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  COMING OF AGE NOVELS

Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women

Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Baldacci, David. Wish You Well

Berg, Elizabeth. Durable Goods; Joy School;

  True to Form

Blume, Judy. Summer Sisters

Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre

Brookner, Anita. The Bay of Angels

Byatt, A.S. The Biographer’s Tale

Caputo, Philip. The Voyage

Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Cisneros, Sandra. House on Mango Street

Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage

DeWitt, Helen .The Last Samurai

Donnelly, Jennifer. A Northern Light

Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie

Eliot, George. Middlemarch

Enger, Leif. Peace Like a River

Fitch, Janet. White Oleander

Frank, Anne. Diary of a Young Girl

Gaskell, Elizabeth. Wives and Daughters

Gibbons, Kaye. Divining Women;  Ellen Foster

Goldberg, Myla. Bee Season

Golding, William Gerald. Lord of the Flies

Grimes, Martha. Paradise Hotel

Haddon, Mark. TheCurious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Haigh, Jennifer. Baker Towers

Hamilton, Jane. Disobedience

Haruf, Kent. Plainsong

Hegi, Ursula. Floating in My Mother’s Palm

Hinton, H.E. The Outsiders

Hoffman, Alice. Local Girls

Hornby, Nick. About a Boy

House, Silas D. Clay’s Quilt

Irving, John. The Cider House Rules

Jen, Gish. Mona in the Promised Land

Kidd, Sue Monk. The Secret Life of Bees

Kimmel, Haven. Something Rising (Light and Swift)

Kinsella, Sophie. Confessions of a Shopaholic

Knowles, John. A Separate Peace

Lackey, Mercedes. Firebird

Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Namesake

Lawrence, D.H. Sons and Lovers

Lawson, Mary. Crow Lake

Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird

Letts, Billie. Where the Heart Is

Maclean, Norman. A River Runs Through It

Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain

Marshall, Catherine. Christy

Martin, Steve. Shopgirl

Maugham, W. Somerset. Of Human Bondage;

The Razor’s Edge

McCammon, Robert. Boy’s Life

McCarthy, Cormac. All the Pretty Horses;

The Crossing;  Cities of the Plain

McCourt, Frank. Angela’s Ashes

McCullers, Carson. Member of the Wedding;

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

McMurtry, Larry. The Last Picture Show

Montgomery, L.M. Anne of Green Gables series

Morgan Robert. Gap Creek

Moore, Lorrie. Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

Morris, Willie. Taps

Park, June. The Bingo Queens of Paradise

Paulson, Gary. Hatchet

Percy, Walker. The Moviegoer

Quindlen, Anna. Object Lessons

Reynolds, Sheri. The Rapture of Canaan

Robinson, Marilynne. Housekeeping

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter series

Rubio, Gwyn Hyman. Icy Sparks

Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye

Siddons, Anne Rivers. Nora, Nora

Sittenfeld, Curtis. Prep: A Novel

Smith, Betty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Sparks, Nicholas. A Walk to Remember

Stacy, Judith Minthorn. Styles by Maggie Sweet

Steinbeck, John. The Red Pony

Styron, William. Sophie’s Choice

Turner, Nancy E. The Water and the Blood

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Tyler, Anne. Saint Maybe

Watson, Larry. Montana 1948

Wolff, Tobias. Old School

Wrobleski, David. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle