Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Baby's Own Aesop (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
  • The Three Bears 
  • Mother Earth's Children; The Frolics of ... (by )
  • Mother Goose's nursery rhymes : a collec... (by )
  • The Little Red Hen 
  • Denslow's Three Bears (by )
  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • Baby's Lullaby Book : Mother Songs (by )
  • Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • The National Nursery Book : Comprising :... 
  • The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book 
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • The purple cow! (by )
  • Little Red Balloon (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk and Other Stories 
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • The National Nursery Book 
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • Adventures of Maya the Bee, The (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars; (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2) (by )
  • Stories for Children. First Reader Grade (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two Shoes : ... (by )
  • Little Almond Blossoms : A Book of Chine... (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen : One of R. Ca... (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Five Children and It (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (th... (by )
  • Jungle Book, The (by )
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
  • Puss in Boots (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Five Children and It, Version 2 (by )
  • Dickens' Stories about Children Every Ch... (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • The History of Little Red Riding Hood 
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Swiss Family Robinson, The (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • Blue Fairy Book, The (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
  • Nature Myths and Stories for Little Chil... (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Ben Comee; A Tale of Rogers's Rangers 17... (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • The Four Million (by )
  • Carrots, Just a Little Boy and a Christm... (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • Rocky Fork (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Winnetou I (by )
  • The Four Million (by )
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (by )
  • Mysterious Island, The (by )
  • Journey to the Interior of the Earth, A (by )
  • The Three Musketeers (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • The King of the Golden River (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • Sea Fairies, The (by )
  • The Railway Children (by )
  • Little Princess, A (by )
  • The Thousand and One Nights: The Arabian... (by )
  • Railway Children, The (by )
  • Island of Dr. Moreau, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm (by )
  • The Broken Vase, And Other Stories : For... 
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Stories of World History (by )
  • Red true story book (by )
  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • The Lost World (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • More magic pictures of the long ago; sto... (by )
  • The Prisoner of Zenda : Being the Histor... (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Kim (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, T... (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • The monster and other stories (by )
  • Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds Are... (by )
  • My Ántonia (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Canterbury Tales, The (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands (by )
  • Tragedy of Macbeth, The (by )
  • The Story of My Life (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by )
  • The Phantom of the Opera (by )
  • A Connecticut Yankee (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • House-Boat on the Styx, A (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The sign of the four and other stories (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula (by )
  • Sign of the Four, The (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • The Sign of the Four and Other Stories (by )
  • Tempest, The (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • The Coral Island (by )
  • Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • The Prince and the Pauper 
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • 1984 (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (by )
  • Lorna Doone (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • Metamorphosis (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • Quo Vadis 
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • Lost Continent, The (Beyond Thirty) (by )
  • The Grapes of Wrath (by )
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (by )
  • The Origin of Species (by )
  • Julius Caesar (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • Faust (by )
  • Woman in White, The (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Mrs. Dalloway (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • The Age of Innocence (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • The Brothers Karamazov (by )
  • Iliad, The (by )
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (by )
  • Republic, The (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Tender Buttons (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solom... (by )
  • Divine Comedy, The (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask (by )
  • Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchause... (by )
  • The genius (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask, An Essay (by )
  • Pilgrim's Progress, Score Chr Bunyan (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Prince, The (Version 2) (by )
  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
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