Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Baby's Abc Book 
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Baby's Lullaby Book : Mother Songs (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • House that Jack Built, The (by )
  • Three Little Pigs 
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • The Little Engine That Could (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • The House That Jack Built (by )
  • Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by )
  • The Story of the Three Bears 
  • The Story of Ferdinand (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden (by )
  • The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • Aunt Friendly's Gift (by )
  • The National Nursery Book : Comprising :... 
  • Purple Cow, The (by )
  • The National Nursery Book 
  • The Little Gingerbread Man (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • Twas the Night before Christmas; A Visit... (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • The Fables of Aesop (by )
  • Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen (by )
  • Dutch Twins, The (by )
  • Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2) (by )
  • Old King Cole Mother Goose Melodies 
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • Ozma de Oz (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories: Introducing the Li... (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen : One of R. Ca... (by )
  • Song of Hiawatha, The (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes : ... (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Zanzibar Tales (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (dramatic reading) (by )
  • What shall we do now? Over five hundred ... (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Bimbi : Stories for Children (by )
  • Lilliput Legends 
  • Cottage Verses for Young Readers (by )
  • King Arthur and His Knights (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • The Blue Fairy Book (by )
  • The Wonder Clock (by )
  • Piccino, And Other Child Stories (by )
  • Nan (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • The Troll Garden (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • Hunting of the Snark, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (by )
  • A Tale of Two Cities (by )
  • Winnetou I (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • The Peterkin Papers (by )
  • Light Princess, The (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • Madame How and Lady Why; Or, First Lesso... (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The Royal Book of Oz : In Which the Scar... (by )
  • Little Princess, A (by )
  • Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (by )
  • The Thousand and One Nights: The Arabian... (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • The Three Musketeers (by )
  • Cricket on the Hearth, The (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • The thousand and one nights: the Arabian... (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • Wide, Wide World, The (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • The Crescent Moon (by )
  • Island of Dr. Moreau, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • Lost World, The (by )
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • Stories of World History (by )
  • Secret Garden, The (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • The Magic Pudding (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Prisoner of Zenda, The (by )
  • The wonderful adventures of Nils (by )
  • Red true story book (by )
  • Call of the Wild, The (by )
  • A Room with a View (by )
  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • The War of the Worlds (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (by )
  • Countess Julie (by )
  • Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds Are... (by )
  • War of the Worlds, The (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (version... (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Riddle of the Sands (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by )
  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days : By Thomas Hugh... (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • Arms and the Man (by )
  • Frankenstein (dramatic reading) (by )
  • A House-Boat on the Styx (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Co... (by )
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • Canterbury Tales, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (by )
  • The Road Not Taken : An Introduction To ... (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • The Sign of the Four and Other Stories (by )
  • Golden Bough, The (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • The Travels of Marco Polo (by )
  • To the Lighthouse (by )
  • Quo Vadis 
  • Lorna Doone (by )
  • Don Quixote - Vol. 1 (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Promised Land, The (by )
  • Letters from the Earth (by )
  • Quo Vadis (by )
  • Quo vadis (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • The Professor and Poems (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
  • Thirty-nine Steps, The (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • Turn of the Screw, The (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • Idiot, The (Part 01 and 02) (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • The Grapes of Wrath (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • This side of paradise (by )
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Silas Marner 
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • War and Peace, Book 01: 1805 (by )
  • The Iliad (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • Anna Karenina (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
  • War and Peace (by )
  • Brothers Karamazov, The (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • The Sun Also Rises (by )
  • The Great Learning 
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • The Prince (by )
  • Prince, The (Version 2) (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchause... (by )
  • Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solom... (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • Art of War, The (by )
  • The Divine Comedy (by )
  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
  • Man in the Iron Mask, The (by )
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