Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Baby's Own Aesop (by )
  • Velveteen Rabbit, The (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Little Bo Peep 
  • Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by )
  • Three Little Pigs 
  • Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (by )
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Little Red Hen 
  • Mother Goose's nursery rhymes : a collec... (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • The velveteen rabbit; or, How toys becom... (by )
  • Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book 
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • The Fables of Aesop (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • The National Nursery Book 
  • Fairy Tales/By Hans Christian Andersen; ... (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
  • Stories for Little Children (by )
  • The Little Gingerbread Man (by )
  • Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book (by )
  • Purple Cow, The (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • The Curious Adventures of Cinderella, Or... 
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • Old Roly Bear (by )
  • Just So Stories (version 3) (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes : ... (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2) (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories: Introducing the Li... (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two Shoes : ... (by )
  • Old Roly Bear Visits His Cousins (by )
  • Ozma de Oz (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • A Book of Discoveries. Illustrated by Go... (by )
  • Little Almond Blossoms : A Book of Chine... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The (by )
  • Lilliput Legends 
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • What Shall We Do Now Over Five Hundred G... (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • What shall we do now? Over five hundred ... (by )
  • Dickens' Stories about Children Every Ch... (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • The Tale of Lam-Ang and the Fire Giant (by )
  • Puss in Boots 
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • The Blue Fairy Book (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) (by )
  • Piccino, And Other Child Stories (by )
  • The Swiss family Robinson (by )
  • Second Jungle Book, The (by )
  • Hunting of the Snark, The (by )
  • Swiss Family Robinson, The (by )
  • Last Fairy Tales (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • Nan (by )
  • Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • Tale of Two Cities, A (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (by )
  • General Principles of Zoology (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • Under the Lilacs (by )
  • Under the lilacs (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The (by )
  • Ben Comee; A Tale of Rogers's Rangers 17... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, The (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • Children's Book of Christmas Stories, Th... (by )
  • Mysterious Island, The (by )
  • The Railway Children (by )
  • The Three Musketeers (by )
  • Jack, The Young Ranchman; Or, A Boy's Ad... (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom ... (by )
  • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (by )
  • The King of the Golden River (by )
  • Sea Fairies, The (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • The King of the Golden River (by )
  • The Thousand and One Nights: The Arabian... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
  • The Lost World (by )
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • The Magic Pudding (by )
  • Broken Vase and Other Stories, The (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
  • The Red True Story Book (by )
  • Stories of World History (by )
  • Wonderful Adventures of Nils, The (by )
  • A Room with a View (by )
  • A Room with a View (by )
  • The Time Machine (by )
  • Red true story book (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Robinson Crusoe (by )
  • Ragged Dick : Or, Street Life in New Yor... (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • A Capture the Castle (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Shakespeare (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (version... (by )
  • Nicholas Nickleby (by )
  • Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, T... (by )
  • Countess Julie (by )
  • Countess Julie (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • The monster and other stories (by )
  • Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds Are... (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Washington Square (by )
  • A Connecticut Yankee (by )
  • The Life of Abraham Lincoln 
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • Phantom of the Opera, The (version 2) (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • The Life of Abraham Lincoln 
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Co... (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands, The (by )
  • Oregon Trail, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • Innocents Abroad, The (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
  • The sign of the four and other stories (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • Rome Express, The (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
  • Collected Stories of William Faulkner (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • The Sign of the Four and Other Stories (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Metamorphosis, The (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • Uncle Tom's cabin : or, Life among the l... (by )
  • How I Found Livingstone (by )
  • Metamorphosis (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper 
  • The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of l... (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Ben-Hur (by )
  • Shakespeare's tragedy of Anthony and Cle... (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • Faust I (by )
  • Turn of the Screw, The (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • Faust (by )
  • Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (by )
  • The Odyssey (by )
  • The Grapes of Wrath (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
  • Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version), T... (by )
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by )
  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • Shakespeare's Sonnets (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • Iliad, The (by )
  • Anna Karenina (by )
  • The Iliad (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • The Yellow Wallpaper (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • War and Peace (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Art of War, The (by )
  • The Great Learning (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • The Last of the Mohicans : a Tragedy, in... (by )
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the R... (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask, An Essay (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchause... (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • The Decameron Volume 1 (by )
  • The New Atlantis (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
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