Coming-of-age stories are a genre of literature that focuses on the growth of a person from youth to adulthood. These stories tend to emphasize dialogue or internal monologue over action, and are often set in the past. These seveb books are my top coming of age novels. seven novels that if you have’t read.. well you need to get on that 🙂 Have you got some good ones you want to share with me? I’d love to hear from you all.
‘When a child first catches adults out – when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just – his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone.’
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Little Woman
by Louisa May Alcott
Year: 1868
The Outsiders
by S.E. Hinton
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
Year: 1962
The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
Year: 2002
Forever
by Judy Blume
Year: 1975
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Year: 1960
I need to finally read it The Virgin Suicides and Little Women oh and also Steinbeck maybe I should just read the whole list 😂 I am always looking for a good Coming of Age … You should definitely read The Goldfinch it’s one of my favourite
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Oh will do luv 👍💜
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Oh My GOD, Forever was passed around our year at school so much that it fell apart! 😀 Had to hide it when I had it so my mother wouldn’t find it!!!
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Oh me too luv my man was the only parent that would but it!! Passed it on to all my friends.
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Wonderful list of books that you will want to read again after you read this 😉
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👍😊
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Great list, love coming of age novels! I’m dying to read the outsiders, my friend recommended it to me!! I would have added the bell jar to your list, but apart from that I loved it! 😉
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Thanks luv let me know what you think if the outsiders
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I just recently got The Outsiders. I have seen the movie already but I have never read the book. Also I have tried reading To Kill a Mockingbird but couldn’t get into it. I will definitely be giving it another shot though. I also have Little Women on my shelf but I have yet to read it.
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Oh the outsiders book is so much better then the movie!
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Your list is much cleaner than mine would be!
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Haha well gotta try..
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Great list! East of Eden is my favorite novel, and definitely deserves a spot on a coming of age list. Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man is another really powerful American coming of age story.
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Thanks luv 👍💜
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