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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Velveteen Rabbit, The (by )
  • Baby's Lullaby Book : Mother Songs (by )
  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
  • Little Bo-Peep; A Nursery Rhyme Picture ... 
  • Harrison's New Nursery Picture Book : Co... (by )
  • The Little Red Hen 
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book 
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Mother Goose's nursery rhymes : a collec... (by )
  • The Three Bears 
  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. (by )
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Johnny Crow's Garden (by )
  • The Tiny Picture Book 
  • Aesops Fables (by )
  • Picture Book Garden 
  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • The National Nursery Book 
  • The Curious Adventures of Cinderella, Or... 
  • The Purple Cow! (by )
  • Cinderella; Or, The Little Glass Slipper... 
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • The Little Red Balloon (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Just so Stories (by )
  • Stories for Children. First Reader Grade (by )
  • Old King Cole Mother Goose Melodies 
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2) (by )
  • Bambi ṿald mayśele (by )
  • Just so Stories : For Little Children (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two Shoes : ... (by )
  • The First Days of Man, As Narrated Quite... (by )
  • Bambi (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • Old King Cole (by )
  • Ozma of Oz (version 3) (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Happy Prince and Other Tales, The (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • What shall we do now? Over five hundred ... (by )
  • The Sleeping Beauty (by )
  • Puss in Boots (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • Lilliput Legends 
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The (by )
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (dramatic reading) (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • The Troll Garden (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • The Rose and the Ring (by )
  • Precious things: or, Winning words for y... (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (by )
  • The Hunting of the Snark (by )
  • The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (by )
  • Piccino, And Other Child Stories (by )
  • Swiss Family Robinson, The (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • The History of Little Red Riding Hood 
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • Blue Fairy Book, The (by )
  • Second Jungle Book, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Rocky Fork (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • The Four Million (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (by )
  • Under the lilacs (by )
  • A Tale of Two Cities (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • The Children of Odin (by )
  • The Peterkin Papers (by )
  • Light Princess, The (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The Island of Dr. Moreau (by )
  • The Mysterious Island (by )
  • Journey to the Interior of the Earth, A (by )
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom ... (by )
  • The King of the Golden River (by )
  • The Three Musketeers (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
  • The Three Musketeers (by )
  • A Journey to the Center of the Earth (by )
  • Three Musketeers, The (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz: In which the Scare... (by )
  • King of the Golden River, The (by )
  • The thousand and one nights: the Arabian... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • Land that Time Forgot, The (by )
  • The Magic Pudding (by )
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • Room with a View, A (by )
  • The wonderful adventures of Nils (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
  • The Land That Time Forgot (by )
  • More magic pictures of the long ago; sto... (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • Secret Garden, The (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • White Fang (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • War of the Worlds, The (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • The monster and other stories (by )
  • My Antonia (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Countess Julie (by )
  • My Ántonia (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • Macbeth (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Cour... (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • Arms and the Man (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • Arms and the Man (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • The Barber of Seville; A Comic Opera in ... (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands, The (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The Rome Express (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • The House Without a Key (by )
  • Rome Express, The (by )
  • The Tale of Genji (by )
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • Devil's Pool, The (by )
  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
  • A Midsummer-Night's Dream (by )
  • Innocents Abroad, The (by )
  • The sign of the four and other stories (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • The Coral Island (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • The Travels of Marco Polo (by )
  • How I Found Livingstone (by )
  • Catch 22 a Novel (by )
  • Promised Land, The (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • Metamorphosis (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • Letters from the Earth (by )
  • Quo Vadis (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • Uncle Tom's cabin : or, Life among the l... (by )
  • Don Quixote - Vol. 1 (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Versio... (by )
  • Ben-Hur : A Tale of the Christ (by )
  • Thirty-nine Steps, The (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • Faust (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • Ben-Hur (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,... (by )
  • The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (by )
  • Woman in White, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Silas Marner (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • This Side of Paradise (by )
  • The Republic (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Republic, The (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • War and Peace (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Utopia (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Democracy in America (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • The Sun Also Rises (by )
  • Tender Buttons (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • The Pilgrim's Progress (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • The Great Learning 
  • Decameron, The (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • The Divine Comedy (by )
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