Category

American bildungsromans

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The Catcher in the Rye

1951 novel by J. D. Salinger

Charlotte's Web

1952 children's novel by E. B. White

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1876 adventure novel and bildungsroman by Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1884 novel by Mark Twain

To Kill a Mockingbird

novel by Harper Lee

Gone with the Wind

1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell

The Kite Runner

2003 novel by Khaled Hosseini

1869 novel by Louisa May Alcott

1909 novel by Jack London

Percy Jackson & the Olympians

children's fantasy adventure series

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick

Starship Troopers

1959 military science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein

A Wizard of Earthsea

1968 novel by Ursula K. Le Guin

2008 novel by John Green

Call Me By Your Name

2007 novel by André Aciman

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

1999 coming-of-age epistolary novel

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

1838 novel by Edgar Allan Poe

The Lovely Bones

2002 novel by Alice Sebold

Daddy-Long-Legs

American epistolary novel

1998 novel by Louis Sachar

2013 novel by Donna Tartt

Looking for Alaska

2005 novel by John Green

Where the Crawdads Sing

2018 novel by Delia Owens

1982 novel by Charles Bukowski

1985 novel by Cormac McCarthy

novella by Stephen King

This Side of Paradise

1920 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Tombs of Atuan

1971 novel by Ursula K. Le Guin

novel by S. E. Hinton

novel by Jeffrey Eugenides

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

1969 autobiography about the early years of African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou

The Chronicles of Prydain

novel series by Lloyd Alexander

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

novel by Becky Albertalli

The Diamond Age

1995 novel by Neal Stephenson

The Queen's Gambit

1983 book by Walter Tevis

2020 novel by Douglas Stuart

Washington Square

1880 romantic bildungsroman by Henry James

1886 novel by Louisa May Alcott

The Adventures of Augie March

1953 novel by Saul Bellow

Citizen of the Galaxy

novel by Robert A. Heinlein

Go Tell It on the Mountain

novel by James Baldwin

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

2012 novel by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Other Voices, Other Rooms

novel by Truman Capote

Their Eyes Were Watching God

1937 novel by Zora Neale Hurston

The House on Mango Street

1984 novel by Sandra Cisneros

They Both Die at the End

2017 young adult novel

Tuck Everlasting

1975 novel by Natalie Babbitt

novel by Robert A. Heinlein

Rite of Passage

1968 novel by Alexei Panshin

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

novel by Sherman Alexie

novel by Philip Roth

Roderick Hudson

novel by Henry James

novel by Anne Rice

2004 novel by Ursula K. Le Guin

book by Janet Fitch

Rubyfruit Jungle

1973 novel by Rita Mae Brown

Look Homeward, Angel

novel by Thomas Wolfe

The Secret Life of Bees

2002 novel by Sue Monk Kidd

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

1943 novel by Betty Smith

The City and the Pillar

novel by Gore Vidal