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Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
  • The Little Red Hen 
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • The Tale of Mr. Tod (by )
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
  • House that Jack Built, The (by )
  • The velveteen rabbit; or, How toys becom... (by )
  • Denslow's Three Bears (by )
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • The Little Engine That Could (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by )
  • Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • Aunt Friendly's Gift (by )
  • Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit... (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • Adventures of Maya the Bee, The (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk and Other Stories 
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
  • Picture Book Garden 
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • A Book of Discoveries. Illustrated by Go... (by )
  • Ozma of Oz (version 3) (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • Bambi ṿald mayśele (by )
  • Ozma De Oz (by )
  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes : ... (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Abridg... (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • Lilliput Legends 
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Puss in Boots 
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • The Sleeping Beauty (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • The sleeping beauty (by )
  • Cottage Verses for Young Readers (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • The Phantom Rickshaw (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) (by )
  • Nature Myths and Stories for Little Chil... (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • Hunting of the Snark, The (by )
  • David Copperfield (by )
  • Blue Fairy Book, The (by )
  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • Swiss Family Robinson, The (by )
  • The Rose and the Ring (by )
  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • Last Fairy Tales (by )
  • Precious things: or, Winning words for y... (by )
  • The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (by )
  • Four Million, The (by )
  • General Principles of Zoology (by )
  • The Thousand and One Nights, A New Tr. B... (by )
  • Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Hor... (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • Ben Comee : A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, ... (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • Raven, The (by )
  • The Children of Odin (by )
  • A Tale of Two Cities (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
  • Three Musketeers, The (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (by )
  • The Thousand and One Nights: The Arabian... (by )
  • The thousand and one nights: the Arabian... (by )
  • Cricket on the Hearth, The (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz : In Which the Scar... (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
  • Wide, Wide World, The (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • The Lost World (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • Hound of the Baskervilles, The (dramatic... (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Room with a View, A (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • The Magic Pudding (by )
  • Stories of World History (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • The Broken Vase, And Other Stories : For... 
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • White Fang (by )
  • Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds Are... (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • Robinson Crusoe (by )
  • Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, T... (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • Story of My Life, The (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • Princess and the Goblin, The (by )
  • Fathers and Sons 
  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (version 2) (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • Frankenstein : Or, The Modern Prometheus... (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • House-Boat on the Styx, A (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • The phantom of the opera (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • Great Expectations (version 2) (by )
  • Collected Stories of William Faulkner (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Golden Bough, The (by )
  • The Rome Express (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
  • The Road Not Taken : An Introduction To ... (by )
  • The Coral Island (by )
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • Innocents Abroad, The (by )
  • Sign of the Four, The (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • Man Who Would Be King, The (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • Lorna Doone (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • King Lear (by )
  • Prince and the Pauper, The (by )
  • Round the World on a Wheel : Being the N... (by )
  • Metamorphosis (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
  • Julius Caesar (by )
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • Ben-Hur (by )
  • To Have And To Hold (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • Faust (by )
  • The Lost Continent (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • Walden (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise, The (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • Anna Karenina -2 (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Shakespeare's Sonnets (by )
  • The Age of Innocence (by )
  • The Iliad (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Babbitt (by )
  • Art of War, The (by )
  • Decameron, The (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solom... (by )
  • The Great Learning (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
  • Democracy in America (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Prince, The (Version 2) (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • The Prince (by )
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