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Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • Little Bo Peep 
  • The Little Engine That Could (by )
  • Little Bo-Peep; A Nursery Rhyme Picture ... 
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • The Story of the Three Bears 
  • Baby's Own Aesop (by )
  • Denslow's Three Bears (by )
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
  • The Story of Ferdinand (by )
  • Mother Goose's nursery rhymes : a collec... (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • House that Jack Built, The (by )
  • The Velveteen Rabbit; Or, How Toys Becom... (by )
  • Harrison's New Nursery Picture Book : Co... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • Purple Cow, The (by )
  • The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book 
  • Cinderella; Or, The Little Glass Slipper... 
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • Picture Book Garden 
  • Johnny Crow's Garden (by )
  • The National Nursery Book : Comprising :... 
  • The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • Twas the Night before Christmas; A Visit... (by )
  • Pets and Playmates 
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • The purple cow! (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Abridg... (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two Shoes : ... (by )
  • A Apple Pie and Other Nursery Tales : Fo... 
  • Bambi (by )
  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • Old King Cole Mother Goose Melodies 
  • The First Days of Man, As Narrated Quite... (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • Old King Cole (by )
  • Just so Stories (by )
  • Old Roly Bear Visits His Cousins (by )
  • Dutch Twins, The (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Jungle Book, The (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables Illustrated By Anon... (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • Bimbi : Stories for Children (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • The Sleeping Beauty (by )
  • What Shall We Do Now Over Five Hundred G... (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • Zanzibar Tales (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Puss in Boots 
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • The Swiss family Robinson (by )
  • The Story of David Copperfield for Child... (by )
  • Hunting of the Snark, The (by )
  • The Adventures of Columbus : Early Ameri... (by )
  • The Hunting of the Snark (by )
  • The Little Story-Teller : A Selection of... 
  • Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (by )
  • Swiss Family Robinson, The (by )
  • Nan (by )
  • Blue Fairy Book, The (by )
  • David Copperfield (by )
  • Precious things: or, Winning words for y... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • The story of Captain Meriwether Lewis an... (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Ben Comee; A Tale of Rogers's Rangers 17... (by )
  • Under the Lilacs (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • Under the Lilacs (by )
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (by )
  • Rocky Fork (by )
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • The Four Million (by )
  • Carrots, Just a Little Boy and a Christm... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • Little Princess, A (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • Cricket on the Hearth, The (by )
  • Journey to the Interior of the Earth, A (by )
  • Mysterious Island, The (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • A Journey to the Center of the Earth (by )
  • Wide, Wide World, The (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
  • The King of the Golden River (by )
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • Wonderful Adventures of Nils, The (by )
  • A Room with a View (by )
  • Land that Time Forgot, The (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm (by )
  • The Red True Story Book (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • The Prisoner of Zenda : Being the Histor... (by )
  • Hound of the Baskervilles, The (dramatic... (by )
  • Secret Garden, The (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • The War of the Worlds (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (version... (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Shakespeare (by )
  • A Capture the Castle (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • The monster and other stories (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Arms and the Man (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • The phantom of the opera (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • Phantom of the Opera, The (version 2) (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • The Story of My Life (by )
  • Frankenstein : Or, The Modern Prometheus... (by )
  • Frankenstein (dramatic reading) (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by )
  • The Story of My Life (by )
  • Mayor of Casterbridge, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • Devil's Pool, The (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • The Sign of the Four and Other Stories (by )
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage (by )
  • Coral Island, The (by )
  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Les Miserables (by )
  • Collected Stories of William Faulkner (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • To the Lighthouse (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • Metamorphosis, The (by )
  • Round the World on a Wheel : Being the N... (by )
  • Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor (by )
  • Quo Vadis 
  • Promised Land, The (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • 1984 (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper 
  • The Professor and Poems (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • Woman in White, The (by )
  • Origin of Species by Means of Natural Se... (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • Ben-Hur (by )
  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
  • Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,... (by )
  • Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedien... (by )
  • Idiot, The (Part 01 and 02) (by )
  • Faust (by )
  • The tragedy of Julius Caesar (by )
  • On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Versio... (by )
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • The Republic, Score Plato Rep (by )
  • War and Peace (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Iliad, The (by )
  • The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise,... (by )
  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by )
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (by )
  • The Yellow Wallpaper (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Republic, The (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Prince, The (Version 2) (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • The Genius (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • The Last of the Mohicans : a Tragedy, in... (by )
  • The Pilgrim's Progress (by )
  • Man in the Iron Mask, The (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Art of War, The (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
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