Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • Little Bo-Peep; A Nursery Rhyme Picture ... 
  • Mother Goose's nursery rhymes : a collec... (by )
  • The Story of the Three Bears 
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • The Velveteen Rabbit; Or, How Toys Becom... (by )
  • House that Jack Built, The (by )
  • Harrison's New Nursery Picture Book : Co... (by )
  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
  • The Little Engine That Could (by )
  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • The Purple Cow! (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book 
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • Picture Book Garden 
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • The purple cow! (by )
  • Purple Cow, The (by )
  • The National Nursery Book 
  • Stories for Little Children (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • Pets and Playmates 
  • Aunt Friendly's Gift (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Bambi (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • Green Fairy Book, The (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • Little Almond Blossoms : A Book of Chine... (by )
  • Raggedy Ann stories (by )
  • The First Days of Man, As Narrated Quite... (by )
  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • Old Roly Bear (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • Happy Prince and Other Tales, The (by )
  • Five Children and It, Version 2 (by )
  • Puss in Boots (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Children Stories (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • The Swiss family Robinson (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • The Hunting of the Snark (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Piccino, And Other Child Stories (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • The Second Jungle Book (by )
  • The History of Little Red Riding Hood 
  • Nan (by )
  • The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (by )
  • The Little Story-Teller : A Selection of... 
  • Nature Myths and Stories for Little Chil... (by )
  • The Troll Garden (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Treasure Island (by )
  • Rocky Fork (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The (by )
  • Light Princess, The (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Hor... (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • Under the Lilacs (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (by )
  • General Principles of Zoology (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, The (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • Children's Book of Christmas Stories, Th... (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • Journey to the Interior of the Earth, A (by )
  • Sea Fairies, The (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz: In which the Scare... (by )
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (by )
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (by )
  • The Land That Time Forgot (by )
  • Land that Time Forgot, The (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • Hound of the Baskervilles, The (dramatic... (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • Prisoner of Zenda, The (by )
  • Stories of World History (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Kim (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • The monster and other stories (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • A Capture the Castle (by )
  • Robinson Crusoe (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Shakespeare (by )
  • Great Stories of All Nations (by )
  • My Ántonia (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Macbeth (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • Princess and the Goblin, The (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • The phantom of the opera (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days : By Thomas Hugh... (by )
  • Oregon Trail, The (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • Mayor of Casterbridge, The (by )
  • The Story of My Life (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The sign of the four and other stories (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Sign of the Four, The (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Coral Island, The (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • The Road Not Taken : An Introduction to ... (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • Tempest, The (by )
  • Les Miserables (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Quo Vadis (by )
  • Prince and the Pauper, The (by )
  • Metamorphosis (by )
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much (by )
  • Catch 22 a Novel (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Quo Vadis 
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Man Who Would Be King, The (by )
  • The Professor and Poems (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Tartuffe (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • Scarlet Pimpernel, The (by )
  • Woman in White, The (by )
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (by )
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
  • Thirty-nine Steps, The (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • Julius Caesar (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
  • Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise, The (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise,... (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • The Iliad (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • The Prince (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Prince, The (Version 2) (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • Tender Buttons (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask (by )
  • Art of War, The (by )
  • Decameron, The (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
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