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Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • The House That Jack Built (by )
  • Little Bo-Peep; A Nursery Rhyme Picture ... 
  • Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book 
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • The Velveteen Rabbit; Or, How Toys Becom... (by )
  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • Baby's Own Aesop (by )
  • Baby's Abc Book 
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • The Little Engine That Could (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Aunt Friendly's Gift (by )
  • Stories for Little Children (by )
  • Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • The National Nursery Book : Comprising :... 
  • The Tiny Picture Book 
  • Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit... (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • Adventures of Maya the Bee, The (by )
  • Aesops Fables (by )
  • Pets and Playmates 
  • The Curious Adventures of Cinderella, Or... 
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Old King Cole (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes : ... (by )
  • Bambi ṿald mayśele (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • Ozma de Oz (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • Old King Cole Mother Goose Melodies 
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • Song of Hiawatha, The (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Heroes Every Child Should Know : Tales f... (by )
  • Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The (by )
  • Puss in Boots (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Bimbi. Stories for Children (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Dickens' Stories about Children Every Ch... (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • The Sleeping Beauty (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • Bimbi : Stories for Children (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Zanzibar Tales (by )
  • Heidi (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Piccino, And Other Child Stories (by )
  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • Second Jungle Book, The (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • The Swiss family Robinson (by )
  • The Adventures of Columbus : Early Ameri... (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Nan (by )
  • David Copperfield (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • Hunting of the Snark, The (by )
  • The Rose and the Ring (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by )
  • Hans Brinker (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (by )
  • Under the Lilacs (by )
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (by )
  • Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The (by )
  • Raven, The (by )
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (by )
  • The Prince and the Page (by )
  • The Peterkin Papers (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • Four Million, The (by )
  • Little Women (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • Cricket on the Hearth, The (by )
  • The King of the Golden River (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz : In Which the Scar... (by )
  • Jack, The Young Ranchman; Or, A Boy's Ad... (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz: In which the Scare... (by )
  • The Flower and the Star and Other Storie... (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • A Journey to the Center of the Earth (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Th... (by )
  • The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • A Room with a View (by )
  • 'Captains Courageous'' (by )
  • Red true story book (by )
  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
  • Secret Garden, The (by )
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (by )
  • Land that Time Forgot, The (by )
  • Count of Monte Cristo, The (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • Kim (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Fairy Tales from Shakespeare (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (version... (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • Great Stories of All Nations (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Ragged Dick : Or, Street Life in New Yor... (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • My Antonia (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Cour... (by )
  • Frankenstein (dramatic reading) (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • The phantom of the opera (by )
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (version 3) (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • A House-Boat on the Styx (by )
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by )
  • The Canterbury Tales (by )
  • Canterbury Tales, The (by )
  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • Emma (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • Les Miserables (by )
  • Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (by )
  • The Tale of Genji (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • The Coral Island (by )
  • The sign of the four and other stories (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
  • Innocents Abroad, The (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • Coral Island, The (by )
  • Collected Stories of William Faulkner (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Letters from the Earth (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stor... (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • 1984 (by )
  • Prince and the Pauper, The (by )
  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • Quo Vadis 
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • Quo Vadis (by )
  • King Lear (by )
  • Don Quixote - Vol. 1 (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Shakespeare's tragedy of Anthony and Cle... (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • Julius Caesar (by )
  • Turn of the Screw, The (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • Thirty-nine Steps, The (by )
  • Origin of Species by Means of Natural Se... (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps (by )
  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • Faust I (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • Faust (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Silas Marner (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • Brothers Karamazov, The (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise, The (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise,... (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • The Divine Comedy (by )
  • Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (by )
  • The New Atlantis (by )
  • The genius (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchause... (by )
  • Art of War, The (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Decameron, The (by )
  • The Sun Also Rises (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
  • The Great Learning (by )
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