Bildungsroman

Bildungsroman or coming-of-age story is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood and in which character change is thus extremely important.

The Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird
Jane Eyre
Great Expectations
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
The Goldfinch
The Outsiders
David Copperfield
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Kite Runner
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Norwegian Wood
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
Rebecca Rukeyser
My ferocity was leveled at becoming.
Rebecca Rukeyser, The Seaplane on Final Approach

Jacqueline Woodson
The only curse you carry, her mother said, is the dark skin I passed on to you. You gotta find a way past that skin. You gotta find your way to the outside of it. Stay in the shade. Don't let it get no darker than it already is. Don't drink no coffee either. ...more
Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn

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