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52 Best Coming of Age Books of All Time


Our goal: Find the best Coming of Age books according to the internet (not just one random person's opinion).

    Here's what we did:
  1. Type "best coming of age books" into our search engine and study the top 5+ pages.
  2. Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
  3. Rank the results neatly for you here! 😊
    (It was a lot of work. But hey! That's why we're here, right?)

(Updated 2024)

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Last Updated: Monday 1 Jan, 2024

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  1. 1
    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  2. MOST RECOMMENDED!
    2
    The Catcher in the Rye
  3. 3
    The Kite Runner

    The Kite Runner

    Khaled Hosseini

  4. 4
    Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    Charlotte Bronte

  5. 5
    The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  6. 6
    Great Expectations

    Great Expectations

    Charles Dickens

  7. 7
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  8. 8
    Purple Hibiscus

    Purple Hibiscus

    A Novel

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  9. 9
    Middlesex

    Middlesex

    A Novel

    Jeffrey Eugenides

  10. 10
    The House on Mango Street
  11. 11
    To Kill a Mockingbird
  12. 12
    The Hate U Give
  13. 13
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
  14. 14
    Call Me by Your Name
  15. 15
    The Goldfinch
  16. 16
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  17. 17
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  18. 18
    The Book Thief

    The Book Thief

    Markus Zusak

  19. 19
    Never Let Me Go

    Never Let Me Go

    Kazuo Ishiguro

  20. 20
    Atonement
  21. 21
    Sing, Unburied, Sing
  22. 22
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
  23. 23
    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
  24. 24
    The Poet X

    The Poet X

    Elizabeth Acevedo

  25. 25
    Silver Sparrow

    Silver Sparrow

    Tayari Jones

  26. 26
    Sag Harbor

    Sag Harbor

    A Novel

    Colson Whitehead

  27. 27
    My Brilliant Friend
  28. 29
    Song of Solomon

    Song of Solomon

    Toni Morrison

  29. 30
    Little Women
  30. 31
    Invisible Man

    Invisible Man

    Ralph Ellison

  31. 32
    Infinite Jest

    Infinite Jest

    A Novel

    David Foster Wallace

  32. 33
    The Secret History
  33. 34
    The Bell Jar
  34. 35
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
  35. 36
    The Glass Castle
  36. 37
    On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
  37. 38
    The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  38. 39
    The Virgin Suicides

    The Virgin Suicides

    Jeffrey Eugenides

  39. 40
    A Separate Peace

    A Separate Peace

    John Knowles

  40. 41
    White Teeth
  41. 42
    Black Swan Green

    Black Swan Green

    David Mitchell

  42. 43
    My Year of Rest and Relaxation
  43. 44
    The Great Alone
  44. 45
    The Outsiders

    The Outsiders

    S. E. Hinton

  45. 46
    Looking for Alaska
  46. 47
    Tipping the Velvet
  47. 48
    The Last Illusion

    The Last Illusion

    A Novel

    Porochista Khakpour

  48. 49
    Submarine

    Submarine

    A Novel

    Joe Dunthorne

  49. 50
    Red at the Bone

    Red at the Bone

    A Novel

    Jacqueline Woodson

  50. 51
    My Education
  51. 52
    Breaking the Tongue
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