Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Baby's Abc Book 
  • Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (by )
  • Little Bo-Peep; A Nursery Rhyme Picture ... 
  • Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by )
  • The Three Bears 
  • Harrison's New Nursery Picture Book : Co... (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • The Story of the Three Bears 
  • Three Little Pigs 
  • Little Bo Peep 
  • The Story of Ferdinand (by )
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
  • Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Velveteen Rabbit; Or, How Toys Becom... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden (by )
  • The Little Red Balloon (by )
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • The Little Gingerbread Man (by )
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • Little Tot's Picture Book (by )
  • Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit... (by )
  • Fairy Tales/By Hans Christian Andersen; ... (by )
  • Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk and Other Stories 
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Green Fairy Book, The (by )
  • Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2) (by )
  • The First Days of Man, As Narrated Quite... (by )
  • Song of Hiawatha, The (by )
  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • Bambi (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • Just so Stories (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Five Children and It (by )
  • Dickens' Stories about Children Every Ch... (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (dramatic reading) (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (th... (by )
  • The Sleeping Beauty (by )
  • The Phantom Rickshaw (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know : Tales f... (by )
  • Five Children and It, Version 2 (by )
  • King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • Swiss Family Robinson, The (by )
  • The Troll Garden (by )
  • Last Fairy Tales (by )
  • The Rose and the Ring (by )
  • The History of Little Red Riding Hood 
  • The Story of David Copperfield for Child... (by )
  • Blue Fairy Book, The (by )
  • The Wonder Clock (by )
  • The Little Story-Teller : A Selection of... 
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by )
  • Piccino, And Other Child Stories (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Treasure Island (by )
  • The Story of Captain Meriwether Lewis an... (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates (by )
  • Raven, The (by )
  • General Principles of Zoology (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • The Four Million (by )
  • A Tale of Two Cities (by )
  • The Fairchild Family (by )
  • The Raven (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • Wide, Wide World, The (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • King of the Golden River, The (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • The Mysterious Island (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz : In Which the Scar... (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • The King of the Golden River (by )
  • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (by )
  • Journey to the Interior of the Earth, A (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
  • Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, The (by )
  • The King of the Golden River (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • The Count of Monte Cristo (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • More Magic Pictures of the Long Ago; Sto... (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • The Red True Story Book (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • The Land That Time Forgot (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • Room with a View, A (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • Call of the Wild, The (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • The wonderful adventures of Nils (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Fairy Tales from Shakespeare (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • The War of the Worlds (by )
  • Countess Julie (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Robinson Crusoe (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days (by )
  • The Barber of Seville; A Comic Opera in ... (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • Arms and the Man (by )
  • Story of My Life, The (by )
  • Tom Brown's schooldays (by )
  • Macbeth (by )
  • Frankenstein (dramatic reading) (by )
  • Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Cour... (by )
  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (version 2) (by )
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The Coral Island (by )
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • Rome Express, The (by )
  • Red Badge of Courage, The (by )
  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
  • Sign of the Four, The (by )
  • The Sign of the Four and Other Stories (by )
  • Devil's Pool, The (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage 
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • The Professor and Poems (by )
  • King Lear (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Man Who Would Be King, The (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • The Travels of Marco Polo (by )
  • Catch 22 a Novel (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • The Thirty-Nine Steps (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Versio... (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • Shakespeare's tragedy of Anthony and Cle... (by )
  • Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous M... (by )
  • Turn of the Screw, The (by )
  • The Grapes of Wrath (by )
  • Animal Farm (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • The Odyssey (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version), T... (by )
  • The Yellow Wallpaper (by )
  • The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise,... (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Silas Marner (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by )
  • Silas Marner (by )
  • Walden (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • The genius (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • The Great Learning (by )
  • Pilgrim's Progress, Score Chr Bunyan (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • The Prince (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Art of War, The (by )
  • The Genius (by )
  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
  • Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchause... (by )
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