Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5

Three Blind Mice (by Ivimey, John William)
The Velveteen Rabbit; Or, How Toys Becom... (by Bianco, Margery Williams, 1881-1944)
Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book
Harrison's New Nursery Picture Book : Co... (by Bewick, Thomas)
Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (by Brooke, L. Leslie)
The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by Caldecott, Randolph)
Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by Brooke, Leonard Leslie)
Baby's Own Aesop (by Crane, Walter)
Baby's Lullaby Book : Mother Songs (by Pratt, Charles Stuart)
Little Bo Peep
Three Little Pigs
Mother Goose's nursery rhymes : a collec... (by Crane, Walter)
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (by Potter, Beatrix)
Baby's Abc Book
The Three Bears

Top Titles for Age 6

Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by Brooke, Leonard Leslie)
Aesops Fables (by Mcloughlin Bros., Inc. Pbl)
The Fables of Aesop (by Aesop)
Twas the Night before Christmas; A Visit... (by Moore, Clement Clarke)
The Little People of the Snow (by Bryant, William Cullen)
The Purple Cow! (by Burgess, Galett)
The Tiny Picture Book
The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by Kenneth Graham Duffield)
Adventures of Maya the Bee, The (by Bonsels, Waldemar)
The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith)
Stories for Little Children (by Doughty, Sarah Parsons)
The Little Gingerbread Man (by Herbert, Robert Gaston, Ill)
Adventures of Sonny Bear (by Fox, Frances Margaret)
The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by Bailey, Arthur Scott)
The Little Red Balloon (by Hofman, Caroline)

Top Titles for Age 7

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by Carroll, Lewis)
The Green Fairy Book (by Andrew Lang, Henry Justice Ford)
Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by Johnny Gruelle)
Raggedy Ann stories (by Gruelle, Johnny)
Old King Cole (by Martin, John)
The Story of Little Jane and Me (by Blatchford, Mary E)
The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes : ... (by Goldsmith, Oliver)
Just so Stories (by Kipling, Ruyard)
The Song of Hiawatha (by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth)
The First Days of Man, As Narrated Quite... (by Kummer, Frederic Arnold)
Bambi (by Salten, Felix)
Beauty and the Beast (by Perrault, Charles)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by Carroll, Lewis)
A Book of Discoveries. Illustrated by Go... (by Masefield, John)
Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2) (by Gruelle, Johnny)

Top Titles for Age 8

Happy Prince and Other Tales, The (by Wilde, Oscar)
The Phantom Rickshaw (by Rudyard Kipling)
Rainbows for Children (by Caroline Sturgis Tappan, Lydia Maria Francis Child...)
Heidi (by Spyri, Johanna)
The Jungle Book (by Kipling, Rudyard)
Five Children and It, Version 2 (by Nesbit, E. (Edith))
The story of King Arthur and his knights (by Pyle, Howard)
The Sleeping Beauty (by Evans, C. S. (Charles Seddon))
Lilliput Legends
Cottage Verses for Young Readers (by Lake, Catharine)
Understood Betsy (by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield)
The Phantom Rickshaw (by Rudyard Kipling)
Understood Betsy (by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield)
Bimbi. Stories for Children (by Ouida)
The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by Wilde, Oscar)

Top Titles for Age 9

Peter and Wendy (by Barrie, James Matthew)
What Katy Did at School (by Coolidge, Susan)
Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by Read it LOUD!)
The Story of David Copperfield for Child... (by Gleason, Ray)
Tanglewood Tales (by Hawthorne, Nathaniel)
Second Jungle Book, The (by Kipling, Rudyard)
Hunting of the Snark, The (by Carroll, Lewis)
Last Fairy Tales (by Booth, Mary Louise)
The Wind in the Willows (by Grahame, Kenneth)
The Little Story-Teller : A Selection of...
The Adventures of Columbus : Early Ameri... (by Humphrey, Frances A., Mrs.)
King Solomon's Mines (by Haggard, H. Rider)
Tanglewood Tales (by Hawthorne, Nathaniel)
Peter and Wendy (by Barrie, James Matthew)
The History of Little Red Riding Hood

Top Titles for Age 10

A Tale of Two Cities (by Charles Dickens)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (by Irving, Washington)
Under the Lilacs (by Alcott, Louisa May)
Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by May, Karl)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Peterkin Papers, The (by Hale, Lucretia P.)
The Peterkin Papers (by Lucretia Peabody Hale)
Under the lilacs (by Alcott, Louisa May)
Black Beauty (by Sewell, Anna)
The Four Million (by O. Henry)
Little Women (by Alcott, Louisa May)
Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by London, Jack)
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (by Verne, Jules)
The Four Million (by O. Henry)
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir)

Top Titles for Age 11

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom ... (by Twain, Mark)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by Twain, Mark)
The King of the Golden River (by Ruskin, John)
The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by Johnson, Rossiter)
The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by Dickens, Charles)
The Thousand and One Nights: The Arabian... (by Arabian Nights, Jonathan Scott)
The Wide, Wide World (by Susan Warner)
The Wide, Wide World (by Warner, Susan)
Pride and Prejudice (by Austen, Jane)
Eyebright : A Story (by Coolidge, Susan)
The Cricket on the Hearth (by Charles Dickens)
Water-Babies, The (by Kingsley, Charles)
Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, The (by Pyle, Howard)
The Flower and the Star and Other Storie... (by William James Linton)
The Royal Book of Oz: In which the Scare... (by Lyman Frank Baum)

Top Titles for Age 12

The Secret Garden (by Burnett, Frances Hodgson)
The Magic Pudding (by Lindsay, Norman)
Red true story book (by Lang, Andrew)
Secret Garden, The (by Burnett, Frances Hodgson)
A Room with a View (by Forster, E. M.)
The Secret Garden (by Burnett, Frances Hodgson)
Count of Monte Cristo, The (by Dumas, Alexandre)
Hound of the Baskervilles, The (dramatic... (by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir)
The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by Drake, Samuel Adams)
The Call of the Wild (by London, Jack)
Captains Courageous (by Kipling, Rudyard)
Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Th... (by Irving, Washington)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by Wiggin, Kate Douglas)
'Captains Courageous'' (by Rudyard Kipling)
The Time Machine (by Wells, Herbert George)

Top Titles for Age 13

Countess Julie (by Strindberg, August)
The monster and other stories (by Crane, Stephen)
A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by Davy Crockett)
Eight Cousins (by Alcott, Louisa May)
Stories from Livy (by Church, Alfred John)
My Antonia (by Willa Cather)
Eight Cousins (by Alcott, Louisa May)
Pygmalion (by Shaw, George Bernard)
Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, T... (by Defoe, Daniel)
Great Stories of All Nations (by Maxim Lieber)
Eight Cousins (by Alcott, Louisa May)
Fairy Tales from Shakespeare (by Britton, Fay Adams)
White Fang (by London, Jack)
War of the Worlds, The (by Wells, H. G.)
Pygmalion (by Shaw, George Bernard)

Top Titles for Age 14

Captain Blood (by Sabatini, Rafael)
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Cour... (by Twain, Mark)
The Canterbury Tales (by Chaucer, Geoffrey)
Fathers and Sons (by Turgenev, Ivan)
Frankenstein (dramatic reading) (by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft)
Sense and Sensibility (by Austen, Jane)
Sense and Sensibility (by Austen, Jane)
A House-Boat on the Styx (by Bangs, John Kendrick)
Phantom of the Opera, The (version 2) (by Leroux, Gaston)
The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by Edgar Allan Poe)
Sense and Sensibility (version 3) (by Austen, Jane)
Emma (by Austen, Jane)
Sister Carrie (by Dreiser, Theodore)
The Mayor of Casterbridge (by Hardy, Thomas)
The Story of My Life (by Helen Keller)

Top Titles for Age 15

Poems by Emily Dickinson (by Dickinson, Emily)
Mansfield Park (by Austen, Jane)
The Devil's Pool (by Sand, George)
My Man Jeeves (by Wodehouse, P. G.)
The Road Not Taken : An Introduction To ... (by Frost, Robert.)
The Tale of Genji (by Murasaki Shikibu)
Great Expectations (version 2) (by Dickens, Charles)
Romeo and Juliet (by Shakespeare, William)
Poems by Emily Dickinson (by Dickinson, Emily)
Great Expectations (by Dickens, Charles)
Red Badge of Courage, The (by Crane, Stephen)
Mansfield Park (by Jane Austen)
Les Miserables (by Hugo, Victor)
The Golden Bough (by Frazer, James George, Sir)
Lord Jim (by Conrad, Joseph)

Top Titles for Age 16

Shakespeare's King Lear (by Bloom, Harold)
Hamlet (by Shakespeare, William)
Cyrano de Bergerac (by Rostand, Edmond)
The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by Antin, Mary)
Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by Conrad, Joseph)
1984 (by Orwell, George)
Heart of Darkness (by Conrad, Joseph)
The Adventures of Captain Horn (by Stockton, Frank Richard, 1834-1902)
Metamorphosis (by Kafka, Franz)
Man Who Would Be King, The (by Kipling, Rudyard)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (by Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Metamorphosis, The (by Kafka, Franz)
Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor (by Blackmore, Richard Doddridge)
The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by Antin, Mary)
King Lear (by Shakespeare, William)

Top Titles for Age 17

To Have And To Hold (by Johnston, Mary)
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by Defoe, Daniel)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (by Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness)
The Arabian Nights (by Burton, Richard)
Idiot, The (Part 01 and 02) (by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor)
The Trial (by Kafka, Franz)
Ben-Hur : A Tale of the Christ (by Lewis Wallace, Luís Bao)
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (by Lawrence, T. E.)
The Woman in White (by Collins, Wilkie)
The Idiot (by Dostoevsky, Fyodor)
The Scarlet Letter (by Hawthorne, Nathaniel)
Wuthering Heights (by Brontë, Emily)
The Odyssey (by Homer)
Faust (by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von)
To Have and to Hold (by Johnston, Mary)

Top Titles for Age 18

Mrs. Dalloway (by Woolf, Virginia)
Utopia (by More, Thomas, Sir)
Far from the Madding Crowd (by Hardy, Thomas)
Middlemarch (by Eliot, George Evans)
The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise,... (by I. Gollancz and H. Morten)
A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by William Bligh)
A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by William Bligh)
Far from the Madding Crowd (by Hardy, Thomas)
The Iliad (by Homer)
Utopia (by More, Thomas)
Paradise Lost (by Milton, John)
Where Angels Fear to Tread (by Edward Morgan Forster)
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The (by Franklin, Benjamin)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (by Wilde, Oscar)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by Franklin, Benjamin)

Top Titles for Ages 18+

Last of the Mohicans, The (by Cooper, James Fenimore)
Tender Buttons (by Stein, Gertrude)
The Prince (by Machiavelli, Niccolò)
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by Raspe, Rudolf Erich)
Last of the Mohicans, The (by Cooper, James Fenimore)
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by Raspe, Rudolf Erich)
Bleak House (by Dickens, Charles)
The Last of the Mohicans : a Tragedy, in... (by Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Last of the Moh...)
Pilgrim's Progress, Score Chr Bunyan (by John Bunyan)
Moonfleet (by Falkner, J. Meade)
Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solom... (by Northup, Solomon)
Bleak House (by Charles Dickens)
The genius (by Dreiser, Theodore)
Pilgrim's Progress, The (by Bunyan, John)
Democracy in America (by Alexis De Tocqueville)