Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
1847
Books with the “Coming of Age” trope
A young character grows up through first love, mistakes, and finding their place in the world.
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Plot twists · Coming of Age
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Circe
Madeline Miller
2018
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
2007
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
2008
Uprooted
Naomi Novik
2015
The Thorn Birds
Colleen McCullough
1977
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
1936
The Poppy War
R. F. Kuang
2018
Nevernight
Jay Kristoff
2016
The Warded Man
Peter V. Brett
2008
Assassin's Apprentice
Robin Hobb
1995
The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien
1937
The Book of Three
Lloyd Alexander
1964
A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
1968
The Neverending Story
Michael Ende
1979
The Dragonbone Chair
Tad Williams
1988
Eragon
Christopher Paolini
2002
The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan
2005
Vita Nostra
Marina Dyachenko and Sergey Dyachenko
2007
Legendborn
Tracy Deonn
2020
The School for Good and Evil
Soman Chainani
2013
The Bear and the Nightingale
Katherine Arden
2017
Northern Lights
Philip Pullman
1995
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
1985
Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein
1959
Tress of the Emerald Sea
Brandon Sanderson
2023
The Cat Who Saved Books
Sosuke Natsukawa
2017
Ella Enchanted
Gail Carson Levine
1997
Divergent
Veronica Roth
2011
Delirium
Lauren Oliver
2011
The Giver
Lois Lowry
1993
Uglies
Scott Westerfeld
2005
The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson
1995
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
2011
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
1884
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
1868
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
1861
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
1960
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
1954
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
2005
Atonement
Ian McEwan
2001
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
2003
The Red and the Black
Stendhal
1830
The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
2001
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
2005
Looking for Alaska
John Green
2005
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green
2012
The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
1967
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
2008
Scythe
Neal Shusterman
2016
An Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir
2015
Thirteen Reasons Why
Jay Asher
2007
A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness
2011
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
2003
Eleanor & Park
Rainbow Rowell
2012
Fangirl
Rainbow Rowell
2013
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Jenny Han
2014
Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson
1999
The Darkest Minds
Alexandra Bracken
2012
The Raven Boys
Maggie Stiefvater
2012
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
Jessica Townsend
2017
The Last Kingdom
Bernard Cornwell
2004
The Crystal Cave
Mary Stewart
1970
Kristin Lavransdatter
Sigrid Undset
1920
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
1883
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
1903
North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell
1855
Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
1874
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
1891
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
1937
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
1963
They Both Die at the End
Adam Silvera
2017
Normal People
Sally Rooney
2018
The Cruel Prince
Holly Black
2018
Kushiel's Dart
Jacqueline Carey
2001
The Goose Girl
Shannon Hale
2003
Daughter of the Moon Goddess
Sue Lynn Tan
2022
Pawn of Prophecy
David Eddings
1982
The Blue Sword
Robin McKinley
1982
The Dark Is Rising
Susan Cooper
1973
Sabriel
Garth Nix
1995
Malice
John Gwynne
2012
Blood Song
Anthony Ryan
2011
The Shadow of What Was Lost
James Islington
2014
Prince of Thorns
Mark Lawrence
2011
The Rage of Dragons
Evan Winter
2017
The Way of Shadows
Brent Weeks
2008
The Magicians
Lev Grossman
2009
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
2014
The Greatest Knight
Elizabeth Chadwick
2005
The Long Ships
Frans G. Bengtsson
1941
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold
2002
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Leslye Walton
2014
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
2017
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
2017
The Astonishing Color of After
Emily X.R. Pan
2018
Every Summer After
Carley Fortune
2022
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
1993
Red Rising
Pierce Brown
2014
The Little Friend
Donna Tartt
2002
Shatter Me
Tahereh Mafi
2011
We Were Liars
E. Lockhart
2014
Matched
Ally Condie
2010
The 5th Wave
Rick Yancey
2013
Red Queen
Victoria Aveyard
2015
Cemetery Boys
Aiden Thomas
2020
Every Heart a Doorway
Seanan McGuire
2016
Six Crimson Cranes
Elizabeth Lim
2021
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
2012
The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
2017
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
1999
The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain
1881
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
1838
Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery
1908
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
1911
I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith
1948
The Goblin Emperor
Katherine Addison
2014
Red Sister
Mark Lawrence
2017
The Amulet of Samarkand
Jonathan Stroud
2003
Rebel of the Sands
Alwyn Hamilton
2016
The False Prince
Jennifer A. Nielsen
2012
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
1985
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
1869
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
1929
The Troop
Nick Cutter
2014
My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Stephen Graham Jones
2021
Clown in a Cornfield
Adam Cesare
2020
The Reformatory
Tananarive Due
2023
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
2018
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
2020
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson
2019
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
1951
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
1988
Love and Other Words
Christina Lauren
2018
Before We Were Strangers
Renée Carlino
2015
The Chrysalids
John Wyndham
1955
The Girl with All the Gifts
M. R. Carey
2014
Life After Life
Kate Atkinson
2013
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