Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • The House That Jack Built (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • The Story of Ferdinand (by )
  • Little Bo Peep 
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • House that Jack Built, The (by )
  • Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book 
  • Three Little Pigs 
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • The Tale of Mr. Tod (by )
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Pets and Playmates 
  • Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit... (by )
  • Twas the Night before Christmas; A Visit... (by )
  • Aesops Fables (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • Fairy Tales/By Hans Christian Andersen; ... (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • The National Nursery Book : Comprising :... 
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • Little Tot's Picture Book (by )
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Old Roly Bear (by )
  • A Apple Pie and Other Nursery Tales : Fo... 
  • Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2) (by )
  • Little Almond Blossoms : A Book of Chine... (by )
  • Ozma of Oz (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • Ozma de Oz (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars; (by )
  • The First Days of Man, As Narrated Quite... (by )
  • Bambi (by )
  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Cottage Verses for Young Readers (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • Children Stories (by )
  • Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The (by )
  • The Phantom Rickshaw (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • Dickens' Stories about Children Every Ch... (by )
  • What Shall We Do Now Over Five Hundred G... (by )
  • Jungle Book, The (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Second Jungle Book, The (by )
  • The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (by )
  • The Story of David Copperfield for Child... (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) (by )
  • The Adventures of Columbus : Early Ameri... (by )
  • Nan (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • The Swiss family Robinson (by )
  • The Second Jungle Book (by )
  • The Hunting of the Snark (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • The Blue Fairy Book (by )
  • Precious things: or, Winning words for y... (by )
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Light Princess, The (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • Tale of Two Cities, A (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Peterkin Papers, The (by )
  • A Tale of Two Cities (by )
  • The Story of Captain Meriwether Lewis an... (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • The Peterkin Papers (by )
  • Ben Comee : A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, ... (by )
  • Under the lilacs (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • Little Princess, A (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
  • Water-Babies, The (by )
  • A Journey to the Center of the Earth (by )
  • The Thousand and One Nights: The Arabian... (by )
  • Three Musketeers, The (by )
  • Journey to the Interior of the Earth, A (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (by )
  • Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, The (by )
  • Cricket on the Hearth, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • Stories of World History (by )
  • Wonderful Adventures of Nils, The (by )
  • Secret Garden, The (by )
  • Broken Vase and Other Stories, The (by )
  • More Magic Pictures of the Long Ago; Sto... (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • Call of the Wild, The (by )
  • Room with a View, A (by )
  • The Lost World (by )
  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • The Broken Vase, And Other Stories : For... 
  • The Secret Garden (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Pygmalion (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • The monster and other stories (by )
  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (by )
  • Ragged Dick : Or, Street Life in New Yor... (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • War of the Worlds, The (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (by )
  • My Antonia (by )
  • Nicholas Nickleby (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Phantom of the Opera, The (version 2) (by )
  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • Story of My Life, The (by )
  • Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Cour... (by )
  • Arms and the Man (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • Frankenstein (dramatic reading) (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • The phantom of the opera (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Co... (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (version 2) (by )
  • The Barber of Seville; A Comic Opera in ... (by )
  • Princess and the Goblin, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • Rome Express, The (by )
  • Golden Bough, The (by )
  • The Rome Express (by )
  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
  • Devil's Pool, The (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Innocents Abroad, The (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • The Sign of the Four and Other Stories (by )
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • To the Lighthouse (by )
  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • Prince and the Pauper, The (by )
  • Quo Vadis (by )
  • Metamorphosis (by )
  • Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor (by )
  • The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stor... (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • 1984 (by )
  • The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of l... (by )
  • The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • Man Who Would Be King, The (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
  • Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (by )
  • Faust I (by )
  • The Origin of Species (by )
  • Turn of the Screw, The (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • Faust (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • Lost Continent, The (Beyond Thirty) (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Silas Marner 
  • This side of paradise (by )
  • Iliad, The (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise,... (by )
  • Brothers Karamazov, The (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • Anna Karenina -2 (by )
  • Republic, The (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Anna Karenina (by )
  • The Brothers Karamazov (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Divine Comedy, The (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • The Sun Also Rises (by )
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the R... (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solom... (by )
  • Prince, The (Version 2) (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • A Raisin in the Sun Unabridged 25Th Anni... (by )
  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
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