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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Three Little Pigs 
  • The Story of the Three Bears 
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Harrison's New Nursery Picture Book : Co... (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • The Little Engine That Could (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • The House That Jack Built (by )
  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. (by )
  • Mother Goose's nursery rhymes : a collec... (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • Denslow's Three Bears (by )
  • The Tale of Mr. Tod (by )
  • Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book 
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Aesops Fables (by )
  • The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book 
  • The Fables of Aesop (by )
  • Pets and Playmates 
  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • The Little Red Balloon (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • The Purple Cow! (by )
  • Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit... (by )
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Abridg... (by )
  • A Book of Discoveries (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2) (by )
  • Bambi ṿald mayśele (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • Ozma De Oz (by )
  • Old Roly Bear (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two Shoes : ... (by )
  • Just so Stories : For Little Children (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Heroes Every Child Should Know (by )
  • Puss in Boots (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • The Phantom Rickshaw (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Bimbi. Stories for Children (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • What shall we do now? Over five hundred ... (by )
  • Five Children and It, Version 2 (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • The Phantom Rickshaw (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Nan (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • The Blue Fairy Book (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The (by )
  • Hunting of the Snark, The (by )
  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • The Little Story-Teller : A Selection of... 
  • Second Jungle Book, The (by )
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • The Swiss family Robinson (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) (by )
  • The Rose and the Ring (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Madame How and Lady Why; Or, First Lesso... (by )
  • Winnetou I (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • General Principles of Zoology (by )
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • A Tale of Two Cities (by )
  • The Fairchild Family (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • The Story of Captain Meriwether Lewis an... (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • King of the Golden River, The (by )
  • Railway Children, The (by )
  • The Thousand and One Nights: The Arabian... (by )
  • Jack, The Young Ranchman; Or, A Boy's Ad... (by )
  • Little Princess, A (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • The Mysterious Island (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • The Red True Story Book (by )
  • Hound of the Baskervilles, The (dramatic... (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (by )
  • Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Th... (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • Red true story book (by )
  • Stories of World History (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • The Magic Pudding (by )
  • Land that Time Forgot, The (by )
  • More magic pictures of the long ago; sto... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Around the World in Eighty Days (version... (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • The War of the Worlds (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (by )
  • Countess Julie (by )
  • Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds Are... (by )
  • My Antonia (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • My Ántonia (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, T... (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Riddle of the Sands (by )
  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • The Phantom of the Opera (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days : By Thomas Hugh... (by )
  • The phantom of the opera (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • Fathers and Sons 
  • Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (by )
  • Tragedy of Macbeth, The (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
  • Collected Stories of William Faulkner (by )
  • The Road Not Taken : An Introduction To ... (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • Innocents Abroad, The (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • Tempest, The (by )
  • The Sign of the Four and Other Stories (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
  • Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • 1984 (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • The Professor and Poems (by )
  • Lorna Doone (by )
  • Promised Land, The (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (by )
  • Round the World on a Wheel : Being the N... (by )
  • To the Lighthouse (by )
  • Catch 22 a Novel (by )
  • King Lear (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • Shakespeare's tragedy of Anthony and Cle... (by )
  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • The Trial (by )
  • Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous M... (by )
  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • Faust (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • The Lost Continent (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by )
  • The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise,... (by )
  • War and Peace (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • This Side of Paradise (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Divine Comedy, The (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • The Genius (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Tender Buttons (by )
  • Pilgrim's Progress, Score Chr Bunyan (by )
  • New Atlantis, The (by )
  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
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