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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • The Velveteen Rabbit; Or, How Toys Becom... (by )
  • The House That Jack Built (by )
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book 
  • Mother Earth's Children; The Frolics of ... (by )
  • Three Little Pigs 
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Denslow's Three Bears (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • Little Bo Peep 
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • The Little Red Balloon (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • The purple cow! (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • Aunt Friendly's Gift (by )
  • The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • The Purple Cow! (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Ozma De Oz (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories: Introducing the Li... (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Raggedy Ann stories (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two Shoes : ... (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • A Book of Discoveries (by )
  • Ozma of Oz (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Abridg... (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • Stories for Children. First Reader Grade (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (th... (by )
  • Dickens' Stories about Children Every Ch... (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Bimbi. Stories for Children (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • Puss in Boots (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Five Children and It, Version 2 (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (dramatic reading) (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Piccino, And Other Child Stories (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) (by )
  • The Second Jungle Book (by )
  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • Swiss Family Robinson, The (by )
  • Precious things: or, Winning words for y... (by )
  • Nature Myths and Stories for Little Chil... (by )
  • The Wonder Clock (by )
  • Hunting of the Snark, The (by )
  • The History of Little Red Riding Hood 
  • Nan (by )
  • David Copperfield (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (by )
  • Under the lilacs (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • Rocky Fork (by )
  • Under the Lilacs (by )
  • Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates (by )
  • Carrots, Just a Little Boy and a Christm... (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • The Story of Captain Meriwether Lewis an... (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • The Four Million (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • Railway Children, The (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • Mysterious Island, The (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • The Railway Children (by )
  • The thousand and one nights: the Arabian... (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz: In which the Scare... (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • Sea Fairies, The (by )
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
  • Little Princess, A (by )
  • Invisible Man, The (by )
  • Journey to the Interior of the Earth, A (by )
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • The Land That Time Forgot (by )
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • The Lost World (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • Land that Time Forgot, The (by )
  • More Magic Pictures of the Long Ago; Sto... (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • Lost World, The (by )
  • Hound of the Baskervilles, The (dramatic... (by )
  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
  • A Room with a View (by )
  • The Red True Story Book (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds Are... (by )
  • A Capture the Castle (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • The War of the Worlds (by )
  • War of the Worlds, The (by )
  • My Antonia (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
  • Ragged Dick : Or, Street Life in New Yor... (by )
  • My Ántonia (by )
  • Great Stories of All Nations (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (by )
  • Robinson Crusoe (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Canterbury Tales, The (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • A Connecticut Yankee (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • The Life of Abraham Lincoln 
  • Oregon Trail, The (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • The Barber of Seville; A Comic Opera in ... (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands (by )
  • Macbeth (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (by )
  • Collected Stories of William Faulkner (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage (by )
  • Tempest, The (by )
  • The Road Not Taken : An Introduction to ... (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • Red Badge of Courage, The (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • The House Without a Key (by )
  • Les Miserables (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • Quo Vadis (by )
  • Letters from the Earth (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper 
  • Round the World on a Wheel : Being the N... (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • Metamorphosis, The (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • Ben-Hur (by )
  • Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous M... (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • Julius Caesar (by )
  • Origin of Species by Means of Natural Se... (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • Faust (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • Lost Continent, The (Beyond Thirty) (by )
  • The Odyssey (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Anna Karenina (by )
  • Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise, The (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise,... (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • The Brothers Karamazov (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • Silas Marner (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • War and Peace (by )
  • Shakespeare's Sonnets (by )
  • This side of paradise (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solom... (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the R... (by )
  • Man in the Iron Mask, The (by )
  • Decameron, The (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Prince, The (Version 2) (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • The Sun Also Rises (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
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