A Tree Grows in Brooklyn was a re-read. I read it as a teenager and then again a couple of years ago.

It is another Bildungsroman!

It's also classified, often, as "young adult." But I got much more out of reading it as a grown-up than I did as a "young adult."

This is not your Catcher in the Rye or Bell Jar progress of a troubled young soul type of book. It's about a family trying to survive in grinding poverty and the indomitable human spirit. Or something.

Anyway it's magical.