Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5

Mother Goose's nursery rhymes : a collec... (by Crane, Walter)
Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (by Brooke, L. Leslie)
The Tale of Mr. Tod (by Potter, Beatrix)
Baby's Own Aesop (by Crane, Walter)
Velveteen Rabbit, The (by Williams, Margery)
Harry's Ladder to Learning
The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. (by Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901, Ill)
Three Little Pigs
The Little Red Hen
The Little Engine That Could (by Lenski, Lois L.)
Baby's Abc Book
Adventures of Goody Two Shoes (by Goldsmith, Oliver)
Mother Earth's Children; The Frolics of ... (by Gordon, Elizabeth)
Golden Goose Book, The (by Brooke, L. Leslie)
Three Blind Mice (by Ivimey, John William)

Top Titles for Age 6

Johnny Crow's Garden (by Brooke, L. Leslie)
The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book
Purple Cow, The (by Burgess, Gelett)
Little Tot's Picture Book (by Sheila Thibodeau Lambrinos Collection - York Unive...)
The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith)
Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book (by Gruelle, Johnny)
The Little People of the Snow (by Bryant, William Cullen)
The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith)
Adventures of Sonny Bear (by Fox, Frances Margaret)
The Wise Gray Cat (by Caroline Hofman, Rachael Robinson Elmer)
Adventures of Maya the Bee, The (by Bonsels, Waldemar)
The Little People of the Snow (by William Cullen Bryant)
The Little Gingerbread Man (by Herbert, Robert Gaston, Ill)
Stories for Little Children (by Doughty, Sarah Parsons)
Aesops Fables (by Mcloughlin Bros., Inc. Pbl)

Top Titles for Age 7

Just So Stories (version 3) (by Kipling, Rudyard)
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 Li... (by Johnny Gruelle)
Raggedy Andy Stories : Introducing the L... (by Johnny Gruelle)
Stories for Children. First Reader Grade (by Mrs. Charles A. Lane)
Dutch Twins, The (by Perkins, Lucy Fitch)
Beauty and the Beast (by Perrault, Charles)
The Three Jovial Huntsmen (by Caldecott, Randolph)
The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes : ... (by Goldsmith, Oliver)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Abridg... (by Carroll, Lewis)
The Story of Little Jane and Me (by Blatchford, Mary E)
Little Almond Blossoms : A Book of Chine... (by Knox, Jessie Juliet)
Raggedy Ann stories (by Gruelle, Johnny)

Top Titles for Age 8

Understood Betsy (by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield)
The Jungle Book (by Kipling, Rudyard)
Rip Van Winkle (by Irving, Washington)
The Happy Prince and Other Tales and a H... (by Wilde, Oscar)
Bimbi. Stories for Children (by Ouida)
Rainbows for Children (by Lydia Maria Francis Child)
Children Stories (by Dickens, Charles)
The story of King Arthur and his knights (by Pyle, Howard)
Rainbows for Children (by Caroline Sturgis Tappan, Lydia Maria Francis Child...)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by Baum, Lyman Frank)
Heidi (by Spyri, Johanna)
Heidi (by Spyri, Johanna)
Understood Betsy (by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield)
Jungle Book, The (by Kipling, Rudyard)
King Arthur and His Knights (by Radford, Maude L.)

Top Titles for Age 9

Precious things: or, Winning words for y... (by William Wileman)
Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by Grahame, Kenneth)
The Hunting of the Snark (by Carroll, Lewis)
The Complete Book of Nonsense (by Lear, Edward)
A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by Dickens, Charles)
David Copperfield (by Dickens, Charles)
The Rose and the Ring (by Thackeray, William Makepeace)
King Solomon's Mines (by Haggard, Henry Rider)
Adventures of Paddy Beaver, The (by Burgess, Thornton W.)
King Solomon's Mines (by Haggard, H. Rider)
Nan (by Lillie, Lucy Cecil White)
The Troll Garden (by McClure, Phillips & Co. Pbl)
Nature Myths and Stories for Little Chil... (by Flora Juliette Cooke)
Peter and Wendy (by Barrie, James Matthew)
The Story of David Copperfield for Child... (by Gleason, Ray)

Top Titles for Age 10

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir)
The Thousand and One Nights, A New Tr. B... (by Arabian Nights)
Ben Comee; A Tale of Rogers's Rangers 17... (by Canavan, Michael Joseph)
Hans Brinker (by Mary Elizabeth Dodge)
Winnetou I (by May, Karl)
A Tale of Two Cities (by Charles Dickens)
The Four Million (by O. Henry)
Black Beauty (by Sewell, Anna)
Madame How and Lady Why; Or, First Lesso... (by Charles Kingsley)
Rocky Fork (by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell)
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by Barrie, James Matthew)
Treasure Island (by Stevenson, Robert Louis)
Carrots, Just a Little Boy and a Christm... (by Molesworth, Mrs.)
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by James Matthew Barrie)
Raven, The (by Poe, Edgar Allan)

Top Titles for Age 11

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (by Pyle, Howard)
The Railway Children (by Nesbit, Edith)
The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by Rossiter Johnson)
The Water-Babies (by Charles Kingsley)
The King of the Golden River (by Ruskin, John)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by Twain, Mark)
Lost in the Jungle
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom ... (by Twain, Mark)
The Cricket on the Hearth (by Charles Dickens)
Little Princess, A (by Burnett, Frances Hodgson)
The Invisible Man (by Wells, Herbert George)
Eyebright : A Story (by Susan Coolidge)
The Three Musketeers (by Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870)
Eyebright : A Story (by Coolidge, Susan)
Sea Fairies, The (by Baum, L. Frank)

Top Titles for Age 12

The Red True Story Book (by Lang, Andrew)
A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by Hutton, Laurence)
The Count of Monte Cristo (by Dumas, Alexandre)
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (by Sidney, Margaret)
Prisoner of Zenda, The (by Hope, Anthony)
The Magic Pudding (by Lindsay, Norman)
Broken Vase and Other Stories, The (by Anonymous)
A Room with a View (by Forster, E. M.)
A Room with a View (by Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970)
The Lost World (by Arthur Conan Doyle)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith)
The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by Drake, Samuel Adams)
Kidnapped (by Stevenson, Robert Louis)
The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by Samuel Adams Drake)
Kim (by Rudyard Kipling)

Top Titles for Age 13

A Book of Golden Deeds (by Yonge, Charlotte Mary)
Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by Wood, Eric)
Eight Cousins (by Alcott, Louisa May)
A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by Davy Crockett, Thomas Chilton)
My Antonia (by Willa Cather)
Jane Eyre (by Brontë, Charlotte)
Rootabaga Stories (by Sandburg, Carl)
A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by Davy Crockett)
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (by Hugo, Victor)
Jane Eyre (by Brontë, Charlotte)
Stories from Livy (by Church, Alfred John)
Countess Julie (by Strindberg, August)
The War of the Worlds (by Wells, Herbert George)
A Book of Golden Deeds (by Yonge, Charlotte Mary)
Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds Are... (by Rabelais, Fr Ca)

Top Titles for Age 14

The Princess and the Goblin (by Macdonald, George)
Frankenstein : Or, The Modern Prometheus... (by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft)
The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by Edgar Allan Poe)
Sense and Sensibility (by Austen, Jane)
Tom Brown's School Days (by Hughes, Thomas)
The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by Charles Dickens, C. Green)
Sense and Sensibility (by Austen, Jane)
A Connecticut Yankee (by Twain, Mark)
Tom Brown's schooldays (by Thomas Hughes)
The Story of Mankind (by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem)
Fathers and Sons (by Turgenev, Ivan)
The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by Edgar Allan Poe)
Sister Carrie (by Dreiser, Theodore)
The Princess and the Goblin (by Macdonald, George)
Sister Carrie (by Dreiser, Theodore)

Top Titles for Age 15

Midsummer Night's Dream, A (by Shakespeare, William)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (by Stoker, Bram)
Great Expectations (version 2) (by Dickens, Charles)
Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by Twain, Mark)
Mansfield Park (by Austen, Jane)
Sign of the Four, The (by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir)
The Devil's Pool (by Sand, George)
Tempest, The (by Shakespeare, William)
The Golden Bough (by Frazer, James George, Sir)
Romeo and Juliet (by Shakespeare, William)
The Red Badge of Courage
The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by Mark Twain)
The House Without a Key (by Biggers, Earl Derr)
Lord Jim (by Conrad, Joseph)
Great Expectations (by Dickens, Charles)

Top Titles for Age 16

Prince and the Pauper, The (by Twain, Mark)
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (by Ambrose Bierce)
The Travels of Marco Polo (by Marco Polo)
Uncle Vanya (by Checkov, Anton)
The Professor And Poems (by Bronte, Charlotte)
The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stor... (by Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936)
Shakespeare's King Lear (by Bloom, Harold)
Uncle Vanya (by Chekhov, Anton)
Hamlet (by Shakespeare, William)
The Prince and the Pauper (by Twain, Mark)
How I Found Livingstone (by Stanley, Sir Henry M.)
The Adventures of Captain Horn (by Stockton, Frank Richard, 1834-1902)
The Adventures of Captain Horn (by Stockton, Frank Richard)
King Lear (by Shakespeare, William)
Promised Land, The (by Antin, Mary)

Top Titles for Age 17

The Scarlet Pimpernel (by Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness)
To Have and to Hold (by Johnston, Mary)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by Stevenson, Robert Louis)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (by Joyce, James)
Tartuffe (by Molière)
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,... (by Stevenson, Robert Louis)
The Scarlet Letter (by Hawthorne, Nathaniel)
The Odyssey (by Homer)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (by Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness)
Odyssey, The (by Homer)
Wuthering Heights (by Brontë, Emily)
The Arabian Nights (by Burton, Richard)
Turn of the Screw, The (by James, Henry)
Idiot, The (Part 01 and 02) (by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor)
Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous M... (by Defoe, Daniel)

Top Titles for Age 18

Paradise Lost (by Milton, John)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (by Franklin, Benjamin)
Republic, The (by Plato)
A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by William Bligh)
Leaves of Grass (by Whitman, Walt)
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The (by Franklin, Benjamin)
Madame Bovary (by Flaubert, Gustave)
Paradise Lost (by Milton, John)
Middlemarch (by Eliot, George)
Madame Bovary (by Flaubert, Gustave)
Where Angels Fear to Tread (by Forster, Edward Morgan)
War and Peace (by Tolstoy, Leo)
Ivanhoe (by Scott, Walter, Sir)
Walden (by Thoreau, Henry David)
Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version), T... (by Wilde, Oscar)

Top Titles for Ages 18+

Gulliver's Travels (by Young, Victor, 1900-1956, Donor)
Bleak House (by Charles Dickens)
The Last of the Mohicans : a Tragedy, in... (by Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Last of the Moh...)
The Decameron Volume 1 (by Boccaccio, Giovanni)
Vanity Fair (by Thackeray, William Makepeace)
The Great Learning
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by Raspe, Rudolf Erich)
Bleak House (by Dickens, Charles)
Vanity Fair (by Thackeray, William Makepeace)
Nostromo (by Joseph Conrad)
Moonfleet (by Falkner, John Meade)
Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (by Stein, Gertrude)
Moonfleet (by Falkner, J. Meade)
The Genius (by Dreiser, Theodore)
Gulliver's Travels (by Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745)