Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Mother Earth's Children; The Frolics of ... (by )
  • The Three Bears 
  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • The Tale of Mr. Tod (by )
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Little Bo Peep 
  • The Velveteen Rabbit; Or, How Toys Becom... (by )
  • Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book 
  • Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Story of the Three Bears 
  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
  • Baby's Lullaby Book : Mother Songs (by )
  • Baby's Abc Book 
  • Baby's Own Aesop (by )
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Stories for Little Children (by )
  • Adventures of Maya the Bee, The (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • Aesops Fables (by )
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • Cinderella; Or, The Little Glass Slipper... 
  • The purple cow! (by )
  • The National Nursery Book : Comprising :... 
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book (by )
  • Little Red Balloon (by )
  • The Little Red Balloon (by )
  • The Fables of Aesop (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Bambi ṿald mayśele (by )
  • Bambi (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • Just So Stories (version 3) (by )
  • Old King Cole (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes : ... (by )
  • Old King Cole Mother Goose Melodies 
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2) (by )
  • Dutch Twins, The (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen : One of R. Ca... (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • Stories for Children. First Reader Grade (by )
  • Old Roly Bear Visits His Cousins (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • Dickens' Stories about Children Every Ch... (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Lilliput Legends 
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by )
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • The Wonder Clock (by )
  • Piccino, And Other Child Stories (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
  • Nature Myths and Stories for Little Chil... (by )
  • Precious things: or, Winning words for y... (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • Hunting of the Snark, The (by )
  • The History of Little Red Riding Hood 
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • The Rose and the Ring (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (by )
  • Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The (by )
  • General Principles of Zoology (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • Hans Brinker; Or, The Silver Skates : A ... (by )
  • Winnetou I (by )
  • Ben Comee; A Tale of Rogers's Rangers 17... (by )
  • Under the Lilacs (by )
  • Raven, The (by )
  • The Story of Captain Meriwether Lewis an... (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The Railway Children (by )
  • The Three Musketeers (by )
  • Wide, Wide World, The (by )
  • Journey to the Interior of the Earth, A (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • King of the Golden River, The (by )
  • The Crescent Moon (by )
  • Three Musketeers, The (by )
  • A Journey to the Center of the Earth (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • The Land That Time Forgot (by )
  • 'Captains Courageous'' (by )
  • Land that Time Forgot, The (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
  • The Red True Story Book (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • Stories of World History (by )
  • Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Th... (by )
  • Kim (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • My Antonia (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Robinson Crusoe (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
  • Ragged Dick : Or, Street Life in New Yor... (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Shakespeare (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Great Stories of All Nations (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • The War of the Worlds (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands (by )
  • Story of My Life, The (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
  • Mayor of Casterbridge, The (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (version 3) (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • Fathers and Sons 
  • Emma (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
  • Innocents Abroad, The (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Rome Express, The (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Midsummer Night's Dream, A (by )
  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
  • Collected Stories of William Faulkner (by )
  • A Midsummer-Night's Dream (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stor... (by )
  • Prince and the Pauper, The (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • The Professor and Poems (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of l... (by )
  • How I Found Livingstone (by )
  • Quo Vadis 
  • Man Who Would Be King, The (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • The Grapes of Wrath (by )
  • The Origin of Species (by )
  • Ben-Hur : A Tale of the Christ (by )
  • The Lost Continent (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • Faust (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • Turn of the Screw, The (by )
  • Faust I (by )
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (by )
  • Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous M... (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Anna Karenina -2 (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • War and Peace (by )
  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • Shakespeare's Sonnets (by )
  • The Age of Innocence (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • The Iliad (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • Art of War, The (by )
  • A Raisin in the Sun Unabridged 25Th Anni... (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchause... (by )
  • Pilgrim's Progress, The (by )
  • The Prince (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • The Genius (by )
  • The Prince (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask, An Essay (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Decameron, The (by )
  • The Decameron Volume 1 (by )
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