Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5

Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book
The velveteen rabbit; or, How toys becom... (by Bianco, Margery Williams)
The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. (by Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901, Ill)
Velveteen Rabbit, The (by Williams, Margery)
Mother Earth's Children; The Frolics of ... (by Gordon, Elizabeth)
The Little Red Hen
The Tale of Mr. Tod (by Potter, Beatrix)
The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (by Caldecott, Randolph)
Harrison's New Nursery Picture Book : Co... (by Bewick, Thomas)
Golden Goose Book, The (by Brooke, L. Leslie)
The Three Bears
The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by Leonard Leslie Brooke)
Baby's Abc Book
Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (by Brooke, L. Leslie)
Tale of Peter Rabbit (by Potter, Beatrix)

Top Titles for Age 6

Ferdinand Frog (by Bailey, Arthur Scott)
The Little Gingerbread Man (by Herbert, Robert Gaston, Ill)
Adventures of Sonny Bear (by Fox, Frances Margaret)
Adventures of Maya the Bee, The (by Bonsels, Waldemar)
Aunt Friendly's Gift (by Baker, Sarah Schoonmaker)
The purple cow! (by Burgess, Gelett)
The Little Red Balloon (by Hofman, Caroline)
The Tiny Picture Book
The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith)
Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit... (by Moore, Clement Clarke)
The Wise Gray Cat (by Caroline Hofman, Rachael Robinson Elmer)
The Fables of Aesop (by Aesop)
The Little People of the Snow (by William Cullen Bryant)
Jack and the Beanstalk
Little Tot's Picture Book (by Sheila Thibodeau Lambrinos Collection - York Unive...)

Top Titles for Age 7

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by Carroll, Lewis)
The Three Jovial Huntsmen : One of R. Ca... (by Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886)
The Song of Hiawatha (by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth)
Ozma of Oz (by Baum, Lyman Frank)
Pollyanna (by Porter, Eleanor Hodgman)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by Carroll, Lewis)
Pollyanna (by Porter, Eleanor H.)
The Dutch Twins (by Perkins, Lucy Fitch)
Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by Johnny Gruelle)
Beauty and the Beast (by Brett, Jan, 1949-)
Little Almond Blossoms : A Book of Chine... (by Knox, Jessie Juliet)
Song of Hiawatha, The (by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth)
Bambi (by Salten, Felix)
Old Roly Bear (by Lowe, Samual E.)
The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes : ... (by Goldsmith, Oliver)

Top Titles for Age 8

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by Baum, Lyman Frank)
Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The (by Baum, L. Frank)
The Jungle Book (by Kipling, Rudyard)
The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by Wilde, Oscar)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (by Burnett, Frances Hodgson)
Jungle Book, The (by Kipling, Rudyard)
The Tale of Lam-Ang and the Fire Giant (by Caligtan, Grace, Mrs.)
Lilliput Legends
Anne of Green Gables Illustrated By Anon... (by Montgomery, L.M.)
Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by Bateman, George W)
The story of King Arthur and his knights (by Pyle, Howard)
Rainbows for Children (by Lydia Maria Francis Child)
The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by Wilde, Oscar)
Happy Prince and Other Tales, The (by Wilde, Oscar)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (by Burnett, Frances Hodgson)

Top Titles for Age 9

What Katy Did at School (by Coolidge, Susan)
David Copperfield (by Dickens, Charles)
Christmas Carol, A (by Dickens, Charles)
A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by Dickens, Charles)
Tanglewood Tales (by Hawthorne, Nathaniel)
The Swiss family Robinson (by Wyss, Johann David)
Hunting of the Snark, The (by Carroll, Lewis)
Blue Fairy Book, The (by Lang, Andrew)
Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by Read it LOUD!)
The Wonder Clock (by Pyle, Howard)
Swiss Family Robinson, The (by Wyss, Johann David)
The Complete Book of Nonsense (by Lear, Edward)
Nan (by Lillie, Lucy Cecil White)
Last Fairy Tales (by Booth, Mary Louise)
The Little Story-Teller : A Selection of...

Top Titles for Age 10

The Children of Odin (by Colum, Padraic)
A Tale of Two Cities (by Charles Dickens)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (by Irving, Washington)
Treasure Island (by Stevenson, Robert Louis)
Black Beauty (by Sewell, Anna)
Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by London, Jack)
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by Barrie, J. M.)
Carrots, Just a Little Boy and a Christm... (by Molesworth, Mrs.)
Children of Odin, The (by Colum, Padraic)
Little Women (by Alcott, Louisa May)
Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The (by Irving, Washington)
Little Women (by Alcott, Louisa May)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan)
The Prince and the Page (by Yonge, Charlotte Mary)

Top Titles for Age 11

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by Mark Twain)
The Thousand and One Nights: The Arabian... (by Arabian Nights, Jonathan Scott)
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (by Pyle, Howard)
Jack, The Young Ranchman; Or, A Boy's Ad... (by Grinnell, George Bird)
The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (by Dickinson, Asa Don)
The Invisible Man (by Wells, Herbert George)
Lost in the Jungle
The Wide, Wide World (by Susan Warner)
Eyebright : A Story (by Coolidge, Susan)
The Three Musketeers (by Dumas, Alexandre)
The King of the Golden River (by Ruskin, John)
The Crescent Moon (by Tagore, Rabindranath)
The Royal Book of Oz: In which the Scare... (by Lyman Frank Baum)
The Mysterious Island (by Verne, Jules)
Jack, The Young Ranchman; Or, A Boy's Ad... (by Grinnell, George Bird)

Top Titles for Age 12

'Captains Courageous'' (by Rudyard Kipling)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith)
A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by Hutton, Laurence)
The Time Machine (by Wells, Herbert George)
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by Sidney, Margaret)
Tarzan of the Apes (by Burroughs, Edgar Rice)
A Room with a View (by Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970)
The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by Samuel Adams Drake)
Red true story book (by Lang, Andrew)
The wonderful adventures of Nils (by Lagerlöf, Selma)
The Secret Garden (by Burnett, Frances Hodgson)
A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by Laurence Hutton)
The Broken Vase, And Other Stories : For...
More magic pictures of the long ago; sto... (by Chandler, Anna Curtis)
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by Irving, Washington)

Top Titles for Age 13

Ragged Dick (by Alger, Horatio, Jr.)
A Book of Golden Deeds (by Yonge, Charlotte Mary)
Stories from Livy (by Church, Alfred John)
Rootabaga Stories (by Sandburg, Carl)
Jane Eyre (by Brontë, Charlotte)
My Antonia (by Willa Cather)
My Ántonia (by Willa Cather)
Around the World in Eighty Days (by Verne, Jules)
Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by Wood, Eric)
The monster and other stories (by Crane, Stephen)
Eight Cousins (by Alcott, Louisa May)
White Fang (by London, Jack)
Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by Hugo, Victor)
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (by Hugo, Victor)
Ragged Dick : Or, Street Life in New Yor... (by Alger, Horatio, Jr.)

Top Titles for Age 14

Sister Carrie (by Dreiser, Theodore)
Sense and Sensibility (version 3) (by Austen, Jane)
Washington Square (by James, Henry)
Washington Square (by James, Henry)
A Connecticut Yankee (by Twain, Mark)
Emma (by Austen, Jane)
Tom Brown's School Days (by Hughes, Thomas)
Riddle of the Sands (by Childers, Erskine)
The Mayor of Casterbridge (by Hardy, Thomas)
Canterbury Tales, The (by Chaucer, Geoffrey)
The Canterbury Tales (by Chaucer, Geoffrey)
Up from Slavery (by Washington, Booker T.)
The Story of Mankind (by Van Loon, Hendrik)
Arms and the Man (by Shaw, George Bernard)
A House-Boat on the Styx (by Bangs, John Kendrick)

Top Titles for Age 15

My Man Jeeves (by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville)
The Road Not Taken : An Introduction to ... (by Frost, Robert.)
Sign of the Four, The (by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir)
Innocents Abroad, The (by Twain, Mark)
Lord Jim (by Conrad, Joseph)
Les Miserables (by Hugo, Victor)
My Man Jeeves (by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville)
Rome Express, The (by Griffiths, Arthur)
The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by Mark Twain)
Blue Beard
Great Expectations (by Dickens, Charles)
Mansfield Park (by Austen, Jane)
The Red Badge of Courage
Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (by Dickinson, Emily)
The Rome Express (by Griffiths, Arthur)

Top Titles for Age 16

The Prince and the Pauper
Man Who Would Be King, The (by Kipling, Rudyard)
The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by Antin, Mary)
Uncle Vanya (by Chekhov, Anton)
To the Lighthouse (by Woolf, Virginia)
Metamorphosis, The (by Kafka, Franz)
Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by Conrad, Joseph)
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (by Ambrose Bierce)
The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stor... (by Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936)
The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of l... (by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel De)
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (by Pyle, Howard)
The Adventures of Captain Horn (by Stockton, Frank Richard)
Quo vadis (by Sienkiewicz, Henryk)
Lorna Doone (by Schaeffer, Mead)
The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by Antin, Mary)

Top Titles for Age 17

The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (by Lawrence, T. E.)
To Have and to Hold (by Johnston, Mary)
Faust I (by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von)
The Turn of the Screw (by James, Henry)
The Woman in White (by Collins, Wilkie)
The Odyssey (by Homer)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (by Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness)
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,... (by Stevenson, Robert Louis)
The Thirty-Nine Steps (by Buchan, John)
Wuthering Heights (by Brontë, Emily)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (by Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness)
The Origin of Species (by Darwin, Charles)
Tartuffe (by Molière)
Ben-Hur (by Lewis Wallace)
To Have and to Hold (by Johnston, Mary)

Top Titles for Age 18

Iliad, The (by Homer)
The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise,... (by I. Gollancz and H. Morten)
The Republic, Score Plato Rep (by Plato)
Walden; Or, Life in the Woods : Volume 2 (by Henry David Thoreau)
Middlemarch (by Eliot, George Evans)
Ivanhoe (by Scott, Walter, Sir)
The Iliad (by Butler, Samuel)
Middlemarch (by Eliot, George)
The Age of Innocence (by Wharton, Edith)
Anna Karenina (by Tolstoy, Leo)
Brothers Karamazov, The (by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor)
Paradise Lost (by Milton, John)
The Sonnets (by Shakespeare, William)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by Franklin, Benjamin)
Utopia (by More, Thomas)

Top Titles for Ages 18+

Babbitt (by Lewis, Sinclair)
The Great Learning
The Last of the Mohicans : a Tragedy, in... (by Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Last of the Moh...)
Moonfleet (by Falkner, J. Meade)
Prince, The (Version 2) (by Machiavelli, Niccolo)
The Man in the Iron Mask (by Dumas, Alexandre)
Last of the Mohicans, The (by Cooper, James Fenimore)
Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (by Stein, Gertrude)
Nostromo (by Joseph Conrad)
The Dialogues of Plato (by Plato)
Tender Buttons (by Stein, Gertrude)
A Raisin in the Sun Unabridged 25Th Anni... (by Lorraine Hansberry)
Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchause... (by Raspe, Rudolf Erich)
Pilgrim's Progress, The (by Bunyan, John)
The genius (by Dreiser, Theodore)