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Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • The Story of Ferdinand (by )
  • The Story of the Three Bears 
  • Baby's Lullaby Book : Mother Songs (by )
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • The Little Red Hen 
  • The velveteen rabbit; or, How toys becom... (by )
  • The House That Jack Built (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • Baby's Abc Book 
  • Little Bo-Peep; A Nursery Rhyme Picture ... 
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • The Tale of Mr. Tod (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • Mother Goose's nursery rhymes : a collec... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Twas the Night before Christmas; A Visit... (by )
  • Aesops Fables (by )
  • Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit... (by )
  • The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book 
  • Picture Book Garden 
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • Purple Cow, The (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • The Tiny Picture Book 
  • The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • The Little Gingerbread Man (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Bambi (by )
  • Ozma of Oz (version 3) (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Abridg... (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars; (by )
  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2) (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen : One of R. Ca... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Bimbi. Stories for Children (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know : Tales f... (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • What shall we do now? Over five hundred ... (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables Illustrated By Anon... (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • Five Children and It, Version 2 (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) (by )
  • The Adventures of Columbus : Early Ameri... (by )
  • Last Fairy Tales (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by )
  • Hunting of the Snark, The (by )
  • The Hunting of the Snark (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • Piccino, And Other Child Stories (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • The Little Story-Teller : A Selection of... 
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • Light Princess, The (by )
  • The Peterkin Papers (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • Peterkin Papers, The (by )
  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • Tale of Two Cities, A (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The Island of Dr. Moreau (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • Water-Babies, The (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • The Mysterious Island (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz: In which the Scare... (by )
  • The Crescent Moon (by )
  • Mysterious Island, The (by )
  • Jack, The Young Ranchman; Or, A Boy's Ad... (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • The Three Musketeers (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • The Three Musketeers (by )
  • The Flower and the Star and Other Storie... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • The Land That Time Forgot (by )
  • Broken Vase and Other Stories, The (by )
  • Prisoner of Zenda, The (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Wonderful Adventures of Nils, The (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • Call of the Wild, The (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
  • More Magic Pictures of the Long Ago; Sto... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Around the World in Eighty Days (version... (by )
  • Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, T... (by )
  • The War of the Worlds (by )
  • Nicholas Nickleby (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds Are... (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • Great Stories of All Nations (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Tragedy of Macbeth, The (by )
  • Tom Brown's schooldays (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • Princess and the Goblin, The (by )
  • Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Cour... (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • The Story of My Life (by )
  • A House-Boat on the Styx (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • Macbeth (by )
  • A Connecticut Yankee (by )
  • The phantom of the opera (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The sign of the four and other stories (by )
  • A Midsummer-Night's Dream (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • Red Badge of Courage, The (by )
  • Sign of the Four, The (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Les Miserables (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage (by )
  • The Coral Island (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
  • Midsummer Night's Dream, A (by )
  • The Tale of Genji (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • The Professor and Poems (by )
  • The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (by )
  • Metamorphosis, The (by )
  • The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of l... (by )
  • Promised Land, The (by )
  • Man Who Would Be King, The (by )
  • Prince and the Pauper, The (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Metamorphosis (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper (by )
  • Round the World on a Wheel : Being the N... (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • Faust (by )
  • Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (by )
  • Animal Farm (by )
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps (by )
  • Julius Caesar (by )
  • Ben-Hur : A Tale of the Christ (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Anna Karenina (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • Brothers Karamazov, The (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Shakespeare's Sonnets (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • Silas Marner (by )
  • The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise,... (by )
  • The Age of Innocence (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • The Man in the Iron Mask, An Essay (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • The Genius (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • The Great Learning 
  • Babbitt (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • The Pilgrim's Progress (by )
  • Tender Buttons (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • The Prince (by )
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