Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
  • The Velveteen Rabbit; Or, How Toys Becom... (by )
  • The Little Red Hen 
  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • The velveteen rabbit; or, How toys becom... (by )
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • Little Bo Peep 
  • Mother Goose's nursery rhymes : a collec... (by )
  • Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Story of the Three Bears 
  • Velveteen Rabbit, The (by )
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • Baby's Own Aesop (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Purple Cow, The (by )
  • The Little Gingerbread Man (by )
  • Little Red Balloon (by )
  • Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book (by )
  • The Curious Adventures of Cinderella, Or... 
  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
  • Fairy Tales/By Hans Christian Andersen; ... (by )
  • Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit... (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • Aesops Fables (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • Adventures of Maya the Bee, The (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen : One of R. Ca... (by )
  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • Old King Cole (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • A Book of Discoveries. Illustrated by Go... (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • Old Roly Bear (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • Old King Cole Mother Goose Melodies 
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Cottage Verses for Young Readers (by )
  • Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Bimbi : Stories for Children (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • What Shall We Do Now Over Five Hundred G... (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (th... (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • Dickens' Stories about Children Every Ch... (by )
  • Puss in Boots (by )
  • Lilliput Legends 
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • Second Jungle Book, The (by )
  • The Hunting of the Snark (by )
  • Blue Fairy Book, The (by )
  • The History of Little Red Riding Hood 
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • The Adventures of Columbus : Early Ameri... (by )
  • Nan (by )
  • Nature Myths and Stories for Little Chil... (by )
  • The Second Jungle Book (by )
  • Last Fairy Tales (by )
  • Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Tale of Two Cities, A (by )
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (by )
  • The Fairchild Family (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • Winnetou I (by )
  • A Tale of Two Cities (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (by )
  • The Mysterious Island (by )
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz : In Which the Scar... (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • Children's Book of Christmas Stories, Th... (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
  • The Thousand and One Nights: The Arabian... (by )
  • Three Musketeers, The (by )
  • King of the Golden River, The (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • The Lost World (by )
  • Call of the Wild, The (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • The Time Machine (by )
  • A Room with a View (by )
  • More magic pictures of the long ago; sto... (by )
  • Red true story book (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • 'Captains Courageous'' (by )
  • The wonderful adventures of Nils (by )
  • Count of Monte Cristo, The (by )
  • Broken Vase and Other Stories, The (by )
  • Prisoner of Zenda, The (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • Ragged Dick : Or, Street Life in New Yor... (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Robinson Crusoe (by )
  • Nicholas Nickleby (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • Countess Julie (by )
  • Countess Julie (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • A Capture the Castle (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Riddle of the Sands (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
  • Princess and the Goblin, The (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • Canterbury Tales, The (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands, The (by )
  • Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (by )
  • Phantom of the Opera, The (version 2) (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • A House-Boat on the Styx (by )
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Co... (by )
  • Frankenstein : Or, The Modern Prometheus... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The Rome Express (by )
  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
  • The Road Not Taken : An Introduction to ... (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Rome Express, The (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Great Expectations (version 2) (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • The Coral Island (by )
  • Blue Beard 
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • Letters from the Earth (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • Metamorphosis (by )
  • Round the World on a Wheel : Being the N... (by )
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • Uncle Tom's cabin : or, Life among the l... (by )
  • Promised Land, The (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • Lorna Doone (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Idiot, The (Part 01 and 02) (by )
  • The Grapes of Wrath (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • The Trial (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • Woman in White, The (by )
  • Thirty-nine Steps, The (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • Faust (by )
  • Shakespeare's tragedy of Anthony and Cle... (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • Brothers Karamazov, The (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise, The (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • Iliad, The (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • Anna Karenina (by )
  • Walden (by )
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Babbitt (by )
  • Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (by )
  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the R... (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • The genius (by )
  • Art of War, The (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solom... (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Prince, The (Version 2) (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
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