Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5

Tale of Peter Rabbit (by Potter, Beatrix)
The House That Jack Built (by Caldecott, Randolph)
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (by Potter, Beatrix)
The Three Bears
Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by Brooke, Leonard Leslie)
The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by Brooke, Leonard Leslie)
The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. (by Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901, Ill)
Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by Goldsmith, Oliver)
Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book
Velveteen Rabbit, The (by Williams, Margery)
The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by Leonard Leslie Brooke)
The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by Caldecott, Randolph)
Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by Crane, Walter)
The Ugly Duckling (by Andersen, Hans Christian)
Golden Goose Book, The (by Brooke, L. Leslie)

Top Titles for Age 6

Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book (by Gruelle, Johnny)
The Curious Adventures of Cinderella, Or...
The Wise Gray Cat (by Caroline Hofman, Rachael Robinson Elmer)
Adventures of Sonny Bear (by Fox, Frances Margaret)
The Tiny Picture Book
Jack and the Beanstalk
The Little Gingerbread Man (by Herbert, Robert Gaston, Ill)
Aunt Friendly's Gift (by Baker, Sarah Schoonmaker)
The purple cow! (by Burgess, Gelett)
The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by Kenneth Graham Duffield)
The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by Bonsels, Waldemar)
Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by Brooke, Leonard Leslie)
Aesops Fables (by Mcloughlin Bros., Inc. Pbl)
Adventures of Sonny Bear (by Fox, Frances Margaret)
Ferdinand Frog (by Bailey, Arthur Scott)

Top Titles for Age 7

The Green Fairy Book (by Andrew Lang, Henry Justice Ford)
The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes : ... (by Goldsmith, Oliver)
Ozma of Oz (version 3) (by Baum, L. Frank)
Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by Johnny Gruelle)
Old King Cole (by Martin, John)
Little Almond Blossoms : A Book of Chine... (by Knox, Jessie Juliet)
Pollyanna (by Porter, Eleanor H.)
The Story of Little Jane and Me (by Blatchford, Mary E)
The Children's Book of Stars (by Geraldine Edith Mitton)
Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by Burgess, Thornton Waldo)
Ozma of Oz (by Baum, Lyman Frank)
Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by Burgess, Thornton W.)
Bambi ṿald mayśele (by Salten, Felix)
Just so Stories : For Little Children (by Rudyard Kipling)
The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by Arthur Scott Bailey, Harry L. Smith)

Top Titles for Age 8

Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by Bateman, George W)
The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by Wilde, Oscar)
Understood Betsy (by Dorothy Canfield Fisher)
Bimbi : Stories for Children (by Ouida)
The Cuckoo Clock (by Molesworth, Mary Louisa)
The Tale of Lam-Ang and the Fire Giant (by Caligtan, Grace, Mrs.)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (by Burnett, Frances Hodgson)
Zanzibar Tales (by Bateman, George W.)
Happy Prince and Other Tales, The (by Wilde, Oscar)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (th... (by C. S. Lewis)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (by Burnett, Frances Hodgson)
The story of King Arthur and his knights (by Pyle, Howard)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by Baum, Lyman Frank)
Heroes Every Child Should Know : Tales f... (by Hamilton Wright Mabie)
Understood Betsy (by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield)

Top Titles for Age 9

Hunting of the Snark, The (by Carroll, Lewis)
Second Jungle Book, The (by Kipling, Rudyard)
The Story of David Copperfield for Child... (by Gleason, Ray)
Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The (by Burgess, Thornton W.)
The Rose and the Ring (by Thackeray, William Makepeace)
The Blue Fairy Book (by Andrew Lang)
King Solomon's Mines (by Haggard, Henry Rider)
Nature Myths and Stories for Little Chil... (by Flora Juliette Cooke)
Grimm's Fairy Tales (by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm)
Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by Read it LOUD!)
The Hunting of the Snark (by Carroll, Lewis)
Christmas Carol, A (by Dickens, Charles)
The Wonder Clock (by Pyle, Howard)
The History of Little Red Riding Hood
King Solomon's Mines (by Haggard, H. Rider)

Top Titles for Age 10

The Raven (by Edgar Allan Poe)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (by Verne, Jules)
Raven, The (by Poe, Edgar Allan)
Treasure Island (by Stevenson, Robert Louis)
Winnetou I (by May, Karl)
Little Women (by Alcott, Louisa May)
Little Women (by Alcott, Louisa May)
Carrots, Just a Little Boy and a Christm... (by Molesworth, Mrs.)
Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by London, Jack)
Madame How and Lady Why; Or, First Lesso... (by Charles Kingsley)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by Doyle, Conan)
Black Beauty (by Sewell, Anna)
Light Princess, The (by MacDonald, George)
The Light Princess (by Macdonald, George)
The Four Million (by O. Henry)

Top Titles for Age 11

The King of the Golden River (by Ruskin, John)
The Invisible Man (by Wells, Herbert George)
Three Musketeers, The (by Dumas, Alexandre)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (by Twain, Mark)
Island of Dr. Moreau, The (by Wells, H. G.)
A Journey to the Center of the Earth (by Verne, Jules)
The Railway Children (by Nesbit, E.)
The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by Dickinson, Asa Don)
Journey to the Interior of the Earth, A (by Verne, Jules)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (by Twain, Mark)
The Water-Babies (by Charles Kingsley)
The Three Musketeers (by Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870)
Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, The (by Pyle, Howard)
Wide, Wide World, The (by Warner, Susan)
Children's Book of Christmas Stories, Th... (by Various)

Top Titles for Age 12

The Call of the Wild (by London, Jack)
Kim (by Rudyard Kipling)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith)
The Magic Pudding (by Lindsay, Norman)
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by Irving, Washington)
The Broken Vase, And Other Stories : For...
The Secret Garden (by Burnett, Frances Hodgson)
Tarzan of the Apes (by Burroughs, Edgar Rice)
Count of Monte Cristo, The (by Dumas, Alexandre)
Land that Time Forgot, The (by Burroughs, Edgar Rice)
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by Sidney, Margaret)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan)
'Captains Courageous'' (by Rudyard Kipling)
The Land That Time Forgot (by Burroughs, Edgar Rice)
The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by Samuel Adams Drake)

Top Titles for Age 13

The War of the Worlds (by Wells, Herbert George)
The monster and other stories (by Crane, Stephen)
Rootabaga Stories (by Sandburg, Carl)
Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by Wood, Eric)
The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by Pyle, Howard)
My Antonia (by Willa Cather)
The Mark of Zorro (by Mcculley, Johnston)
Ragged Dick (by Alger, Horatio, Jr.)
White Fang (by London, Jack)
Around the World in Eighty Days (version... (by Verne, Jules)
The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by Charles Dickens)
Robinson Crusoe (by Defoe, Daniel)
Great Stories of All Nations (by Maxim Lieber)
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (by Hugo, Victor)
The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by Charles Dickens)

Top Titles for Age 14

Arms and the Man (by Shaw, George Bernard)
A Connecticut Yankee (by Twain, Mark)
The Oregon Trail (by Parkman, Francis)
Arms and the Man (by Shaw, George Bernard)
The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by Edgar Allan Poe)
Sister Carrie (by Dreiser, Theodore)
The Barber of Seville; A Comic Opera in ... (by Rossini, Gioacchino)
Phantom of the Opera, The (version 2) (by Leroux, Gaston)
Fathers and Sons (by Turgenev, Ivan)
Fathers and Sons (by Turgenev, Ivan)
The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by Charles Dickens, C. Green)
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
Tom Brown's schooldays (by Thomas Hughes)
Emma (by Austen, Jane)
Canterbury Tales, The (by Chaucer, Geoffrey)

Top Titles for Age 15

The Tempest (by Shakespeare, William)
Coral Island, The (by Ballantyne, R.M.)
The Devil's Pool (by Sand, George)
Mansfield Park (by Austen, Jane)
Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by Twain, Mark)
Great Expectations (version 2) (by Dickens, Charles)
The Sign of the Four and Other Stories (by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir)
Dracula (by Stoker, Bram)
Great Expectations (by Dickens, Charles)
Devil's Pool, The (by Sand, George)
Agnes Grey (by Brontë, Anne)
A Midsummer-Night's Dream (by William Shakespeare)
Red Badge of Courage, The (by Crane, Stephen)
Great Expectations (by Dickens, Charles)
Rome Express, The (by Griffiths, Arthur)

Top Titles for Age 16

The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by Antin, Mary)
Uncle Vanya (by Chekhov, Anton)
Promised Land, The (by Antin, Mary)
1984 (by Orwell, George)
The Travels of Marco Polo (by Marco Polo)
Catch 22 a Novel (by Joseph Heller)
Don Quixote - Vol. 1 (by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de)
Shakespeare's King Lear (by Bloom, Harold)
Uncle Vanya (by Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich)
The Prince and the Pauper
Letters from the Earth (by Twain, Mark)
Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor (by Blackmore, Richard Doddridge)
The Professor and Poems (by Brontë, Charlotte)
Cyrano de Bergerac (by Rostand, Edmond)
Quo Vadis

Top Titles for Age 17

The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (by Lawrence, T. E.)
Faust (by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von)
The Idiot (by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor)
Julius Caesar (by Shakespeare, William)
The Odyssey (by Homer)
Tartuffe (by Poquelin, Jean Baptiste)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (by Wallace, Lew)
Odyssey, The (by Homer)
Origin of Species by Means of Natural Se... (by Darwin, Charles)
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,... (by Stevenson, Robert Louis)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by Stevenson, Robert Louis)
Idiot, The (Part 01 and 02) (by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor)
Faust I (by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von)
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Versio... (by Thoreau, Henry David)
To Have and to Hold (by Johnston, Mary)

Top Titles for Age 18

Iliad, The (by Homer)
Walden (by Thoreau, Henry David)
Utopia (by More, Thomas, Sir)
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The (by Franklin, Benjamin)
Anna Karenina (by Tolstoy, Leo)
Madame Bovary (by Flaubert, Gustave)
Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by Bellamy, Edward, Mrs.)
Ivanhoe (by Scott, Walter, Sir)
Paradise Lost (by Milton, John)
Where Angels Fear to Tread (by Forster, E. M.)
Silas Marner
Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by Bellamy, Edward)
The Iliad (by Butler, Samuel)
A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by William Bligh)
War and Peace (by Tolstoy, Leo)

Top Titles for Ages 18+

The Dialogues of Plato (by Plato)
Gulliver's Travels (by Young, Victor, 1900-1956, Donor)
Man in the Iron Mask, The (by Dumas, Alexandre)
Pilgrim's Progress, Score Chr Bunyan (by John Bunyan)
Pilgrim's Progress, The (by Bunyan, John)
Tender Buttons (by Stein, Gertrude)
Gulliver's Travels (by Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745)
Beyond Good and Evil (by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm)
Moonfleet (by Falkner, John Meade)
Beyond Good and Evil (by Nietzsche, Friedrich)
Nostromo (by Joseph Conrad)
Divine Comedy, The (by Dante Alighieri)
The Genius (by Dreiser, Theodore)
The Man in the Iron Mask, An Essay (by Dumas, Alexandre)
The New Atlantis (by Bacon, Francis)