Treasury · Age

Books for a reader aged…

The lists are not sorted by year at school, so this is the door for the question parents actually ask: what is there for a reader this old? Choose an age and the lists answer at that age.

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744 of these books cover age 16. The 490 that name no age at all are left off rather than guessed at — choose any age to bring them back.

Don't miss these at 16

These lists were made by different people for different reasons, and they are not trying to agree. The books below are the ones on at least two of them, the ones on the most lists first.

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, 1813 · ages 12–17 · Lexile 1070L · AR 12.0
on 6 lists Deep Roots Grade, Harvard Classics, Mensa Kids, St. John's College, The Good & The Beautiful, TJEd Adult Recommended
Don Quixote, Part 1 by Miguel Cervantes, 1612 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1410L · AR 13.2 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
on 5 lists Davidson Gifted, Harvard Classics, Mensa Kids, St. John's College, TJEd Youth Recommended
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, 1726 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1370L · AR 13.5 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
on 5 lists Davidson Gifted, Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids, St. John's College, TJEd Youth Recommended
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 1960 · ages 13–17 · Lexile 790L · AR 5.6 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
on 5 lists Beautiful Feet, Davidson Gifted, Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids, Time Magazine 1923-2005
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, 1843 · ages 10–17 · Lexile 910L · AR 6.7 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
on 4 lists Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids, The Good & The Beautiful, TJEd Early Recommended
Hamlet by William Shakespeare, 1603 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 650L · AR 10.5 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
on 4 lists Harvard Classics, Mensa Kids, St. John's College, TJEd Youth Recommended
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1973 · ages 14–17 · Lexile 860L · AR 6.1
on 4 lists Davidson Gifted, Mensa Kids, Time Magazine 1923-2005, TJEd Youth Recommended
Narrative on the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass, 1845 · ages 15–18 · Lexile 920L
on 4 lists Beautiful Feet, Halsted - Best Friends, Mensa Kids, TJEd Youth Recommended
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe, 1719 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 920L · AR 5.8 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
on 4 lists Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids, TJEd Adult Recommended, TJEd Youth Recommended
The Chosen by Chaim Potok, 1968 · ages 14–17 · Lexile 900L · AR 6.6 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
on 4 lists Davidson Gifted, Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids, TJEd Adult Recommended
The Giver by Lois Lowry, 1993 · ages 13–17 · Lexile 760L · AR 5.7 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
on 4 lists Davidson Gifted, Mensa Kids, Newbery Award, NY Public Library
The Odyssey by Homer, -800 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1050L · AR 10.3 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
on 4 lists Harvard Classics, Mensa Kids, St. John's College, TJEd Adult Recommended

72 books qualify at this age; these are the 12 on the most lists.

The whole of every list is still here: the Merit door.

The grade-level collections

The lists on this page were written for many ages at once. The Treasury's own collections, gathered one grade at a time, are a separate piece of work and are not finished.

Not open yet. Nothing here is being shown half-built: when a grade-level collection exists, it appears here with its own shelf.

Until then, the ages above and the lists behind the other two doors are the whole of what the catalog can honestly offer.