by )
  • The Prince (by )
  • Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (by )
  • Pilgrim's Progress, Score Chr Bunyan (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
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