The best coming-of-age books ever published include classics like The Outsiders, The Catcher in the Rye, and those in the Harry Potter series.

The acclaimed debut continues to earn recognition as one of the defining coming-of-age novels of the 20th century.

The bildungsroman is the coming-of-age novel; it is also the coming-to-terms novel. The protagonist, usually a young man, undergoes a series of adventures that eventually spit him out wiser, stronger, ...

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Omaha Public Library staff members recommend their favorite coming-of-age graphic novels for readers to discover powerful new ...

The experience of reading Natasha Stagg’s new, unsparing and emotionally raw coming-of-age novel, “Grand Rapids,” made me realize that I may have an overly nostalgic, too rosy view of the ...

The author will be appearing at Skylight Books in Los Angeles on Aug. 17 to discuss the book with ‘Minari’ director Lee Isaac Chung.