Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Mother Goose's nursery rhymes : a collec... (by )
  • Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (by )
  • The Tale of Mr. Tod (by )
  • Baby's Own Aesop (by )
  • Velveteen Rabbit, The (by )
  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. (by )
  • Three Little Pigs 
  • The Little Red Hen 
  • The Little Engine That Could (by )
  • Baby's Abc Book 
  • Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by )
  • Mother Earth's Children; The Frolics of ... (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Johnny Crow's Garden (by )
  • The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book 
  • Purple Cow, The (by )
  • Little Tot's Picture Book (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • Adventures of Maya the Bee, The (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • The Little Gingerbread Man (by )
  • Stories for Little Children (by )
  • Aesops Fables (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Just So Stories (version 3) (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories: Introducing the Li... (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • Stories for Children. First Reader Grade (by )
  • Dutch Twins, The (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes : ... (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Abridg... (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • Little Almond Blossoms : A Book of Chine... (by )
  • Raggedy Ann stories (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • Bimbi. Stories for Children (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • Children Stories (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • Jungle Book, The (by )
  • King Arthur and His Knights (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Precious things: or, Winning words for y... (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • The Hunting of the Snark (by )
  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • David Copperfield (by )
  • The Rose and the Ring (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Nan (by )
  • The Troll Garden (by )
  • Nature Myths and Stories for Little Chil... (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • The Story of David Copperfield for Child... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (by )
  • The Thousand and One Nights, A New Tr. B... (by )
  • Ben Comee; A Tale of Rogers's Rangers 17... (by )
  • Hans Brinker (by )
  • Winnetou I (by )
  • A Tale of Two Cities (by )
  • The Four Million (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • Madame How and Lady Why; Or, First Lesso... (by )
  • Rocky Fork (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • Carrots, Just a Little Boy and a Christm... (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Raven, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (by )
  • The Railway Children (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • The King of the Golden River (by )
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom ... (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • Little Princess, A (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • The Three Musketeers (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • Sea Fairies, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • The Red True Story Book (by )
  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • Prisoner of Zenda, The (by )
  • The Magic Pudding (by )
  • Broken Vase and Other Stories, The (by )
  • A Room with a View (by )
  • A Room with a View (by )
  • The Lost World (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • Kim (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • My Antonia (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • Countess Julie (by )
  • The War of the Worlds (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds Are... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • Frankenstein : Or, The Modern Prometheus... (by )
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • A Connecticut Yankee (by )
  • Tom Brown's schooldays (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • Midsummer Night's Dream, A (by )
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula (by )
  • Great Expectations (version 2) (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • Sign of the Four, The (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • Tempest, The (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage 
  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
  • The House Without a Key (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Prince and the Pauper, The (by )
  • The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (by )
  • The Travels of Marco Polo (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stor... (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper (by )
  • How I Found Livingstone (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • King Lear (by )
  • Promised Land, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,... (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • The Odyssey (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • Turn of the Screw, The (by )
  • Idiot, The (Part 01 and 02) (by )
  • Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous M... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by )
  • Republic, The (by )
  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • War and Peace (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • Walden (by )
  • Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version), T... (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • The Last of the Mohicans : a Tragedy, in... (by )
  • The Decameron Volume 1 (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • The Great Learning 
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • The Genius (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
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