Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • The Little Red Hen 
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
  • Little Bo-Peep; A Nursery Rhyme Picture ... 
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • Mother Goose's nursery rhymes : a collec... (by )
  • Baby's Lullaby Book : Mother Songs (by )
  • Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • The Little Engine That Could (by )
  • Baby's Abc Book 
  • The Three Bears 
  • The House That Jack Built (by )
  • Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (by )
  • Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book 
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk and Other Stories 
  • Little Tot's Picture Book (by )
  • The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • The National Nursery Book 
  • The Little Gingerbread Man (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • Purple Cow, The (by )
  • Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • Aunt Friendly's Gift (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Song of Hiawatha, The (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars (by )
  • Green Fairy Book, The (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories (by )
  • Bambi (by )
  • Stories for Children. First Reader Grade (by )
  • Bambi ṿald mayśele (by )
  • A Book of Discoveries. Illustrated by Go... (by )
  • The First Days of Man, As Narrated Quite... (by )
  • Just so Stories : For Little Children (by )
  • Little Almond Blossoms : A Book of Chine... (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • A Apple Pie and Other Nursery Tales : Fo... 
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (th... (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • Cottage Verses for Young Readers (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • The Phantom Rickshaw (by )
  • Bimbi. Stories for Children (by )
  • Bimbi : Stories for Children (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Nature Myths and Stories for Little Chil... (by )
  • Hunting of the Snark, The (by )
  • The Rose and the Ring (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • The Hunting of the Snark (by )
  • Blue Fairy Book, The (by )
  • David Copperfield (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The (by )
  • The Blue Fairy Book (by )
  • The History of Little Red Riding Hood 
  • The Wonder Clock (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • Under the lilacs (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • The Four Million (by )
  • Tale of Two Cities, A (by )
  • Carrots, Just a Little Boy and a Christm... (by )
  • Raven, The (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Hor... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • Jack, The Young Ranchman; Or, A Boy's Ad... (by )
  • King of the Golden River, The (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • Wide, Wide World, The (by )
  • The Railway Children (by )
  • Railway Children, The (by )
  • Water-Babies, The (by )
  • Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (by )
  • Cricket on the Hearth, The (by )
  • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (by )
  • Island of Dr. Moreau, The (by )
  • Sea Fairies, The (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Red true story book (by )
  • Call of the Wild, The (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
  • More magic pictures of the long ago; sto... (by )
  • Count of Monte Cristo, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • My Ántonia (by )
  • The monster and other stories (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Countess Julie (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • A Capture the Castle (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Macbeth (by )
  • Fathers and Sons 
  • The Life of Abraham Lincoln 
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • Princess and the Goblin, The (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • Arms and the Man (by )
  • The Story of My Life (by )
  • Mayor of Casterbridge, The (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days : By Thomas Hugh... (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The Tempest (by )
  • The Coral Island (by )
  • The Road Not Taken : An Introduction to ... (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
  • Great Expectations (version 2) (by )
  • The sign of the four and other stories (by )
  • Coral Island, The (by )
  • Les Miserables (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage 
  • The Rome Express (by )
  • Innocents Abroad, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • The Travels of Marco Polo (by )
  • To the Lighthouse (by )
  • The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of l... (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • Quo Vadis 
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper 
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Scarlet Pimpernel, The (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • Scarlet Letter, The (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • The Odyssey (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • Faust (by )
  • The Trial (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Versio... (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • Julius Caesar (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • The Republic (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Iliad, The (by )
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • Silas Marner (by )
  • The Iliad (by )
  • The yellow wallpaper (by )
  • Anna Karenina (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • The Brothers Karamazov (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the R... (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask (by )
  • The Art of War (by )
  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • The Great Learning (by )
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