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
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
David Copperfield
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Kite Runner
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
Cressida Cowell
You are small. You have red hair. You don’t realize it yet, but you are about to set out on the most alarming episode of your life so far…
Cressida Cowell, How to Speak Dragonese

Roman Payne
The day came when she discovered sex, sensuality, and literature; she said, 'I submit! Let my life be henceforth ruled by poetry. Let me reign as the queen of my dreams until I become nothing less than the heroine of God. ...more
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