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Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • The Story of Ferdinand (by )
  • Little Bo Peep 
  • The Tale of Mr. Tod (by )
  • Little Bo-Peep; A Nursery Rhyme Picture ... 
  • The House That Jack Built (by )
  • House that Jack Built, The (by )
  • The Little Engine That Could (by )
  • The Three Bears 
  • Velveteen Rabbit, The (by )
  • Three Little Pigs 
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • Baby's Abc Book 
  • Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by )
  • The Story of the Three Bears 
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • The Fables of Aesop (by )
  • Stories for Little Children (by )
  • Twas the Night before Christmas; A Visit... (by )
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • The National Nursery Book : Comprising :... 
  • Pets and Playmates 
  • Little Red Balloon (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • Adventures of Maya the Bee, The (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book 
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Abridg... (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • A Book of Discoveries. Illustrated by Go... (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • The First Days of Man, As Narrated Quite... (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes : ... (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars; (by )
  • A Book of Discoveries (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • Stories for Children. First Reader Grade (by )
  • Old Roly Bear Visits His Cousins (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • Just so Stories : For Little Children (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Cottage Verses for Young Readers (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • Jungle Book, The (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know : Tales f... (by )
  • Children Stories (by )
  • The Phantom Rickshaw (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • The Second Jungle Book (by )
  • Last Fairy Tales (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (by )
  • The Story of David Copperfield for Child... (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • The Swiss family Robinson (by )
  • Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by )
  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • The Rose and the Ring (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • The Little Story-Teller : A Selection of... 
  • Piccino, And Other Child Stories (by )
  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Little Women (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 
  • Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The (by )
  • Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Hor... (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by )
  • Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates (by )
  • The Peterkin Papers (by )
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by )
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • Light Princess, The (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Peterkin Papers, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The Railway Children (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
  • Little Princess, A (by )
  • The Thousand and One Nights: The Arabian... (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • Children's Book of Christmas Stories, Th... (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • Wide, Wide World, The (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Secret Garden, The (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • Call of the Wild, The (by )
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm (by )
  • More Magic Pictures of the Long Ago; Sto... (by )
  • The Red True Story Book (by )
  • A Room with a View (by )
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • My Antonia (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Shakespeare (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • War of the Worlds, The (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Co... (by )
  • Arms and the Man (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands (by )
  • Canterbury Tales, The (by )
  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
  • The Phantom of the Opera (by )
  • A Connecticut Yankee (by )
  • The Life of Abraham Lincoln 
  • Story of My Life, The (by )
  • The Story of My Life (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (version 3) (by )
  • Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (by )
  • Emma (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • Rome Express, The (by )
  • Coral Island, The (by )
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • Golden Bough, The (by )
  • Tempest, The (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • Sign of the Four, The (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • The Rome Express (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Prince and the Pauper, The (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stor... (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Uncle Tom's cabin : or, Life among the l... (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • Quo Vadis 
  • The Travels of Marco Polo (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • Letters from the Earth (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • Faust I (by )
  • Shakespeare's tragedy of Anthony and Cle... (by )
  • Scarlet Letter, The (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • The Grapes of Wrath (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,... (by )
  • Ben-Hur (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Silas Marner (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • This Side of Paradise (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • War and Peace (by )
  • Anna Karenina (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Iliad, The (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • The Iliad (by )
  • Middlemarch (by )
  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • The Prince (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • The Divine Comedy (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the R... (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask, An Essay (by )
  • Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchause... (by )
  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • A Raisin in the Sun Unabridged 25Th Anni... (by )
  • New Atlantis, The (by )
  • Divine Comedy, The (by )
  • Bleak House (by )
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