Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Baby's Lullaby Book : Mother Songs (by )
  • The Three Bears 
  • Little Bo-Peep; A Nursery Rhyme Picture ... 
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Baby's Abc Book 
  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
  • The House That Jack Built (by )
  • The Tale of Mr. Tod (by )
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • Mother Goose's nursery rhymes : a collec... (by )
  • House that Jack Built, The (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • The Story of Ferdinand (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • The Purple Cow! (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • Pets and Playmates 
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • Fairy Tales/By Hans Christian Andersen; ... (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • Aunt Friendly's Gift (by )
  • Little Tot's Picture Book (by )
  • The Tiny Picture Book 
  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
  • The Little Red Balloon (by )
  • Aesops Fables (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Abridg... (by )
  • Just So Stories (version 3) (by )
  • Old Roly Bear Visits His Cousins (by )
  • Old King Cole (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes : ... (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Five Children and It (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Happy Prince and Other Tales, The (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (dramatic reading) (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • The Sleeping Beauty (by )
  • The Tale of Lam-Ang and the Fire Giant (by )
  • Lilliput Legends 
  • Puss in Boots (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • The Adventures of Columbus : Early Ameri... (by )
  • David Copperfield (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • The Wonder Clock (by )
  • Precious things: or, Winning words for y... (by )
  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • The Troll Garden (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • The History of Little Red Riding Hood 
  • The Rose and the Ring (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Raven, The (by )
  • Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The (by )
  • Hans Brinker (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Hor... (by )
  • Under the Lilacs (by )
  • Carrots, Just a Little Boy and a Christm... (by )
  • The Children of Odin (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • Ben Comee; A Tale of Rogers's Rangers 17... (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • A Journey to the Center of the Earth (by )
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom ... (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • Railway Children, The (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz: In which the Scare... (by )
  • The Flower and the Star and Other Storie... (by )
  • Jack, The Young Ranchman; Or, A Boy's Ad... (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • The King of the Golden River (by )
  • The Thousand and One Nights: The Arabian... (by )
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (by )
  • Island of Dr. Moreau, The (by )
  • Cricket on the Hearth, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm (by )
  • The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (by )
  • The Time Machine (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • Wonderful Adventures of Nils, The (by )
  • 'Captains Courageous'' (by )
  • Broken Vase and Other Stories, The (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • Red true story book (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • Hound of the Baskervilles, The (dramatic... (by )
  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
  • The Red True Story Book (by )
  • Secret Garden, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, T... (by )
  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (by )
  • Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Shakespeare (by )
  • The War of the Worlds (by )
  • The monster and other stories (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • Great Stories of All Nations (by )
  • My Ántonia (by )
  • Robinson Crusoe (by )
  • Robinson Crusoe (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Tom Brown's School Days : By Thomas Hugh... (by )
  • Canterbury Tales, The (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by )
  • Macbeth (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by )
  • The Life of Abraham Lincoln 
  • Emma (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • Story of My Life, The (by )
  • The Phantom of the Opera (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • A Midsummer-Night's Dream (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Sign of the Four, The (by )
  • The Rome Express (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • Les Miserables (by )
  • The Road Not Taken : An Introduction To ... (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage (by )
  • Rome Express, The (by )
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • Coral Island, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper (by )
  • Round the World on a Wheel : Being the N... (by )
  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • Metamorphosis, The (by )
  • Quo vadis (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • Quo Vadis 
  • Catch 22 a Novel (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • Scarlet Pimpernel, The (by )
  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
  • Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,... (by )
  • The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (by )
  • Lost Continent, The (Beyond Thirty) (by )
  • The Odyssey (by )
  • Thirty-nine Steps, The (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • Origin of Species by Means of Natural Se... (by )
  • The Lost Continent (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Silas Marner (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • The Republic (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • This Side of Paradise (by )
  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
  • This side of paradise (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchause... (by )
  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solom... (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • Decameron, The (by )
  • The Decameron Volume 1 (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • The Genius (by )
  • Prince, The (Version 2) (by )
  • Pilgrim's Progress, Score Chr Bunyan (by )
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