Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Little Bo Peep 
  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. (by )
  • The velveteen rabbit; or, How toys becom... (by )
  • The Little Engine That Could (by )
  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • The Story of Ferdinand (by )
  • Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (by )
  • Mother Earth's Children; The Frolics of ... (by )
  • The Story of the Three Bears 
  • Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Denslow's Three Bears (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • Baby's Abc Book 
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book (by )
  • The Little Gingerbread Man (by )
  • Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • Aunt Friendly's Gift (by )
  • The Little Red Balloon (by )
  • Twas the Night before Christmas; A Visit... (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • The National Nursery Book : Comprising :... 
  • The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Ozma de Oz (by )
  • Old King Cole (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • The First Days of Man, As Narrated Quite... (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • Bambi (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen (by )
  • Stories for Children. First Reader Grade (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • Ozma of Oz (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
  • The Tale of Lam-Ang and the Fire Giant (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • The Sleeping Beauty (by )
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (th... (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • What shall we do now? Over five hundred ... (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know (by )
  • Lilliput Legends 
  • Cottage Verses for Young Readers (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • The Phantom Rickshaw (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • The Little Story-Teller : A Selection of... 
  • Swiss Family Robinson, The (by )
  • Piccino, And Other Child Stories (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • The Blue Fairy Book (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
  • The Swiss family Robinson (by )
  • Nan (by )
  • Blue Fairy Book, The (by )
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • The Rose and the Ring (by )
  • Last Fairy Tales (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • The Four Million (by )
  • The Peterkin Papers (by )
  • Light Princess, The (by )
  • The Children of Odin (by )
  • Ben Comee; A Tale of Rogers's Rangers 17... (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • Hans Brinker (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • Madame How and Lady Why; Or, First Lesso... (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (by )
  • Rocky Fork (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The King of the Golden River (by )
  • Mysterious Island, The (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz : In Which the Scar... (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • Journey to the Interior of the Earth, A (by )
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (by )
  • King of the Golden River, The (by )
  • Jack, The Young Ranchman; Or, A Boy's Ad... (by )
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom ... (by )
  • A Journey to the Center of the Earth (by )
  • The King of the Golden River (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • The Prisoner of Zenda (by )
  • The Lost World (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • The Land That Time Forgot (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • The Time Machine (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • 'Captains Courageous'' (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Th... (by )
  • The Broken Vase, And Other Stories : For... 
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • Countess Julie (by )
  • Great Stories of All Nations (by )
  • The monster and other stories (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds Are... (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • The War of the Worlds (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Robinson Crusoe (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • My Ántonia (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • The Story of My Life (by )
  • Frankenstein : Or, The Modern Prometheus... (by )
  • Canterbury Tales, The (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (version 3) (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days : By Thomas Hugh... (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • A Connecticut Yankee (by )
  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • Macbeth (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The Tempest (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
  • The Road Not Taken : An Introduction to ... (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • Midsummer Night's Dream, A (by )
  • Innocents Abroad, The (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • Golden Bough, The (by )
  • Devil's Pool, The (by )
  • Tempest, The (by )
  • The House Without a Key (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Man Who Would Be King, The (by )
  • Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor (by )
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • Quo Vadis (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • The Travels of Marco Polo (by )
  • The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stor... (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper 
  • The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedien... (by )
  • Woman in White, The (by )
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • Animal Farm (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • Ben-Hur (by )
  • Faust I (by )
  • Lost Continent, The (Beyond Thirty) (by )
  • The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (by )
  • Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise, The (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • The Age of Innocence (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • The Iliad (by )
  • War and Peace, Book 01: 1805 (by )
  • The Yellow Wallpaper (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • Republic, The (by )
  • War and Peace (by )
  • The Iliad (by )
  • The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise,... (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • Silas Marner 
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • The Great Learning 
  • Tender Buttons (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask, An Essay (by )
  • The Prince (by )
  • Democracy in America (by )
  • The genius (by )
  • The Sun Also Rises (by )
  • New Atlantis, The (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • The Pilgrim's Progress (by )
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