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Coming-of-Age

Authors & Titles

• Adam, Christina: Love and Country
  
• Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
  
• Alther, Lisa: Kinflicks
  
• Ammaniti, Niccolò: I'm Not Scared
  
• Appelfeld, Aharon: All Whom I Have Loved
  
• Appleton, Janet: That Summer
  
• Ashworth, Andrea: Once in a House on Fire (England, contemporary [1990s])
  
• Askari, Brent: Not Ready for Prime Time
  
• Babcock, Joe: The Boys and the Bees
  
• Baldacci, David: Wish You Well
  
• Ballard, J.G.: Empire of the Sun
  NOTE: a sequel was published in 1992: The Kindness of Women
  
• Bardi, Abby: The Book of Fred
  
• Barkdull, Larry: Cold Train Coming
  
• Barkdull, Larry: The Mourning Dove
  
• Barry, Lynda: Cruddy
  
• Basu, Jay: The Stars Can Wait
  
• Bathurst, Bella: Special
  
• Bausch, Richard: Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. America, and All the Ships At Sea
  
• Bellows, Nathaniel: On This Day
  
• Bialosky, Jill: House Under Snow
  
• Bird, Sarah: The Flamenco Academy
  
• Bird, Sarah: The Yokota Officers Club
  
• Black, Jim: River Season
  
• Blau, Jessica Anya: The Summer of Naked Swim Parties
  
• Boren, Karen Lee: Girls in Peril
  
• Borofka, David: The Island
  
• Bouraoui, Nina: Tomboy
  
• Bowen, Elizabeth: The Last September
  
• Boyden, Amanda: Pretty Little Dirty
  
• Braff, Joshua: The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green
  
• Brewer, Sonny: A Sound Like Thunder
  
• Broder, Bill: Taking Care of Cleo
  
• Brook, Rhidian: The Testimony of Taliesin Jones
  
• Brown, Carrie: The Rope Walk
  
• Brown, Joe David: Paper Moon
  
• Browner, Jesse: Everything Happens Today
  
• Burchill, Julie: Sugar Rush
  
• Burgess, Melvin: Doing It
  
• Burks, Cris: Neecey's Lullaby
  
• Burton, Rainelle: The Root Worker
  
• Bynum, Sarah Shun-Lien: Madeleine is Sleeping
  
• Cadre, Adam: Ready, Okay!
  
• Caldwell, V.M.: Runt
  
• Carter, Betsy: Swim to Me
  
• Carter, Vincent O.: Such Sweet Thunder
  
• Cauley, Harry: Millersburg
  
• Charles, Bryan: Grab On to Me Tightly As If I Knew The Way
  
• Chen, Ran: A Private Life
  
• Childress, Mark: Crazy in Alabama
  
• Childress, Mark: One Mississippi
  
• Chong, Kevin: Baroque-A-Nova
  
• Chorão, Ian: Bruiser
  
• Chun, Sue: Beijing Doll
  
• Clair, Maxine: October Suite
  
• Clarke, Brock: The Ordinary White Boy
  
• Clauser, Suzanne: A Girl Named Sooner
  
• Coe, Jonathan: Rotter's Club
  (NOTE: This title is part of the Rotter's Club series, listed under Satire)
  
• Cofer, Judith Ortiz: The Meaning of Consuelo
  
• Cohen, Leah Hager: Heat Lightning
  
• Cook, K.L.: The Girl From Charnelle
  
• Courtenay, Bryce: The Power of One
  
• Craze, Galaxy: May series
  
  1. By the Shore
     
  2. Tiger, Tiger
     
• Cronin, A.J.: A Song of Sixpence
  
• Cullin, Mitch: Whompyjawed
  
• Cunningham, M. Allen: The Green Age of Asher Witherow
  
• Daniels, N. Frank: Futureproof
  
• Davis, Amanda: Wonder When You'll Miss Me
  
• Davis, Bridgett M.: Shifting Through Neutral
  
• Day, Angie: The Way to Somewhere
  
• Deane, Seamus: Reading in the Dark
  
• Dierbeck, Lisa: One Pill Makes You Smaller
  
• Di Filippo, Paul: Roadside Bodhisattva
  
• Dolby, Tom: The Sixth Form
  
• Donner, Rebecca: Sunset Terrace
  
• Donoghue, Emma: Stir-Fry
  
• Doster, Stephen: Lord Baltimore
  
• Duchovny, Avram: Coney
  
• Duffy, Bruce: Last Comes the Egg
  
• Dunthorne, Joe: Submarine
  
• Durkee, Lee: Rides of the Midway
  
• Earley, Tony: Jim Glass series
  
  1. Jim the Boy
     
  2. The Blue Star
     
• Eidus, Janice: The War of the Rosens
  
• Eppes, Cindy: South of Reason
  
• Eprile, Tony: The Persistence of Memory
  
• Ferguson, Drew: The Screwed Up Life of Charlie the Second
  
• Ferrell, Monica: The Answer is Always Yes
  
• Fischer, Jackie Moyer: An Egg on Three Sticks
  
• Fletcher, Susan: Eve Green
  
• Foley, Mick: Tietam Brown
  
• Ford, Darnella: Finding Me
  
• Francis, Brian: Fruit
  
• Freda, Joseph: The Patience of Rivers
  
• Freedman, J.F.: The Obstacle Course
  
• Freud, Esther: Love Falls
  
• Fuerst, James W.: Huge
  
• Fuqua, Jonathon Scott: Gone and Back Again
  
• Fuqua, Jonathon Scott: The Reappearance of Sam Webber
  
• Fusco, John: Paradise Salvage
  
• Garigliano, Jeff: Dogface
  
• Gatewood, Robert: The Sound of the Trees
  
• Gearino, G.D.: Blue Hole
  
• Gibb, Camilla: Mouthing the Words
  
• Gilchrist, Ellen: Net of Jewels
  
• Glancy, Diane: Flutie
  
• Godden, Rumer: Pippa Passes
  
• Godden, Rumer: Thursday's Child
  
• Godfrey, Rebecca: The Torn Skirt
  
• Goldberg, Natalie: Banana Rose
  
• Goodman, Eric: Child of My Right Hand
  
• Gordon, Jacquie: Flanders Point
  
• Gottlieb, Eli: The Boy Who Went Away
  
• Greenlaw, Lavinia: Mary George of Allnorthover
  
• Greenway, Alice: White Ghost Girls
  
• Guene, Faiza: Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow
  
• Gunn, James: The Toy Collector
  
• Gunn, Kirsty: Rain
  
• Gunn, Neil: Morning Tide
  
• Haines, Carolyn: Summer of the Redeemers
  
• Handler, Daniel: The Basic Eight (High School, 1990s)
  
• Harfenist, Jean: A Brief History of the Flood
  
• Harper, Rachel M.: Brass Ankle Blues
  
• Harris, Fred: Following the Harvest
  
• Hart, Lenore: Waterwoman
  
• Hawke, Ethan: The Hottest State
  
• Hays, Tommy: In the Family Way (South Carolina, 1960s)
  
• Hedges, Peter: An Ocean in Iowa
  
• Hegi, Ursula: Sacred Time
  
• Helms, Beth: Dervishes
  
• Hepinstall, Kathy: The Absence of Nectar
  
• Hermann, Nellie: The Cure for Grief
  
• Hesse, Herman: Demian
  
• Hill, Mars: The Moaner's Bench
  
• Hollingsworth, A.B.: Chipper DeHart series
  
  1. Flatbellies
     
  2. University Boulevard
     
• Hornbacher, Marya: The Center of Winter
  
• Hornburg, Michael: Downer's Grove
  
• Huffey, Rhoda: The Hallelujah Side
  
• Huston, Charlie: The Shotgun Rule
  
• Hyland, M.J.: Carry Me Down
  
• Hyland, M.J.: How the Light Gets In
  
• Inman, Robert: Dairy Queen Days
  
• Jackson, Jeremy: In Summer
  
• Jarrar, Randa: A Map of Home
  
• Jenkins, Emily: Mister Posterior and the Genius Child
  
• Johnson, Dedra: Sandrine's Letter to Tomorrow
  
• Johnson, Wayne: The Devil You Know
  
• Johnston, Wayne: The Divine Ryans
  
• Johnston, Wayne: Human Amusements
  
• Jong-Fast, Molly: Normal Girl
  
• Joyce, Graham: The Facts of Life
  
• Kalpakian, Laura: Educating Waverly
  
• Kaplow, Robert: Me and Orson Welles
  
• Keegan, Nicola: Swimming
  
• Kenry, Chris: Uncle Max
  
• Kersh, Jack: Hotel Sarajevo
  
• Khedairi, Betool: A Sky So Close
  
• Kidd, Chip: Happy series
  
  1. The Cheese Monkeys
     
  2. The Learners
     
• Kimmel, Haven: Something Rising (Light and Swift)
  
• Kincaid, Jamaica: Annie John
  
• Kincaid, Jamaica: Lucy
  
• King, Lily: The Pleasing Hour
  
• King, Stephen: novella "The Body" in his collection Different Seasons
  
• King, Tabitha: One on One
  
• Kirshenbaum, Binnie: An Almost Perfect Moment
  
• Klein, Rachel: The Moth Diaries
  
• Kowalski, William: The Adventures of Flash Jackson
  
• Kowalski, William: Eddie's Bastard
  
• Kramon, Justin: Finny
  
• Lalwani, Nikita: Gifted
  
• Lamb, Wally: She's Come Undone
  
• Lazar, Zachary: Aaron, Approximately
  
• LaZebnik, Claire Scovell: Same As It Never Was
  
• Lefcourt, Peter: Eleven Karens
  
• Lerner, Lisa: Just Like Beauty
  
• Lessing, Doris: Ben Lovatt series
  
  1. The Fifth Child
     
  2. Ben, in the World
     
• lê thi diem thúy: The Gangster We Are All Looking For
  
• Levy, B.S.: Last Open Road series (aka Buddy Palumbo series)
  
  1. The Last Open Road
     
  2. Montezuma's Ferrari
     
  3. The Fabulous Trashwagon
     
• Leyner, Mark: The Tetherballs of Bougainville
  
• Lott, Bret: The Hunt CLub
  
• Ludington, Max: Tiger in a Trance
  
• Lukas, Susan: Fat Emily
  
• Luna, Louisa: Brave New Girl
  
• MacDonald, Ann-Marie: The Way the Crow Flies
  
• MacLaverty, Bernard: The Anatomy School
  
• MacLeod, Alistair: No Great Mischief
  
• Magruder, James: Sugarless
  
• Makine, Andrei: Dreams of My Russian Summers
  
• Malloy, Brian: The Year of Ice
  
• Mantel, Hilary: An Experiment in Love
  
• Martinez, Manuel Luis: Drift
  
• Mathews, Lou: L.A. Breakdown
  
• May, Jesse: Shut Up and Deal
  
• McBride, Shawn: Green Grass Grace
  
• McCabe, Patrick: The Butcher Boy
  
• McCafferty, Megan: Jessica Darling series
  
  1. Sloppy Firsts
     
  2. Second Helpings
     
  3. Charmed Thirds
     
  4. Fourth Comings
     
  5. Perfect Fifths
     
• McCandless, Sarah Grace: The Girl I Wanted To Be
  
• McCandless, Sarah Grace: Grosse Pointe Girl
  
• McLain, Paula: A Ticket to Ride
  
• McComas, Paul: Planet of the Dates
  
• McCorkle, Jill: The Cheer Leader
  
• McDermott, Alice: Child of My Heart
  
• McDonell, Nick: Twelve
  
• McFarland, Dennis: Prince Edward
  
• McNally, John: The Book of Ralph
  
• McNeil, Jean: Hunting Down Home
  
• McNicholl, Damian: A Son Called Gabriel
  
• Meallet, Sandro: Edgewater Angels
  
• Melville, Herman: Redburn
  
• Mendelsohn, Jane: Innocence
  
• Meno, Joe: Hairstyles of the Damned
  
• Merrick, Elizabeth: Girly
  
• Merullo, Roland: The Talk-Funny Girl
  
• Miller, Heather Ross: Champeen
  
• Miller, Karen E. Quinones: Using What You Got
  
• Minot, Eliza: The Tiny One
  
• Minot, Susan: Monkeys
  
• Mitcham, Judson: Sabbath Creek
  
• Mitchell, David: Black Swan Green
  
• Mitchell, David: Number9Dream
  
• Monroe, Mary: God Don't Like Ugly
  (NOTE: This title is part of the Annette Goode & Rhoda Nelson series, listed under Sistahs)
  
• Moore, Michael Scott: Too Much of Nothing
  
• Moore, Susanna: The Whiteness of Bones
  
• Moriarty, Jaclyn: Feeling Sorry for Celia
  
• Morris, Michael: Slow Way Home
  
• Mosby, Katherine: The Season of Lillian Dawes
  
• Mosher, Howard Frank: Waiting for Teddy Williams
  
• Murphy, Peter: John the Revelator
  
• Murray, Paul: Skippy Dies
  
• Nelson, Lisa: Playing Botticelli
  
• Nicholls, David: A Question of Attraction
  
• Nicholson, Joy: The Tribes of Palos Verdes
  
• Niemi, Mikael: Popular Music from Vittula
  
• Nolan, Han: Born Blue
  
• Norman, Howard: The Bird Artist
  
• O'Dell, Tawni: Back Roads
  
• Odhiambo, David: Kipligat's Chance
  
• O'Neill, Heather: Lullabies for Little Criminals
  
• Paul, Jasmine: A Girl, in Parts
  
• Peacock, Nancy: Life Without Water (North Carolina, 1960s)
  
• Peck, Dale: What We Lost
  
• Peck, Robert Newton: A Day No Pigs Would Die (Vermont Shakers, contemporary [1970s])
  
• Pedersen, Laura: Hallie Palmer series
  
  1. Beginner's Luck
     
  2. Heart's Desire
     
• Perrotta, Tom: The Wishbones (New Jersey, 1970s)
  
• Peterson, Ray: Cowkind (1960s)
  
• Phillips, Jayne Anne: Lark and Termite
  
• Phillips, Jayne Anne: Shelter
  
• Phillips, Max: Snakebite Sonnet
  
• Picoult, Jodi: My Sister's Keeper
  
• Pierson, DC: The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To
  
• Pietrzyk, Leslie: A Year and A Day
  
• Poirier, Mark Jude: Modern Ranch Living
  
• Pope, Dan: In the Cherry Tree
  
• Porter, Connie: Imani All Mine
  
• Portes, Andrea: Hick
  
• Quindlen, Anna: Object Lessons
  
• Raleigh, Michael: In the Castle of the Flynns
  
• Ran Chen: A Private Life
  
• Raucher, Herman: Summer of '42
  
• Reed, Terry: The Full Cleveland
  
• Reid, Nicole Louise: In the Breeze of Passing Things
  
• Reidy, Sue: The Visitation
  
• Reiken, Frederick: Rubin Family series
  
  1. The Odd Sea
     
  2. The Lost Legends of New Jersey
     
• Reynald, Lance: Pop Salvation
  
• Reynolds, Clay: Monuments
  
• Reynolds, Sheri: The Sweet In-Between
  
• Riggs, Jack: When the Finch Rises
  
• Rinaldi, Ann: The Last Silk Dress
  
• Rivers, Caryl: Virgins
  
• Roberts, Karen: The Flower Boy
  
• Robinson, C. Kelly: Between Brothers
  
• Robinson, Marilynne: Housekeeping
  
• Roers, Walter J.: The Pact
  
• Roesch, Mattox: Sometimes We're Always Real Same-Same
  
• Rose, Joanna: Little Miss Strange
  
• Rosenfeld, Stephanie: Massachusetts, California, Timbuktu
  
• Rosoff, Meg: What I Was
  
• Roth, Philip: Indignation
  
• Roth, Philip: Portnoy's Complaint
  
• Rubio, Gwyn Hyman: Icy Sparks
  
• Salzman, Mark: The Laughing Sutra
  
• Sanchez, Alex: Rainbow Boys
  
• Santana, Patricia: Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility
  
• Saterstrom, Selah: The Meat and Spirit Plan
  
• Satyal, Rakesh: Blue Boy
  
• Searles, John: Boy Still Missing
  
• Shapiro, Anna: Living on Air
  
• Shepard, Jim: Project X
  
• Shimko, Bonnie: Letters in the Attic
  
• Shrake, Bud: Billy Boy
  
• Siddons, Anne Rivers: Downtown
  
• Siddons, Anne Rivers: Sweetwater Creek
  
• Silver, Marisa: The God of War
  
• Silvers, Ester Katz: Sondra's Search
  
• Simmons, Charles: Salt Water
  
• Singleton, George: Why Dogs Chase Cars
  
• Sittenfeld, Curtis: The Man of My Dreams
  
• Sittenfeld, Curtis: Prep
  
• Skyler, Heather: The Perfect Age
  
• Sloan, Kay: The Patron Saint of Red Chevys
  
• Smith, Danyel: More Like Wrestling
  
• Smith, Dodie: I Capture the Castle
  
• Spanbauer, Tom: Now is the Hour
  
• Spatz, Gregory: No One But Us
  
• Spence, Alan: Way to Go
  
• Spitz, Marc: How Soon is Never?
  
• Stuart, Sebastian: The Hour Between
  
• Sullivan, Mary: Ship Sooner
  
• Swann, Maxine: Serious Girls
  
• Tanney, Katherine: Carousel of Progress
  
• Taylor, Julie: Franco American Dreams
  
• TeBordo, Christian: We Go Liquid
  
• Thayer, Cynthia: Strong for Potatoes
  
• Thompson, Julian F.: Terry and the Pirates
  
• Toews, Miriam: A Complicated Kindness
  
• Towler, Katherine: Snow Island
  
• Tremain, Rose: The Way I Found Her
  
• Trevor, William: The Story of Lucy Gault
  
• Troyan, Sasha: Angels in the Morning
  
• Tyau, Kathleen: A Little Too Much Is Enough
  
• Tyler, Sandra: Blue Glass
  
• Udall, Brady: The Miracle LIfe of Edgar Mint
  
• Voigt, Cynthia: Tillerman series
  
  1. Homecoming
     
  2. Dicey's Song
     
  3. A Solitary Blue
     
  4. The Runner
     
  5. Come a Stranger
     
  6. Sons From Afar
     
  7. Seventeen Against the Dealer
     
• Wagner, Bruce: I'll Let You Go
  
• Warner, Sally: Finding Hattie
  
• Watson, Larry: Laura
  
• Watson, Larry: Montana 1948
  
• Watson, Sterling: Sweet Dream Baby
  
• Weisberg, Joseph: 10th Grade
  
• Weld, William F.: Stillwater
  
• Wesley, Mary: Part of the Furniture
  
• Whiteford, Mary: If Wishes Were Horses
  
• Whitehead, Colson: Sag Harbor
  
• Whitehouse, Lucie: The House at Midnight
  
• Wildgen, Michelle: You're Not You
  
• Wieringa, Tommy: Joe Speedboat
  
• Williamson, Debrah: Singing With the Top Down
  
• Williamson, Eric Miles: East Bay Grease
  
• Willis, Sarah: Some Things That Stay
  
• Wilson, Cintra: Colors Insulting to Nature
  
• Witt, Martha: Broken As Things Are
  
• Wittenborn, Dirk: Fierce People
  
• Wolff, Tobias: Old School
  
• WoodBrown, V. Diane: Halfborn Woman
  
• Woodson, Jacqueline: Autobiography of a Family Photo
  
• Woolf, Virginia: Jacob's Room
  
• Wouk, Herman: Marjorie Morningstar
  
• Wroblewski, David: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
  
• Youngblood, Shay: Black Girl in Paris