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
The Kite Runner
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
Norwegian Wood
Orhan Pamuk
Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at home but also to reach to the depths of our souls. The day arrives when the guilty must return to save those who could not find the courage to leave. ...more
Orhan Pamuk, Snow

John  Green
È che non mi piace dover vivere dentro un corpo. Se ha un senso. E penso che magari nel profondo sono solo uno strumento che esiste per trasformare l'ossigeno in diossido di carbonio, un mero organismo in questa...vastità. E mi fa tantissima paura l'idea che quello a cui penso come, tipo, al mio aperte virgolette io chiuse virgolette non sia sotto il mio controllo. Tipo sono sicura che ti sei accorto che in questo momento ho la mano sudata anche se fa troppo freddo per sudare, e odio questa cosa ...more
John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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