138 books
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42 voters
Bildungsroman Books
Showing 1-50 of 9,716
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 421 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,926,938 ratings — published 1951
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 377 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,955,740 ratings — published 1960
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 298 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,350,038 ratings — published 1847
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 3.80 — 880,457 ratings — published 1861
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 215 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,021,209 ratings — published 1999
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 196 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,486,177 ratings — published 1868
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,052,357 ratings — published 2013
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,628,891 ratings — published 1967
David Copperfield (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.05 — 261,163 ratings — published 1850
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 3.64 — 165,429 ratings — published 1916
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,526,879 ratings — published 2003
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.30 — 518,060 ratings — published 1943
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 3.99 — 741,322 ratings — published 1987
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 125 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,343,086 ratings — published 1885
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 122 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,530,766 ratings — published 1997
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 122 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,125,749 ratings — published 1908
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 107 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.05 — 480,337 ratings — published 2011
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 3.85 — 871,280 ratings — published 2005
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.46 — 826,414 ratings — published 2022
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 96 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,679,117 ratings — published 2018
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 94 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,145,633 ratings — published 2007
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 93 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,909,247 ratings — published 2005
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
by (shelved 93 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.28 — 681,234 ratings — published 2012
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 91 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,691,041 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 90 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,833,586 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 88 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,546,272 ratings — published 1998
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.08 — 887,797 ratings — published 1922
Demian (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.14 — 137,952 ratings — published 1919
A Separate Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 3.60 — 233,491 ratings — published 1959
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 85 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,241,246 ratings — published 2000
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,248,529 ratings — published 1963
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 83 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,903,416 ratings — published 1999
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.04 — 666,208 ratings — published 2002
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,835,926 ratings — published 1993
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 3.76 — 304,269 ratings — published 1759
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,026,838 ratings — published 1876
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,607,945 ratings — published 2003
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,759,796 ratings — published 2005
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,359,195 ratings — published 2001
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 3.68 — 239,008 ratings — published 1984
I Capture the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 3.98 — 116,348 ratings — published 1948
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,482,346 ratings — published 1985
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,624,236 ratings — published 1988
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,905,361 ratings — published 2018
The Magic Mountain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 64 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.13 — 62,919 ratings — published 1924
Of Human Bondage (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.16 — 62,043 ratings — published 1915
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,770,956 ratings — published 2012
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.01 — 365,496 ratings — published 1968
Black Swan Green (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 3.98 — 44,005 ratings — published 2006
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as bildungsroman)
avg rating 4.27 — 951,840 ratings — published 2015
“I remember my pastor once said that peace in God doesn’t omit emotion; Jesus was perfect and still cried and felt anger. So peace was, that in the midst of our trials and emotions, our heads could remain above the water without drowning in it. This kind of peace could help us continue to live on through our struggles.”
― A Most Important Year
― A Most Important Year
“I went around the house to the back door thinking, I have been to a dance and a boy has walked me home and kissed me. It was all true. My life was possible.”
― Dance of the Happy Shades
― Dance of the Happy Shades












