World Library  
  

Top 25 Must Have Books by Age Category

Click To View

Top Titles for Ages 2 to 5


  • Little Mary; Or, The Picture-Book 
  • Three Little Pigs 
  • Three Blind Mice (by )
  • The House That Jack Built (by )
  • Little Bo Peep 
  • Johnny Crow's Party; Another Picture Boo... (by )
  • Little Bo-Peep; A Nursery Rhyme Picture ... 
  • Mother Goose's nursery rhymes : a collec... (by )
  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes : A Collec... (by )
  • Golden Goose Book, The (by )
  • Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (by )
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit (by )
  • The Golden Goose Book, Being the Stories... (by )
  • Mother Earth's Children; The Frolics of ... (by )
  • Baby's Lullaby Book : Mother Songs (by )
Scroll Left
Scroll Right

Click To View

Top Titles for Age 6


  • The Curious Adventures of Cinderella, Or... 
  • Adventures of Maya the Bee, The (by )
  • Fairy Tales/By Hans Christian Andersen; ... (by )
  • The Little Gingerbread Man (by )
  • The Wise Gray Cat (by )
  • Johnny Crow's Garden (by )
  • Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (by )
  • The Little People of the Snow (by )
  • The Marquis of Carabas Picture Book 
  • Picture Book Garden 
  • The Story Hour; A Book for the Home and ... (by )
  • Jack and the Beanstalk and Other Stories 
  • The Story of Chicken Little: Rhymed and ... (by )
  • The Fables of Aesop (by )
  • Aesops Fables (by )
Scroll Left
Scroll Right

Click To View

Top Titles for Age 7


  • Old Roly Bear (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Abridg... (by )
  • The Children's Book of Stars (by )
  • Beauty and the Beast (by )
  • The Dutch Twins (by )
  • The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (by )
  • Stories for Children. First Reader Grade (by )
  • The First Days of Man, As Narrated Quite... (by )
  • Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2) (by )
  • Raggedy Ann stories (by )
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by )
  • Ozma De Oz (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Mrs. Peter Rabbit (by )
  • Old King Cole (by )
Scroll Left
Scroll Right

Click To View

Top Titles for Age 8


  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (by )
  • Bimbi : Stories for Children (by )
  • Rainbows for Children (by )
  • Anne of Green Gables Illustrated By Anon... (by )
  • The Jungle Book (by )
  • Understood Betsy (by )
  • The Sleeping Beauty (by )
  • Jungle Book, The (by )
  • The story of King Arthur and his knights (by )
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (by )
  • Dickens' Stories about Children Every Ch... (by )
  • Heidi (by )
  • Zanzibar tales told by natives of the ea... (by )
  • Five Children and It (by )
  • Rip Van Winkle (by )
Scroll Left
Scroll Right

Click To View

Top Titles for Age 9


  • Nan (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (by )
  • The Swiss family Robinson (by )
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) (by )
  • The Hunting of the Snark (by )
  • Wind in the Willows, The (version 2) (by )
  • Swiss Family Robinson, The (by )
  • Tanglewood Tales (by )
  • Read it LOUD!, Little Red Riding Hood (by )
  • Last Fairy Tales (by )
  • A Christmas Carol, Score Etc Acc Volume Vol. III (by )
  • The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • What Katy Did at School (by )
  • The Wind in the Willows (by )
Scroll Left
Scroll Right

Click To View

Top Titles for Age 10


  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 
  • Children of Odin, The (by )
  • Winnetou, The Apache Knight (by )
  • The Raven (by )
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by )
  • Black Beauty (by )
  • Peterkin Papers, The (by )
  • Treasure Island (by )
  • Under the Lilacs (by )
  • The Thousand and One Nights, A New Tr. B... (by )
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by )
  • Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Hor... (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
  • Tale of Two Cities, A (by )
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (by )
Scroll Left
Scroll Right

Click To View

Top Titles for Age 11


  • Journey to the Interior of the Earth, A (by )
  • Lost in the Jungle 
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • The Water-Babies (by )
  • The End of a Rainbow: An American Story (by )
  • The Crescent Moon (by )
  • Jack, The Young Ranchman; Or, A Boy's Ad... (by )
  • Pride and Prejudice (by )
  • The Royal Book of Oz: In which the Scare... (by )
  • Jack, The Young Ranchman; Or, A Boy's Ad... (by )
  • The thousand and one nights: the Arabian... (by )
  • The Three Musketeers (by )
  • Railway Children, The (by )
  • Invisible Man, The (by )
Scroll Left
Scroll Right

Click To View

Top Titles for Age 12


  • Land that Time Forgot, The (by )
  • Kidnapped (by )
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • The Land That Time Forgot (by )
  • Red true story book (by )
  • A Boy I Knew : Four Dogs, And Some More ... (by )
  • The Call of the Wild (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • Tarzan of the Apes (by )
  • The Broken Vase, And Other Stories : For... 
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm (by )
  • Count of Monte Cristo, The (by )
  • Kim (by )
  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (by )
  • The Prisoner of Zenda : Being the Histor... (by )
Scroll Left
Scroll Right

Click To View

Top Titles for Age 13


  • White Fang (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • Ragged Dick : Or, Street Life in New Yor... (by )
  • The War of the Worlds (by )
  • My Ántonia (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • Three Good Giants Whose Famous Deeds Are... (by )
  • Robinson Crusoe (by )
  • Stories from Livy (by )
  • The Mark of Zorro (by )
  • The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (by )
  • The monster and other stories (by )
  • Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers (by )
  • Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, T... (by )
  • A Book of Golden Deeds (by )
Scroll Left
Scroll Right

Click To View

Top Titles for Age 14


  • Captain Blood (by )
  • Captain Blood (by )
  • Frankenstein (dramatic reading) (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • Riddle of the Sands (by )
  • Tom Brown's School Days : By Thomas Hugh... (by )
  • Up from Slavery (by )
  • The Phantom of the Opera (by )
  • Fathers and Sons (by )
  • Princess and the Goblin, The (by )
  • Emma (by )
  • The Oregon Trail (by )
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (by )
  • The Princess and the Goblin (by )
  • Tom Brown's schooldays (by )
Scroll Left
Scroll Right

Click To View

Top Titles for Age 15


  • Great Expectations (version 2) (by )
  • The Red Badge of Courage 
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • The sign of the four and other stories (by )
  • My Man Jeeves (by )
  • The Writings of Mark Twain : Volume 1 (by )
  • Mansfield Park (by )
  • Agnes Grey (by )
  • Devil's Pool, The (by )
  • The Golden Bough (by )
  • The Devil's Pool (by )
  • Complete Letters of Mark Twain (by )
  • Great Expectations (by )
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (by )
  • Dracula (by )
Scroll Left
Scroll Right

Click To View

Top Titles for Age 16


  • The Adventures of Captain Horn (by )
  • Promised Land, The (by )
  • To the Lighthouse (by )
  • The Promised Land, By Mary Antin; (by )
  • Don Quixote - Vol. 1 (by )
  • Metamorphosis (by )
  • Lorna Doone (by )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (by )
  • Uncle Tom's cabin : or, Life among the l... (by )
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (by )
  • Letters from the Earth (by )
  • Shakespeare's King Lear (by )
  • The Travels of Marco Polo (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
  • Uncle Vanya (by )
Scroll Left
Scroll Right

Click To View

Top Titles for Age 17


  • The Woman in White (by )
  • The Odyssey (by )
  • The Grapes of Wrath (by )
  • The Idiot (by )
  • Odyssey, The (by )
  • The Woman in White (by )
  • The Odyssey (by )
  • Ben-Hur (by )
  • Ben-Hur : A Tale of the Christ (by )
  • Tartuffe (by )
  • The Turn of the Screw (by )
  • Faust I (by )
  • The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (by )
  • The Arabian Nights (by )
  • Wuthering Heights (by )
Scroll Left
Scroll Right

Click To View

Top Titles for Age 18


  • Madame Bovary (by )
  • Iliad, The (by )
  • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • Shakespeare's Sonnets (by )
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (by )
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread (by )
  • This side of paradise (by )
  • Leaves of Grass (by )
  • Utopia (by )
  • A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His M... (by )
  • Silas Marner (by )
  • The Age of Innocence (by )
  • Paradise Lost (by )
  • Ivanhoe (by )
Scroll Left
Scroll Right

Click To View

Top Titles for Ages 18+


  • The New Atlantis (by )
  • The Pilgrim's Progress (by )
  • Vanity Fair (by )
  • The Art of War (by )
  • The Man in the Iron Mask, An Essay (by )
  • Moonfleet (by )
  • Man in the Iron Mask, The (by )
  • Nostromo (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • Decameron, The (by )
  • Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solom... (by )
  • The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munch... (by )
  • Babbitt (by )
  • Gulliver's Travels (by )
Scroll Left
Scroll Right



Copyright © World Library Foundation. All rights reserved. eBooks from Project Gutenberg are sponsored by the World Library Foundation,
a 501c(4) Member's Support Non-Profit Organization, and is NOT affiliated with any governmental agency or department.