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Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Three Little Pigs 
  • Baby's Own Aesop (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • The Three Bears 
  • The Story of the Three Bears 
  • The House That Jack Built (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Mother Goose's nursery rhymes : a collec... (by )
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. (by )
  • The Story of Ferdinand (by )
  • The Tale of Mr. Tod (by )
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Adventures of Maya the Bee, The (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden (by )
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • The purple cow! (by )
  • The National Nursery Book : Comprising :... 
  • Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (by )
  • Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book (by )
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • The Curious Adventures of Cinderella, Or... 
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • A Book of Discoveries. Illustrated by Go... (by )
  • The First Days of Man, As Narrated Quite... (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories (by )
  • A Apple Pie and Other Nursery Tales : Fo... 
  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • The Green Fairy Book (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • Green Fairy Book, The (by )
  • The First Days of Man, As Narrated Quite... (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Lilliput Legends 
  • Happy Prince and Other Tales, The (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Bimbi. Stories for Children (by )
  • The Phantom Rickshaw (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (dramatic reading) (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • Five Children and It, Version 2 (by )
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
  • Dickens' Stories about Children Every Ch... (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • The Sleeping Beauty (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • The Wonder Clock (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • The Swiss family Robinson (by )
  • David Copperfield (by )
  • The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (by )
  • Hunting of the Snark, The (by )
  • Blue Fairy Book, The (by )
  • The Story of David Copperfield for Child... (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • The Little Story-Teller : A Selection of... 
  • The Second Jungle Book (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (by )
  • The Hunting of the Snark (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by )
  • A Tale of Two Cities (by )
  • Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (by )
  • Peterkin Papers, The (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • Little Princess, A (by )
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • Water-Babies, The (by )
  • The King of the Golden River (by )
  • Jack, The Young Ranchman; Or, A Boy's Ad... (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz: In which the Scare... (by )
  • Wide, Wide World, The (by )
  • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • The Mysterious Island (by )
  • The Flower and the Star and Other Storie... (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Kidnapped (by )
  • More Magic Pictures of the Long Ago; Sto... (by )
  • Room with a View, A (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • Red true story book (by )
  • A Room with a View (by )
  • Count of Monte Cristo, The (by )
  • Stories of World History (by )
  • Broken Vase and Other Stories, The (by )
  • The wonderful adventures of Nils (by )
  • The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (by )
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • The War of the Worlds (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Shakespeare (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • Countess Julie (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • Great Stories of All Nations (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • War of the Worlds, The (by )
  • White Fang (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Riddle of the Sands (by )
  • The Life of Abraham Lincoln 
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days : By Thomas Hugh... (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (version 3) (by )
  • Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (by )
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • Fathers and Sons 
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • Story of My Life, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage 
  • A Midsummer-Night's Dream (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • Rome Express, The (by )
  • Golden Bough, The (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Hamlet (by )
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • 1984 (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • Round the World on a Wheel : Being the N... (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • Lorna Doone (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • Quo Vadis 
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • How I Found Livingstone (by )
  • To the Lighthouse (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Julius Caesar (by )
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps (by )
  • Shakespeare's tragedy of Anthony and Cle... (by )
  • Idiot, The (Part 01 and 02) (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • Turn of the Screw, The (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • The Grapes of Wrath (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • The Trial (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Versio... (by )
  • The Odyssey (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • Ben-Hur (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Iliad, The (by )
  • Anna Karenina (by )
  • The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise,... (by )
  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The (by )
  • The yellow wallpaper (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • War and Peace (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • Mrs. Dalloway (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • This Side of Paradise (by )
  • War and Peace (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Nostromo (by )
  • The Genius (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Tender Buttons (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • Art of War, The (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Democracy in America (by )
  • Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solom... (by )
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