“The Orphan Factory” tops list for ‘Great coming-of-age books’
Goodreads.com - the world’s leading site for books, readers and reviewers - has some amazing lists.
Here’s its Top 100 list for ‘Great coming-of-age books’: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3713.Great_Coming_Of_Age_Books#
And here’s the Top 10 (below) as at 9 October 2012 PST:
1
The Orphan Factory (The Orphan Trilogy, #2)
by James Morcan
4.60 avg rating — 35 ratingsscore: 1,498, and 15 people voted
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2
The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
3.75 avg rating — 883,250 ratings
score: 1,436, and 15 people voted
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3
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
4.21 avg rating — 1,194,930 ratings
score: 1,345, and 14 people voted
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4
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens3.64 avg rating — 177,415 ratings
score: 850, and 9 people voted
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5
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë4.05 avg rating — 517,486 ratings
score: 752, and 8 people voted
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6
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain3.75 avg rating — 605,412 ratings
score: 720, and 8 people voted
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7
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
by Judy Blume3.86 avg rating — 72,491 ratings
score: 589, and 7 people voted
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8
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by L.M. Montgomery4.21 avg rating — 200,602 ratings
score: 542, and 6 people voted
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9
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott3.95 avg rating — 605,241 ratings
score: 535, and 6 people voted
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10
Harriet the Spy
by Louise Fitzhugh3.97 avg rating — 33,541 ratings
score: 493, and 5 people voted
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(Points are based on the ranking of the book on each list and the number of people have voted for it. A book’s “score” is the total).
