Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5

The Three Bears
Tale of Peter Rabbit (by Potter, Beatrix)
Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by Brooke, Leonard Leslie)
The Story of the Three Bears
Three Blind Mice (by Ivimey, John William)
House that Jack Built, The (by Unknown)
The Velveteen Rabbit; Or, How Toys Becom... (by Bianco, Margery Williams, 1881-1944)
The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. (by Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901, Ill)
Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by Goldsmith, Oliver)
The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by Leonard Leslie Brooke)
The House That Jack Built (by Caldecott, Randolph)
The Ugly Duckling (by Andersen, Hans Christian)
Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (by Potter, Beatrix)
Mother Earth's Children; The Frolics of ... (by Gordon, Elizabeth)

Top Titles for Age 6

Adventures of Sonny Bear (by Fox, Frances Margaret)
Stories for Little Children (by Doughty, Sarah Parsons)
The Little Gingerbread Man (by Herbert, Robert Gaston, Ill)
The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith)
The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by Bailey, Arthur Scott)
The Little People of the Snow (by Bryant, William Cullen)
Aesops Fables (by Mcloughlin Bros., Inc. Pbl)
Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by Brooke, Leonard Leslie)
The purple cow! (by Burgess, Gelett)
Aunt Friendly's Gift (by Baker, Sarah Schoonmaker)
Little Tot's Picture Book (by Sheila Thibodeau Lambrinos Collection - York Unive...)
The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by Kenneth Graham Duffield)
Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (by Andersen, Hans Christian)
The Wise Gray Cat (by Caroline Hofman, Rachael Robinson Elmer)
Ferdinand Frog (by Bailey, Arthur Scott)

Top Titles for Age 7

Pollyanna (by Porter, Eleanor H.)
Song of Hiawatha, The (by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth)
The Adventures of Pinocchio (by Collodi, C.)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Abridg... (by Carroll, Lewis)
Ozma de Oz (by L. Frank Baum)
The Three Jovial Huntsmen (by Caldecott, Randolph)
The History of Little Goody Two Shoes : ... (by Goldsmith, Oliver)
Green Fairy Book, The (by Lang, Andrew)
Pollyanna (by Porter, Eleanor Hodgman)
Pollyanna (by Porter, Eleanor Hodgman)
Little Almond Blossoms : A Book of Chine... (by Knox, Jessie Juliet)
Raggedy Ann stories (by Gruelle, Johnny)
The First Days of Man, As Narrated Quite... (by Kummer, Frederic Arnold)
The Story of Little Jane and Me (by Blatchford, Mary E)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by Carroll, Lewis)

Top Titles for Age 8

Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by Bateman, George W)
The Phantom Rickshaw (by Rudyard Kipling)
The Cuckoo Clock (by Molesworth, Mary Louisa)
Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The (by Baum, L. Frank)
The Sleeping Beauty (by Evans, C. S. (Charles Seddon))
Children Stories (by Dickens, Charles)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (by Burnett, Frances Hodgson)
Dickens' Stories about Children Every Ch... (by Dickens, Charles)
Understood Betsy (by Dorothy Canfield Fisher)
Five Children and It (by Nesbit, E. (Edith))
Zanzibar Tales (by Bateman, George W.)
Understood Betsy (by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield)
Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by Bateman, George W)
Jungle Book, The (by Kipling, Rudyard)
Rainbows for Children (by Caroline Sturgis Tappan, Lydia Maria Francis Child...)

Top Titles for Age 9

The History of Little Red Riding Hood
A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by Dickens, Charles)
Grimm's Fairy Tales (by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm)
King Solomon's Mines (by Haggard, H. Rider)
Second Jungle Book, The (by Kipling, Rudyard)
Nan (by Lillie, Lucy Cecil White)
Piccino, And Other Child Stories (by Burnett, Frances Hodgson)
The Rose and the Ring (by Thackeray, William Makepeace)
The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (by Burgess, Thornton Waldo)
The Wonder Clock (by Pyle, Howard)
The Hunting of the Snark (by Carroll, Lewis)
Hunting of the Snark, The (by Carroll, Lewis)
David Copperfield (by Dickens, Charles)
Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The (by Burgess, Thornton W.)
Christmas Carol, A (by Dickens, Charles)

Top Titles for Age 10

The Light Princess (by Macdonald, George)
General Principles of Zoology (by Hertwig, Richard)
A Tale of Two Cities (by Charles Dickens)
Ben Comee : A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, ... (by Michael Joseph Canavan)
Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The (by Irving, Washington)
Winnetou I (by May, Karl)
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (by Verne, Jules)
Black Beauty (by Sewell, Anna)
Little Women (by Alcott, Louisa May)
Children of Odin, The (by Colum, Padraic)
Peterkin Papers, The (by Hale, Lucretia P.)
Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by May, Karl)
Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates (by Dodge, Mary Mapes)
Carrots, Just a Little Boy and a Christm... (by Molesworth, Mrs.)
Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Hor... (by Sewell, Anna)

Top Titles for Age 11

Water-Babies, The (by Kingsley, Charles)
The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by Dickens, Charles)
Three Musketeers, The (by Dumas, Alexandre)
The Sea Fairies (by Baum, Lyman Frank)
The Water-Babies (by Charles Kingsley)
The Invisible Man (by Wells, Herbert George)
The King of the Golden River (by Ruskin, John)
The thousand and one nights: the Arabian... (by Arabian nights, Jonathan Scott)
Island of Dr. Moreau, The (by Wells, H. G.)
The Railway Children (by Nesbit, Edith)
Cricket on the Hearth, The (by Dickens, Charles)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (by Twain, Mark)
The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by Rossiter Johnson)
Sea Fairies, The (by Baum, L. Frank)
The Crescent Moon (by Tagore, Rabindranath)

Top Titles for Age 12

Stories of World History (by Tickner, F. W.)
The wonderful adventures of Nils (by Lagerlöf, Selma)
Prisoner of Zenda, The (by Hope, Anthony)
'Captains Courageous'' (by Rudyard Kipling)
Captains Courageous (by Kipling, Rudyard)
Count of Monte Cristo, The (by Dumas, Alexandre)
A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by Laurence Hutton)
A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by Hutton, Laurence)
The Count of Monte Cristo (by Dumas, Alexandre)
Call of the Wild, The (by London, Jack)
Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Th... (by Irving, Washington)
Tarzan of the Apes (by Burroughs, Edgar Rice)
Red true story book (by Lang, Andrew)
More magic pictures of the long ago; sto... (by Chandler, Anna Curtis)
Tarzan of the Apes (by Burroughs, Edgar Rice)

Top Titles for Age 13

The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by Charles Dickens)
Stories from Livy (by Church, Alfred John)
Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by Wood, Eric)
Robinson Crusoe (by Defoe, Daniel)
War of the Worlds, The (by Wells, H. G.)
Jane Eyre (by Brontë, Charlotte)
Ragged Dick (by Alger, Horatio, Jr.)
The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by Pyle, Howard)
Stories from Livy (by Church, Alfred John)
Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by Hugo, Victor)
Old Curiosity Shop, The (by Dickens, Charles)
Nicholas Nickleby (by Dickens, Charles)
Eight Cousins (by Alcott, Louisa May)
The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by Charles Dickens)
White Fang (by London, Jack)

Top Titles for Age 14

The Life of Abraham Lincoln
Tom Brown's School Days : By Thomas Hugh... (by Hughes, Thomas)
Riddle of the Sands (by Childers, Erskine)
Macbeth (by Shakespeare, William)
The Princess and the Goblin (by Macdonald, George)
Captain Blood (by Sabatini, Rafael)
The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by Charles Dickens)
Fathers and Sons
Phantom of the Opera, The (version 2) (by Leroux, Gaston)
The Canterbury Tales (by Chaucer, Geoffrey)
The Mayor of Casterbridge (by Hardy, Thomas)
Fathers and Sons (by Turgenev, Ivan)
Sense and Sensibility (by Austen, Jane)
The Story of Mankind (by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem)
Macbeth (by Shakespeare, William)

Top Titles for Age 15

The Golden Bough (by Frazer, Sir James George)
The Tale of Genji (by Murasaki Shikibu)
The Road Not Taken : An Introduction to ... (by Frost, Robert.)
Poems by Emily Dickinson (by Dickinson, Emily)
The House Without a Key (by Biggers, Earl Derr)
Devil's Pool, The (by Sand, George)
Great Expectations (version 2) (by Dickens, Charles)
Midsummer Night's Dream, A (by Shakespeare, William)
Mansfield Park (by Austen, Jane)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (by William Shakespeare)
Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by Twain, Mark)
The Coral Island (by Robert Michael Ballantyne)
Sign of the Four, The (by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir)
My Man Jeeves (by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville)
My Man Jeeves (by Wodehouse, P. G.)

Top Titles for Age 16

Heart of Darkness (by Conrad, Joseph)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (by Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Uncle Vanya (by Chekhov, Anton)
The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of l... (by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel De)
Quo Vadis (by Sienkiewicz, Henryk)
Cyrano de Bergerac (by Rostand, Edmond)
Man Who Would Be King, The (by Kipling, Rudyard)
Heart of Darkness (by Conrad, Joseph)
The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stor... (by Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936)
1984 (by Orwell, George)
The Adventures of Captain Horn (by Stockton, Frank Richard)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (by Stowe, Harriet Beecher)
Metamorphosis, The (by Kafka, Franz)
Hamlet (by Shakespeare, William)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (by Chesterton, Gilbert Keith)

Top Titles for Age 17

Wuthering Heights (by Brontë, Emily)
The tragedy of Julius Caesar (by Shakespeare, William)
The Odyssey (by Homer)
Animal Farm (by Orwell, George)
Lost Continent, The (Beyond Thirty) (by Burroughs, Edgar Rice)
Scarlet Pimpernel, The (by Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness)
Tartuffe (by Molière)
Julius Caesar (by Shakespeare, William)
Ben-Hur : A Tale of the Christ (by Lewis Wallace, Luís Bao)
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (by Lawrence, T. E.)
The Thirty-Nine Steps (by Buchan, John)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by Stevenson, Robert Louis)
The Scarlet Letter (by Hawthorne, Nathaniel)
The Turn of the Screw (by James, Henry)
Faust I (by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von)

Top Titles for Age 18

Anna Karenina -2 (by Tolstoy, Leo)
Leaves of Grass (by Whitman, Walt)
Far from the Madding Crowd (by Hardy, Thomas)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by Franklin, Benjamin)
Silas Marner (by Eliot, George)
A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by William Bligh)
Far from the Madding Crowd (by Thomas Hardy)
The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise,... (by I. Gollancz and H. Morten)
The Brothers Karamazov (by Dostoevsky, Fyodor)
Ivanhoe (by Scott, Walter, Sir)
The Republic (by Plato)
Silas Marner (by Eliot, George)
Where Angels Fear to Tread (by Forster, Edward Morgan)
Paradise Lost (by Milton, John)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (by Wilde, Oscar)

Top Titles for Ages 18+

Tender Buttons (by Stein, Gertrude)
The Last of the Mohicans : a Tragedy, in... (by Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Last of the Moh...)
History of the Decline and Fall of the R... (by Gibbon, Edward)
Democracy in America (by Alexis De Tocqueville)
Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solom... (by Northup, Solomon)
Gulliver's Travels (by Young, Victor, 1900-1956, Donor)
Nostromo (by Conrad, Joseph)
The Great Learning
Babbitt (by Lewis, Sinclair)
Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchause... (by Raspe, Rudolf Erich)
The Genius (by Dreiser, Theodore)
The Man in the Iron Mask (by Dumas, Alexandre)
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by Raspe, Rudolf Erich)
Vanity Fair (by Thackeray, William Makepeace)
The Great Learning (by Confucius)