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Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

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Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Velveteen Rabbit, The (by )
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • The Velveteen Rabbit; Or, How Toys Becom... (by )
  • Mother Goose's nursery rhymes : a collec... (by )
  • The velveteen rabbit; or, How toys becom... (by )
  • Harrison's New Nursery Picture Book : Co... (by )
  • Baby's Lullaby Book : Mother Songs (by )
  • Little Bo Peep 
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin .. (by )
  • Mother Earth's Children; The Frolics of ... (by )
  • House that Jack Built, The (by )
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The House That Jack Built (by )
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Top Titles for Age 6


  • The Fables of Aesop (by )
  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and ... (by )
  • The purple cow! (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (by )
  • Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book (by )
  • Pets and Playmates 
  • The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book 
  • The Purple Cow! (by )
  • Adventures of Maya the Bee, The (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk 
  • Twas the Night before Christmas; A Visit... (by )
  • The National Nursery Book : Comprising :... 
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit... (by )
  • The Little Gingerbread Man (by )
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Top Titles for Age 7


  • Just so Stories : For Little Children (by )
  • Bambi ṿald mayśele (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes : ... (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • Dutch Twins, The (by )
  • Song of Hiawatha, The (by )
  • Stories for Children. First Reader Grade (by )
  • The History of Little Goody Two Shoes : ... (by )
  • The Story of Little Jane and Me (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • The Song of Hiawatha (by )
  • Pollyanna (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
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Top Titles for Age 8


  • Heroes Every Child Should Know (by )
  • Cottage Verses for Young Readers (by )
  • Heroes Every Child Should Know : Tales f... (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • The sleeping beauty (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • Bimbi : Stories for Children (by )
  • King Arthur and His Knights (by )
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Zanzibar Tales (by )
  • Puss in Boots (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • Five Children and It, Version 2 (by )
  • The Cuckoo Clock (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
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Top Titles for Age 9


  • The Complete Book of Nonsense (by )
  • Swiss Family Robinson, The (by )
  • King Solomon's Mines (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • The Story of David Copperfield for Child... (by )
  • Precious things: or, Winning words for y... (by )
  • Blue Fairy Book, The (by )
  • Nan (by )
  • The Troll Garden (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
  • The Adventures of Columbus : Early Ameri... (by )
  • The Little Story-Teller : A Selection of... 
  • The Blue Fairy Book (by )
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Top Titles for Age 10


  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (by )
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • Winnetou I (by )
  • Ben Comee; A Tale of Rogers's Rangers 17... (by )
  • Light Princess, The (by )
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by )
  • A Tale of Two Cities (by )
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (by )
  • Dutch Courage and Other Stories (by )
  • Rocky Fork (by )
  • Peterkin Papers, The (by )
  • Little Women (by )
  • The Fairchild Family (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • Under the lilacs (by )
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Top Titles for Age 11


  • Children's Book of Christmas Stories, Th... (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz : In Which the Scar... (by )
  • A Journey to the Center of the Earth (by )
  • The thousand and one nights: the Arabian... (by )
  • Water-Babies, The (by )
  • Eyebright : A Story (by )
  • The Flower and the Star and Other Storie... (by )
  • The King of the Golden River (by )
  • The Sea Fairies (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (by )
  • Invisible Man, The (by )
  • Wide, Wide World, The (by )
  • The Three Musketeers (by )
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Top Titles for Age 12


  • Room with a View, A (by )
  • The Broken Vase, And Other Stories : For... 
  • Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Th... (by )
  • The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (by )
  • The Secret Garden (by )
  • 'Captains Courageous'' (by )
  • The Lost World (by )
  • More magic pictures of the long ago; sto... (by )
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (by )
  • The Time Machine (by )
  • Call of the Wild, The (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
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Top Titles for Age 13


  • Ragged Dick (by )
  • The War of the Worlds (by )
  • Notre-Dame de Paris Aka the Hunchback of... (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Shakespeare (by )
  • Old Curiosity Shop, The (by )
  • White Fang (by )
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (by )
  • Countess Julie (by )
  • Great Stories of All Nations (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
  • Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds Are... (by )
  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket... (by )
  • Robinson Crusoe (by )
  • Eight Cousins (by )
  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 1 (by )
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Top Titles for Age 14


  • The Old Curiosity Shop : Volume 2 (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands, The (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe (by )
  • Sense and Sensibility (by )
  • The phantom of the opera (by )
  • Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • Washington Square (by )
  • Story of My Life, The (by )
  • Canterbury Tales, The (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • The Story of My Life (by )
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Top Titles for Age 15


  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • Tempest, The (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • Sign of the Four, The (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage 
  • Crime and Punishment (by )
  • Innocents Abroad, The (by )
  • The Tempest (by )
  • The House Without a Key (by )
  • Great Expectations (version 2) (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (by )
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • Dracula (by )
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Top Titles for Age 16


  • Hamlet (by )
  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (by )
  • Heart of Darkness (version 2) (by )
  • How I Found Livingstone (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
  • King Lear (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor (by )
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • Lorna Doone (by )
  • Hamlet (by )
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Top Titles for Age 17


  • Lost Continent, The (Beyond Thirty) (by )
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H... (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • Julius Caesar (by )
  • The Scarlet Letter (by )
  • Faust (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
  • The Odyssey (by )
  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
  • Turn of the Screw, The (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Versio... (by )
  • The Lost Continent (by )
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famo... (by )
  • The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (by )
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Top Titles for Age 18


  • This side of paradise (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • The Brothers Karamazov (by )
  • Anna Karenina -2 (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version), T... (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • The Sonnets (by )
  • Anna Karenina (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Walden (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Silas Marner (by )
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Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • The Art of War (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Beyond Good and Evil (by )
  • The Great Learning 
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • Pilgrim's Progress, The (by )
  • Decameron, The (by )
  • Prince, The (Version 2) (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
  • New Atlantis, The (by )
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the R... (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
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