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1BookBindingBobby
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
Maybe Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes?
ETA: Have you seen the list of books tagged "coming of age"?
ETA: Have you seen the list of books tagged "coming of age"?
3fannyprice
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
I really enjoyed Nancy Farmer's The House of the Scorpion.
5MrAndrew
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.
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.

