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Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book 
  • The House That Jack Built (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • The Story of Ferdinand (by )
  • The velveteen rabbit; or, How toys becom... (by )
  • The Little Engine That Could (by )
  • Harry's Ladder to Learning 
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • Denslow's Three Bears (by )
  • The Velveteen Rabbit; Or, How Toys Becom... (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • The Little Gingerbread Man (by )
  • Cinderella; Or, The Little Glass Slipper... 
  • The National Nursery Book : Comprising :... 
  • Ferdinand Frog (by )
  • The National Nursery Book 
  • Johnny Crow's Garden; A Picture Book (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • Aesops Fables (by )
  • Adventures of Sonny Bear (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
  • The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book 
  • The Adventures of Maya, The Bee (by )
  • Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
  • Dutch Twins, The (by )
  • Ozma of Oz (version 3) (by )
  • Old King Cole (by )
  • Green Fairy Book, The (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars; (by )
  • The First Days of Man, As Narrated Quite... (by )
  • A Book of Discoveries (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables (by )
  • Lilliput Legends 
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
  • King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • Children Stories (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • Christmas Carol, A (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • David Copperfield (by )
  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
  • The Wonder Clock (by )
  • The Second Jungle Book (by )
  • The Little Story-Teller : A Selection of... 
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • Peter and Wendy (by )
  • Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by )
  • The Hunting of the Snark (by )
  • Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The (by )
  • Piccino, And Other Child Stories (by )
  • Hunting of the Snark, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • General Principles of Zoology (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Light Princess, The (by )
  • Tale of Two Cities, A (by )
  • Under the lilacs (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • The Story of Captain Meriwether Lewis an... (by )
  • The Peterkin Papers (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • Madame How and Lady Why; Or, First Lesso... (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • The story of Captain Meriwether Lewis an... (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • Sea Fairies, The (by )
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom ... (by )
  • Little Princess, A (by )
  • A Journey to the Center of the Earth (by )
  • Island of Dr. Moreau, The (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
  • Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, The (by )
  • The Railway Children (by )
  • A Little Princess (by )
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (by )
  • The Invisible Man (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • The Prisoner of Zenda (by )
  • More magic pictures of the long ago; sto... (by )
  • Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Th... (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • Oliver Twist (by )
  • Prisoner of Zenda, The (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • The Broken Vase, And Other Stories : For... 
  • Secret Garden, The (by )
  • Captains Courageous (by )
  • Stories of World History (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • The wonderful adventures of Nils (by )
  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds Are... (by )
  • Robinson Crusoe (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (version... (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Pygmalion (by )
  • Great Stories of All Nations (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
  • Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (by )
  • The monster and other stories (by )
  • Countess Julie (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • Emma (by )
  • Oregon Trail, The (by )
  • Sister Carrie (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (version 3) (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Cour... (by )
  • Macbeth (by )
  • The Phantom of the Opera (by )
  • Tom Brown's schooldays (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
  • A House-Boat on the Styx (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • The Tale of Genji (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • Tempest, The (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • Les Miserables (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage (by )
  • Sign of the Four, The (by )
  • Dracula (by )
  • Lord Jim (by )
  • The Coral Island (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage 
  • Dracula (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Promised Land, The (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • Don Quixote - Vol. 1 (by )
  • The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stor... (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • Round the World on a Wheel : Being the N... (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (by )
  • The Professor And Poems (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper (by )
  • The Prince and the Pauper 
  • Quo Vadis (by )
  • Prince and the Pauper, The (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Idiot, The (Part 01 and 02) (by )
  • On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Versio... (by )
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • To Have And To Hold (by )
  • Scarlet Pimpernel, The (by )
  • To Have and to Hold (by )
  • The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (by )
  • Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedien... (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • Animal Farm (by )
  • Woman in White, The (by )
  • Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (by )
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (by )
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • The Iliad (by )
  • This Side of Paradise (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • War and Peace (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • Anna Karenina (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The (by )
  • Mrs. Dalloway (by )
  • Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Brothers Karamazov, The (by )
  • The Age of Innocence (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchause... (by )
  • The Prince (by )
  • The New Atlantis (by )
  • Prince, The (Version 2) (by )
  • Democracy in America (by )
  • Pilgrim's Progress, Score Chr Bunyan (by )
  • The Sun Also Rises (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • The Divine Comedy (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solom... (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • The Decameron Volume 1 (by )
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