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Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • The Little Red Hen 
  • Little Bo Peep 
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • The Ugly Duckling (by )
  • The Story of the Three Bears 
  • The velveteen rabbit; or, How toys becom... (by )
  • The Tale of Mr. Tod (by )
  • Baby's Own Aesop (by )
  • Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book 
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
  • Baby's Lullaby Book : Mother Songs (by )
  • The Story of Ferdinand (by )
  • Velveteen Rabbit, The (by )
  • Little Bo-Peep; A Nursery Rhyme Picture ... 
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Stories for Little Children (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • The Little Red Balloon (by )
  • Fairy Tales/By Hans Christian Andersen; ... (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (by )
  • Adventures of Maya the Bee, The (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • The purple cow! (by )
  • Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Bambi ṿald mayśele (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • Ozma de Oz (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • Just so Stories (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • Ozma of Oz (by )
  • The Three Jovial Huntsmen (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two Shoes : ... (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • A Apple Pie and Other Nursery Tales : Fo... 
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (by )
  • Dickens' Stories about Children Every Ch... (by )
  • The Tale of Lam-Ang and the Fire Giant (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • What Shall We Do Now Over Five Hundred G... (by )
  • King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • Bimbi : Stories for Children (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • Swiss Family Robinson, The (by )
  • The Little Story-Teller : A Selection of... 
  • David Copperfield (by )
  • Nan (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • The Second Jungle Book (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) (by )
  • The Troll Garden (by )
  • The Story of David Copperfield for Child... (by )
  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Little Women (by )
  • Tale of Two Cities, A (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • The Light Princess (by )
  • The Children of Odin (by )
  • Winnetou I (by )
  • Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Hor... (by )
  • Four Million, The (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (by )
  • Ben Comee; A Tale of Rogers's Rangers 17... (by )
  • The Four Million (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • Under the lilacs (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The Thousand and One Nights: The Arabian... (by )
  • Jack, The Young Ranchman; Or, A Boy's Ad... (by )
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom ... (by )
  • Cricket on the Hearth, The (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (by )
  • The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz: In which the Scare... (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • Invisible Man, The (by )
  • The King of the Golden River (by )
  • Island of Dr. Moreau, The (by )
  • The Wide, Wide World (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • The Broken Vase, And Other Stories : For... 
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm (by )
  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by )
  • Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Th... (by )
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (by )
  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
  • The Lost World (by )
  • The Prisoner of Zenda : Being the Histor... (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
  • The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (by )
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • More magic pictures of the long ago; sto... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • Jane Eyre (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • Ragged Dick : Or, Street Life in New Yor... (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Robinson Crusoe (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, T... (by )
  • Rootabaga Stories (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (by )
  • Nicholas Nickleby (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • The Story of My Life (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (version 2) (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Co... (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • Frankenstein : Or, The Modern Prometheus... (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands, The (by )
  • The Story of Mankind (by )
  • The Story of My Life (by )
  • The Life of Abraham Lincoln 
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • Dracula (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage 
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
  • The Sign of the Four and Other Stories (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • Tempest, The (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • Romeo and Juliet (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Promised Land, The (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • King Lear (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • Metamorphosis (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper (by )
  • Metamorphosis, The (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • To the Lighthouse (by )
  • Quo Vadis 
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • Origin of Species by Means of Natural Se... (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • Faust (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • Lost Continent, The (Beyond Thirty) (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
  • The Lost Continent (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • Anna Karenina (by )
  • Iliad, The (by )
  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Mrs. Dalloway (by )
  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • This Side of Paradise (by )
  • The Republic, Score Plato Rep (by )
  • Silas Marner (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • The Brothers Karamazov (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • The Prince (by )
  • Pilgrim's Progress, The (by )
  • Last of the Mohicans, The (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solom... (by )
  • A Raisin in the Sun Unabridged 25Th Anni... (by )
  • The Art of War (by )
  • Tender Buttons (by )
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the R... (by )
  • New Atlantis, The (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • The genius (by )
  • The Dialogues of Plato (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
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