British bildungsromans

1997–2007 fantasy book series by J. K. Rowling

1937 fantasy novel by J. R. R. Tolkien

1883 novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson

1837–1839 novel by Charles Dickens

Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell". It concerns two extensive upland estates and their landowning families on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons; and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff. Driven by themes of love, possession, revenge, and reconciliation, the novel is influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction. It is considered a classic of English literature.

1847 novel by Charlotte Brontë

1861 novel by Charles Dickens

1849–1850 novel by Charles Dickens

1815 novel by Jane Austen

2001 novel by Philip Reeve

1817 novel by Jane Austen

1749 novel by Henry Fielding

1748 novel by John Cleland

1847 novel by Anne Brontë

novel by Henry James

1915 novel and bildungsroman by William Somerset Maugham

1886 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson

1853 Victorian bildungsroman by Charlotte Brontë

1995 novel by Nick Hornby

1955 novel by John Wyndham

1880 romantic bildungsroman by Henry James

2020 novel by Douglas Stuart

1938 novel by T. H. White

book by Jeanette Winterson

1998 novel by Nick Hornby

novel by Henry James

1908 novel by Henry de Vere Stacpoole

novel by Mary Wollstonecraft

1984 novel by Iain Banks

novel by Arthur Conan Doyle

1959 Australian novel

novel by Henry James

book by Mary Renault

1998 novel by Sarah Waters

English novel written by Julian Barnes

novel by Henry James

number9dream is the second novel by English author David Mitchell. Set in Japan, the 2001 novel narrates 19-year-old Eiji Miyake's search for his father, whom he has never met. Told in the first person by Eiji, it is a coming of age and perception story that breaks convention by juxtaposing Eiji Miyake's actual journey toward identity and understanding with his imaginative journey. The novel employs eclectic narrations in each chapter.

2005 novel by Joanne Harris

1944 novel by A. J. Cronin

coming of age novel by English writer David Mitchell

1948 novel by Dodie Smith