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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Mother Goose's nursery rhymes : a collec... (by )
  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by )
  • Baby's Own Aesop (by )
  • Little Bo Peep 
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Harrison's New Nursery Picture Book : Co... (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • Velveteen Rabbit, The (by )
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
  • The Three Bears 
  • Denslow's Three Bears (by )
  • Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book 
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • The National Nursery Book : Comprising :... 
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • The National Nursery Book 
  • The Fables of Aesop (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk and Other Stories 
  • Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit... (by )
  • Fairy Tales/By Hans Christian Andersen; ... (by )
  • The Little Red Balloon (by )
  • The purple cow! (by )
  • Purple Cow, The (by )
  • Little Tot's Picture Book (by )
  • Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars; (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes : ... (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • Ozma of Oz (version 3) (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • A Book of Discoveries. Illustrated by Go... (by )
  • Little Almond Blossoms : A Book of Chine... (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories: Introducing the Li... (by )
  • Bambi (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen : One of R. Ca... (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know (by )
  • Puss in Boots (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The (by )
  • Children Stories (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • The Phantom Rickshaw (by )
  • What Shall We Do Now Over Five Hundred G... (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • The Sleeping Beauty (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Nature Myths and Stories for Little Chil... (by )
  • David Copperfield (by )
  • The Swiss family Robinson (by )
  • The Hunting of the Snark (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) (by )
  • The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (by )
  • The History of Little Red Riding Hood 
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by )
  • Last Fairy Tales (by )
  • The Blue Fairy Book (by )
  • Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • The Second Jungle Book (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • The Light Princess (by )
  • Carrots, Just a Little Boy and a Christm... (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • Light Princess, The (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • The Four Million (by )
  • A Tale of Two Cities (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Hor... (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • Raven, The (by )
  • Madame How and Lady Why; Or, First Lesso... (by )
  • Tale of Two Cities, A (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • A Little Princess (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • Island of Dr. Moreau, The (by )
  • Sea Fairies, The (by )
  • Jack, The Young Ranchman; Or, A Boy's Ad... (by )
  • The thousand and one nights: the Arabian... (by )
  • The Railway Children (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • The Flower and the Star and Other Storie... (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • More Magic Pictures of the Long Ago; Sto... (by )
  • Hound of the Baskervilles, The (dramatic... (by )
  • Room with a View, A (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • More magic pictures of the long ago; sto... (by )
  • The Broken Vase, And Other Stories : For... 
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • Land that Time Forgot, The (by )
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • Broken Vase and Other Stories, The (by )
  • The Lost World (by )
  • Call of the Wild, The (by )
  • Secret Garden, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Pygmalion (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • War of the Worlds, The (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds Are... (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (version... (by )
  • Nicholas Nickleby (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • House-Boat on the Styx, A (by )
  • The Story of My Life (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
  • Story of My Life, The (by )
  • A Connecticut Yankee (by )
  • Fathers and Sons 
  • Tom Brown's schooldays (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
  • Coral Island, The (by )
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula (by )
  • The Rome Express (by )
  • Innocents Abroad, The (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • The Road Not Taken : An Introduction To ... (by )
  • Sign of the Four, The (by )
  • Blue Beard 
  • Midsummer Night's Dream, A (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • The House Without a Key (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Metamorphosis (by )
  • The Professor and Poems (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • Promised Land, The (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor (by )
  • Lorna Doone (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • The Travels of Marco Polo (by )
  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stor... (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Quo vadis (by )
  • Prince and the Pauper, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • Woman in White, The (by )
  • Scarlet Letter, The (by )
  • On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Versio... (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedien... (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • The Grapes of Wrath (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • To Have And To Hold (by )
  • Faust (by )
  • Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • The Republic, Score Plato Rep (by )
  • Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version), T... (by )
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • Iliad, The (by )
  • The Iliad (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Walden (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Anna Karenina (by )
  • The Brothers Karamazov (by )
  • The Yellow Wallpaper (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • The Prince (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • The Prince (by )
  • Tender Buttons (by )
  • Pilgrim's Progress, The (by )
  • Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • The Art of War (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • The Divine Comedy (by )
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the R... (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
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