Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Little Engine That Could (by )
  • Baby's Own Aesop (by )
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
  • The velveteen rabbit; or, How toys becom... (by )
  • Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by )
  • Denslow's Three Bears (by )
  • Little Bo-Peep; A Nursery Rhyme Picture ... 
  • Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (by )
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Three Little Pigs 
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • The Little Red Balloon (by )
  • The National Nursery Book 
  • The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • Cinderella; Or, The Little Glass Slipper... 
  • Little Red Balloon (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • Aunt Friendly's Gift (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book (by )
  • Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • Aesops Fables (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • Old Roly Bear Visits His Cousins (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • Bambi ṿald mayśele (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two Shoes : ... (by )
  • Bambi (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • Song of Hiawatha, The (by )
  • Ozma of Oz (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Abridg... (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • A Book of Discoveries. Illustrated by Go... (by )
  • The First Days of Man, As Narrated Quite... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • What shall we do now? Over five hundred ... (by )
  • Puss in Boots (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (dramatic reading) (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • The Phantom Rickshaw (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables Illustrated by Anon... (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • Dickens' Stories about Children Every Ch... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
  • The Wonder Clock (by )
  • Last Fairy Tales (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • David Copperfield (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Swiss Family Robinson, The (by )
  • The Little Story-Teller : A Selection of... 
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • Hunting of the Snark, The (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • The Second Jungle Book (by )
  • The Hunting of the Snark (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • The Four Million (by )
  • A Tale of Two Cities (by )
  • The Thousand and One Nights, A New Tr. B... (by )
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • Light Princess, The (by )
  • Ben Comee : A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, ... (by )
  • Hans Brinker; Or, The Silver Skates : A ... (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 
  • Peterkin Papers, The (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (by )
  • Carrots, Just a Little Boy and a Christm... (by )
  • Little Women (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • Little Princess, A (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • Water-Babies, The (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
  • Children's Book of Christmas Stories, Th... (by )
  • A Journey to the Center of the Earth (by )
  • The Three Musketeers (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • Wide, Wide World, The (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • Three Musketeers, The (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • The King of the Golden River (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • Red true story book (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • The wonderful adventures of Nils (by )
  • The Prisoner of Zenda : Being the Histor... (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (by )
  • The Land That Time Forgot (by )
  • Land that Time Forgot, The (by )
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • A Room with a View (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • The monster and other stories (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • My Ántonia (by )
  • War of the Worlds, The (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • Story of My Life, The (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • Arms and the Man (by )
  • Princess and the Goblin, The (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • The Story of My Life (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • Macbeth (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • The Phantom of the Opera (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Rome Express, The (by )
  • The Road Not Taken : An Introduction to ... (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • The Coral Island (by )
  • Collected Stories of William Faulkner (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • The sign of the four and other stories (by )
  • The Rome Express (by )
  • A Midsummer-Night's Dream (by )
  • Les Miserables (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Promised Land, The (by )
  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • Metamorphosis, The (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • Man Who Would Be King, The (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Catch 22 a Novel (by )
  • Lorna Doone (by )
  • Quo vadis (by )
  • Quo Vadis 
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (by )
  • Shakespeare's tragedy of Anthony and Cle... (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedien... (by )
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Shakespeare's Sonnets (by )
  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • Silas Marner 
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by )
  • This Side of Paradise (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • The Iliad (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • Mrs. Dalloway (by )
  • Walden (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Nostromo (by )
  • Divine Comedy, The (by )
  • Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchause... (by )
  • Art of War, The (by )
  • The Prince (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask (by )
  • The Prince (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • Pilgrim's Progress, The (by )
  • The Divine Comedy (by )
  • The Sun Also Rises (by )
  • The Art of War (by )
  • The Genius (by )
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