Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5

The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by Leonard Leslie Brooke)
Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (by Brooke, L. Leslie)
Velveteen Rabbit, The (by Williams, Margery)
Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by Crane, Walter)
Harry's Ladder to Learning
The Little Engine That Could (by Lenski, Lois L.)
The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by Caldecott, Randolph)
The Story of the Three Bears
Three Blind Mice (by Ivimey, John William)
The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. (by Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901, Ill)
The Little Red Hen
Denslow's Three Bears (by Denslow, W. W.)
Three Little Pigs
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (by Potter, Beatrix)
The Story of Ferdinand (by Leaf, Munro)

Top Titles for Age 6

The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith)
The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by Bailey, Arthur Scott)
The Purple Cow! (by Burgess, Galett)
Ferdinand Frog (by Bailey, Arthur Scott)
The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by Kenneth Graham Duffield)
Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book (by Gruelle, Johnny)
Stories for Little Children (by Doughty, Sarah Parsons)
Cinderella; Or, The Little Glass Slipper...
Johnny Crow's Garden (by Brooke, L. Leslie)
The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith)
The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by Bonsels, Waldemar)
The purple cow! (by Burgess, Gelett)
The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by Bonsels, Waldemar)
The Little Gingerbread Man (by Herbert, Robert Gaston, Ill)
The Curious Adventures of Cinderella, Or...

Top Titles for Age 7

Ozma of Oz (by Baum, Lyman Frank)
Pollyanna (by Porter, Eleanor H.)
The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by Arthur Scott Bailey, Harry L. Smith)
Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by Johnny Gruelle)
Song of Hiawatha, The (by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth)
The Children's Book of Stars (by Geraldine Edith Mitton)
The Song of Hiawatha (by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by Carroll, Lewis)
A Book of Discoveries. Illustrated by Go... (by Masefield, John)
Little Almond Blossoms : A Book of Chine... (by Knox, Jessie Juliet)
Old King Cole (by Martin, John)
The Green Fairy Book (by Lang, Andrew, Ed)
The Children's Book of Stars; (by Mitton, Gerldine Edith)
Old King Cole Mother Goose Melodies
Beauty and the Beast (by Brett, Jan, 1949-)

Top Titles for Age 8

The Phantom Rickshaw (by Rudyard Kipling)
Five Children and It, Version 2 (by Nesbit, E. (Edith))
Rip Van Winkle (by Irving, Washington)
Understood Betsy (by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield)
Heroes Every Child Should Know : Tales f... (by Hamilton Wright Mabie)
Anne of Green Gables Illustrated by Anon... (by Montgomery, L.M.)
Puss in Boots
Five Children and It (by Nesbit, E. (Edith))
The Jungle Book (by Kipling, Rudyard)
Children Stories (by Dickens, Charles)
What shall we do now? Over five hundred ... (by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield)
Five Children and It (by Nesbit, Edith)
The Phantom Rickshaw (by Rudyard Kipling)
Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The (by Baum, L. Frank)
Rainbows for Children (by Caroline Sturgis Tappan, Lydia Maria Francis Child...)

Top Titles for Age 9

A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by Dickens, Charles)
The Complete Book of Nonsense (by Lear, Edward)
Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by Read it LOUD!)
Tanglewood Tales (by Hawthorne, Nathaniel)
Peter and Wendy (by Barrie, James Matthew)
What Katy Did at School (by Coolidge, Susan)
Blue Fairy Book, The (by Lang, Andrew)
The Troll Garden (by McClure, Phillips & Co. Pbl)
Last Fairy Tales (by Booth, Mary Louise)
Piccino, And Other Child Stories (by Burnett, Frances Hodgson)
The Blue Fairy Book (by Andrew Lang)
The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (by Burgess, Thornton Waldo)
The Adventures of Columbus : Early Ameri... (by Humphrey, Frances A., Mrs.)
The Second Jungle Book (by Rudyard Kipling)
Christmas Carol, A (by Dickens, Charles)

Top Titles for Age 10

The Light Princess (by Macdonald, George)
Hans Brinker (by Mary Elizabeth Dodge)
The Four Million (by O. Henry)
Black Beauty (by Sewell, Anna)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Carrots, Just a Little Boy and a Christm... (by Molesworth, Mrs.)
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by Barrie, J. M.)
Raven, The (by Poe, Edgar Allan)
Treasure Island (by Stevenson, Robert Louis)
Little Women (by Alcott, Louisa May)
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by Barrie, James Matthew)
Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates (by Dodge, Mary Mapes)
The Light Princess (by Macdonald, George)
The Fairchild Family (by Sherwood, Mary Martha)
Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Hor... (by Sewell, Anna)

Top Titles for Age 11

The Cricket on the Hearth (by Charles Dickens)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by Mark Twain)
A Little Princess (by Burnett, Frances Hodgson)
The Royal Book of Oz: In which the Scare... (by Lyman Frank Baum)
The Crescent Moon (by Tagore, Rabindranath)
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (by Twain, Mark)
The King of the Golden River (by Ruskin, John)
A Little Princess (by Burnett, Frances Hodgson)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom ... (by Twain, Mark)
Mysterious Island, The (by Verne, Jules)
Railway Children, The (by Nesbit, E. (Edith))
Jack, The Young Ranchman; Or, A Boy's Ad... (by Grinnell, George Bird)
Invisible Man, The (by Wells, H. G.)
Little Princess, A (by Burnett, Frances Hodgson)
Sea Fairies, The (by Baum, L. Frank)

Top Titles for Age 12

The Secret Garden (by Burnett, Frances Hodgson)
Captains Courageous (by Kipling, Rudyard)
A Room with a View (by Forster, E. M.)
Room with a View, A (by Forster, E. M.)
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by Sidney, Margaret)
Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Th... (by Irving, Washington)
The Broken Vase, And Other Stories : For...
Kidnapped (by Stevenson, Robert Louis)
The Time Machine (by Wells, Herbert George)
Call of the Wild, The (by London, Jack)
The Prisoner of Zenda : Being the Histor... (by Hope, Anthony, 1863-1933)
The Magic Pudding (by Lindsay, Norman)
Kidnapped (by Stevenson, Robert Louis)
'Captains Courageous'' (by Rudyard Kipling)
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (by Lagerlöf, Selma Ottilia Lovisa)

Top Titles for Age 13

White Fang (by London, Jack)
My Ántonia (by Willa Cather)
The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by Charles Dickens)
Eight Cousins (by Alcott, Louisa May)
White Fang (by London, Jack)
Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds Are... (by Rabelais, Fr Ca)
Pygmalion (by Shaw, George Bernard)
Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by Hugo, Victor)
The Mark of Zorro (by Mcculley, Johnston)
Fairy Tales from Shakespeare (by Britton, Fay Adams)
Countess Julie (by Strindberg, August)
The monster and other stories (by Crane, Stephen)
The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by Charles Dickens)
Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by Wood, Eric)
Eight Cousins (by Alcott, Louisa May)

Top Titles for Age 14

Washington Square (by James, Henry)
The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by Charles Dickens)
The Story of My Life (by Helen Keller)
The Princess and the Goblin (by Macdonald, George)
Emma (by Austen, Jane)
Frankenstein (dramatic reading) (by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft)
Up from Slavery (by Washington, Booker T.)
The Mayor of Casterbridge (by Hardy, Thomas)
Tragedy of Macbeth, The (by Shakespeare, William)
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by Edgar Allan Poe)
The phantom of the opera (by Leroux, Gaston)
Sister Carrie (by Dreiser, Theodore)
Canterbury Tales, The (by Chaucer, Geoffrey)
The Phantom of the Opera (by Leroux, Gaston)

Top Titles for Age 15

The Tale of Genji (by Murasaki Shikibu)
Tempest, The (by Shakespeare, William)
Dracula (by Stoker, Bram)
Rome Express, The (by Griffiths, Arthur)
Lord Jim (by Conrad, Joseph)
Blue Beard
Crime and Punishment (by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor)
The Red Badge of Courage (by Crane, Stephen)
The Golden Bough (by Frazer, James George, Sir)
Red Badge of Courage, The (by Crane, Stephen)
Poems by Emily Dickinson (by Dickinson, Emily)
Romeo and Juliet (by Shakespeare, William)
Sign of the Four, The (by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir)
Coral Island, The (by Ballantyne, R.M.)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (by Stoker, Bram)

Top Titles for Age 16

The Prince and the Pauper (by Twain, Mark)
Prince and the Pauper, The (by Twain, Mark)
Uncle Vanya (by Chekhov, Anton)
The Professor And Poems (by Bronte, Charlotte)
The Travels of Marco Polo (by Marco Polo)
The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of l... (by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel De)
Hamlet (by Shakespeare, William)
Heart of Darkness (by Conrad, Joseph)
Quo Vadis (by Sienkiewicz, Henryk)
Cyrano de Bergerac (by Rostand, Edmond)
Quo vadis (by Sienkiewicz, Henryk)
To the Lighthouse (by Woolf, Virginia)
Shakespeare's King Lear (by Bloom, Harold)
Hamlet (by Shakespeare, William)
Hamlet (by Shakespeare, William)

Top Titles for Age 17

The Lost Continent (by Burroughs, Edgar Rice)
Tartuffe (by Poquelin, Jean Baptiste)
The Idiot (by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor)
The Woman in White (by Collins, Wilkie)
To Have and to Hold (by Johnston, Mary)
Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous M... (by Defoe, Daniel)
Wuthering Heights (by Brontë, Emily)
Odyssey, The (by Homer)
Ben-Hur (by Lewis Wallace)
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by Defoe, Daniel)
Tartuffe (by Molière)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (by Joyce, James)
Tartuffe (by Molière)
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedien... (by Thoreau, Henry David)
Shakespeare's tragedy of Anthony and Cle... (by Shakespeare, William)

Top Titles for Age 18

Anna Karenina (by Tolstoy, Leo)
Iliad, The (by Homer)
Walden (by Thoreau, Henry David)
The Iliad (by Homer)
Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by Henry David Thoreau)
Middlemarch (by Eliot, George Evans)
Mrs. Dalloway (by Woolf, Virginia)
The Sonnets (by Shakespeare, William)
Where Angels Fear to Tread (by Edward Morgan Forster)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (by Wilde, Oscar)
The Iliad (by Butler, Samuel)
Utopia (by More, Thomas, Sir)
Where Angels Fear to Tread (by Forster, E. M.)
Anna Karenina (by Tolstoy, Leo)
War and Peace, Book 01: 1805 (by Tolstoy, Leo)

Top Titles for Ages 18+

The Last of the Mohicans : a Tragedy, in... (by Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Last of the Moh...)
Gulliver's Travels (by Swift, Jonathan)
Vanity Fair (by Thackeray, William Makepeace)
The New Atlantis (by Bacon, Francis)
Prince, The (Version 2) (by Machiavelli, Niccolo)
Art of War, The (by Sun Tzu)
Bleak House (by Dickens, Charles)
Tender Buttons (by Stein, Gertrude)
Babbitt (by Lewis, Sinclair)
The Man in the Iron Mask, An Essay (by Dumas, Alexandre)
Beyond Good and Evil (by Nietzsche, Friedrich)
Gulliver's Travels (by Young, Victor, 1900-1956, Donor)
Babbitt (by Lewis, Sinclair)
Nostromo (by Joseph Conrad)
Last of the Mohicans, The (by Cooper, James Fenimore)