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Description: Literary coming-of-age novels or that otherwise take on the subject of adolescence. Feel free to add to this list or vote up your recommendations.
Members: 4 participating members
ahef1963, Dilara86, dara85

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

12,484 members

468 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Dilara86, ahef1963

2

I Capture the Castle

8,783 members

284 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Dilara86, ahef1963

3

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

65,910 members

1,042 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

4

by Jeffrey Eugenides

26,271 members

613 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

5

by Sylvia Plath

26,219 members

466 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

6

25,077 members

609 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

7

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

24,560 members

373 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

8

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

21,446 members

909 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

9

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

20,130 members

201 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

10

Running with Scissors

by Augusten Burroughs

14,243 members

302 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

11

by Scott Westerfeld

13,524 members

637 reviews

3.9

Member: Dilara86

12

A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

12,129 members

184 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

13

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

10,192 members

231 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

14

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

7,011 members

224 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

15

The Wasp Factory

6,707 members

197 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

16

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

by Jeanette Winterson

5,944 members

139 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Dilara86

17

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

4,953 members

160 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

18

Le Grand Meaulnes

by Alain-Fournier

3,221 members

74 reviews

3.8

Member: Dilara86

19

Summer of My German Soldier

by Bette Greene

2,857 members

46 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

20

The Member of the Wedding

by Carson McCullers

2,709 members

61 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

21

by Gwyn Hyman Rubio

2,476 members

31 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dara85

22

The Kingdom of Gods

by N. K. Jemisin

1,235 members

72 reviews

3.9

Member: Dilara86

23

1,083 members

59 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

24

The Time of Love

by Marcel Pagnol

210 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: Dilara86

About This List

Started: sturlington
March 2014
Type: Unnumbered

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