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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • The Little Red Hen 
  • Baby's Lullaby Book : Mother Songs (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Harrison's New Nursery Picture Book : Co... (by )
  • Baby's Abc Book 
  • Velveteen Rabbit, The (by )
  • The Story of Ferdinand (by )
  • The Velveteen Rabbit; Or, How Toys Becom... (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book 
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • Little Bo Peep 
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • Adventures of Maya the Bee, The (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk and Other Stories 
  • The Tiny Picture Book 
  • Purple Cow, The (by )
  • The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book 
  • Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book (by )
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • The purple cow! (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (by )
  • Little Tot's Picture Book (by )
  • The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Pollyanna (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • Old King Cole Mother Goose Melodies 
  • Ozma of Oz (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Ozma of Oz (version 3) (by )
  • Raggedy Ann stories (by )
  • Bambi (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • Green Fairy Book, The (by )
  • Just so Stories (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Jungle Book, The (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (dramatic reading) (by )
  • Puss in Boots (by )
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (th... (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • Cottage Verses for Young Readers (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know : Tales f... (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • The Tale of Lam-Ang and the Fire Giant (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • The Troll Garden (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (by )
  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
  • Blue Fairy Book, The (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • The History of Little Red Riding Hood 
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) (by )
  • Precious things: or, Winning words for y... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Hans Brinker; Or, The Silver Skates : A ... (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • Under the Lilacs (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The (by )
  • Hans Brinker (by )
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by )
  • Peterkin Papers, The (by )
  • The Four Million (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • Under the lilacs (by )
  • General Principles of Zoology (by )
  • The Children of Odin (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • The Mysterious Island (by )
  • A Journey to the Center of the Earth (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz: In which the Scare... (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • Invisible Man, The (by )
  • King of the Golden River, The (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • The Three Musketeers (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • 'Captains Courageous'' (by )
  • Land that Time Forgot, The (by )
  • More magic pictures of the long ago; sto... (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • The Broken Vase, And Other Stories : For... 
  • Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Th... (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • The Red True Story Book (by )
  • Lost World, The (by )
  • The Prisoner of Zenda : Being the Histor... (by )
  • The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (by )
  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • The monster and other stories (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, T... (by )
  • War of the Worlds, The (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Tom Brown's School Days (by )
  • The Story of My Life (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
  • Fathers and Sons 
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • The Life of Abraham Lincoln 
  • Princess and the Goblin, The (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • A Midsummer-Night's Dream (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
  • Tempest, The (by )
  • Great Expectations (version 2) (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula (by )
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Letters from the Earth (by )
  • Lorna Doone (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • How I Found Livingstone (by )
  • Round the World on a Wheel : Being the N... (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Prince and the Pauper, The (by )
  • To the Lighthouse (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • The Travels of Marco Polo (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • The Idiot (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • Faust (by )
  • Woman in White, The (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
  • The Odyssey (by )
  • The tragedy of Julius Caesar (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Anna Karenina (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Silas Marner 
  • Utopia (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • The Yellow Wallpaper (by )
  • Shakespeare's Sonnets (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Silas Marner (by )
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (by )
  • The Iliad (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • Man in the Iron Mask, The (by )
  • Pilgrim's Progress, Score Chr Bunyan (by )
  • The Divine Comedy (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • The Pilgrim's Progress (by )
  • Decameron, The (by )
  • Tender Buttons (by )
  • Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (by )
  • The Great Learning 
  • Babbitt (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • Pilgrim's Progress, The (by )
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