Coming-of-age novels?

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Coming-of-age novels?

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1BookBindingBobby
Jan 5, 2008, 4:16 pm

I'm looking for some fantastic coming-of-age novels in the vein of Stephen King's The Body, Robert R. McCammon's Boy's Life, and Richard Laymon's The Travelling Vampire Show. Any help?

2SJaneDoe
Edited: Jan 5, 2008, 5:12 pm

Maybe Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes?

ETA: Have you seen the list of books tagged "coming of age"?

3fannyprice
Jan 11, 2008, 6:31 pm

I'd suggest the first two books in the Earthsea Cycle, if you are at all interested in fantasy worlds. The first, A Wizard of Earthsea, focuses on a boy, the second, The Tombs of Atuan, focuses on a girl. I preferred the second because it was more psychological and a little less repetitive, but both are great.

4HorseRider
Jan 13, 2008, 4:07 pm

I really enjoyed Nancy Farmer's The House of the Scorpion.

5MrAndrew
Jan 13, 2008, 6:32 pm

Coming of age as a:

boy: The Catcher In The Rye (why on earth doesn't that touchstone work? it's not an obscure book!)

girl: Rite of Passage

boy raised by Great Apes: Tarzan of the Apes

cockroach: the Metamorphosis and other stories

I like to cover all bases.

6imayb1
Jan 14, 2008, 9:34 pm

Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers is a great bildungsroman.