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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Three Little Pigs 
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • The House That Jack Built (by )
  • Baby's Lullaby Book : Mother Songs (by )
  • Velveteen Rabbit, The (by )
  • Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • The Story of Ferdinand (by )
  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (by )
  • Mother Earth's Children; The Frolics of ... (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book 
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Top Titles for Age 6


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


  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two Shoes : ... (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • Old King Cole Mother Goose Melodies 
  • Just so Stories (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • A Book of Discoveries (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • Ozma of Oz (version 3) (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables Illustrated by Anon... (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know (by )
  • The Tale of Lam-Ang and the Fire Giant (by )
  • Puss in Boots 
  • Children Stories (by )
  • Bimbi : Stories for Children (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (by )
  • Zanzibar Tales (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • Cottage Verses for Young Readers (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • The Hunting of the Snark (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (by )
  • Nature Myths and Stories for Little Chil... (by )
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • The Little Story-Teller : A Selection of... 
  • The Second Jungle Book (by )
  • The Adventures of Columbus : Early Ameri... (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Last Fairy Tales (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • Precious things: or, Winning words for y... (by )
  • Swiss Family Robinson, The (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) (by )
  • Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • General Principles of Zoology (by )
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by )
  • A Tale of Two Cities (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • Madame How and Lady Why; Or, First Lesso... (by )
  • Under the Lilacs (by )
  • The Four Million (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • The Children of Odin (by )
  • Hans Brinker; Or, The Silver Skates : A ... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • King of the Golden River, The (by )
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz : In Which the Scar... (by )
  • Invisible Man, The (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • The Railway Children (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (by )
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • The Mysterious Island (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Red true story book (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • 'Captains Courageous'' (by )
  • Wonderful Adventures of Nils, The (by )
  • The Magic Pudding (by )
  • The Prisoner of Zenda : Being the Histor... (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • Prisoner of Zenda, The (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm (by )
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
  • Hound of the Baskervilles, The (dramatic... (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • The Red True Story Book (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • Robinson Crusoe (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • My Ántonia (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds Are... (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • Great Stories of All Nations (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Riddle of the Sands, The (by )
  • Macbeth (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • Tragedy of Macbeth, The (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • Frankenstein (dramatic reading) (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Collected Stories of William Faulkner (by )
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • Sign of the Four, The (by )
  • Golden Bough, The (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • The Tale of Genji (by )
  • Rome Express, The (by )
  • Midsummer Night's Dream, A (by )
  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
  • Innocents Abroad, The (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


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


  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (by )
  • The tragedy of Julius Caesar (by )
  • Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedien... (by )
  • The Origin of Species (by )
  • The Lost Continent (by )
  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • Woman in White, The (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • Scarlet Pimpernel, The (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • The Republic (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Silas Marner (by )
  • Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise, The (by )
  • The yellow wallpaper (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version), T... (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Anna Karenina (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • The Republic, Score Plato Rep (by )
  • War and Peace (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • The Divine Comedy (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
  • The Pilgrim's Progress (by )
  • The Great Learning (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • The Prince (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
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