Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe sweeps readers back to the streets, porches, and parlors of civil rights-era Ohio to bring to life the first steps of an enduring friendship between two girls from opposite sides of the track. . . Annette Goode is a shy, awkward, overweight child...

2018 International Book Awards Winner in Fiction: General 2017 IAN Book of the Year Award for Outstanding Women’s Fiction 2017 Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal for New Adult Fiction 2017 NYC Big Book Awards Winner for Women’s Fiction 2017 National Indie Excellence Book Awards Winner: Contemporary...

Saul Indian Horse is a child when his family retreats into the woods. Among the lakes and the cedars, they attempt to reconnect with half-forgotten traditions and hide from the authorities who have been kidnapping Ojibway youth. But when winter approaches, Saul loses everything: his brother, his parents,...

These stories by Louis Phillips reinforce his reputation throughout his dozens of books of being imaginative, incisive, and entertaining. The voice here is that of a young man who is learning about life and about work. Phillips captures these formative years brilliantly, creating a coming-of-age collection of stories that will take you back to your own youth.

Of all the early boomers coming of age in sooty 1950s Pittsburgh, whose reverence was greater for Jimmy Doolittle and the 1950 Studebaker than that of Martin Badger? But whose bodily parts more rebellious? Whose 8th grade peers more annoying? Whose accordion more out of tune? Misdeeds more delinquent? Romances more blundered? Whose long odds worse--I mean, apart from Russo?

**"I loved this book and can't stop talking about it. . . . Transcendent." —Carolyn See, The Washington Post ** In the tradition of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Wang Gang's English is a captivating coming-of-age novel about the power of language to launch a journey...

Outside Providence is a hilarious yet melancholy novel of a young man's coming of age in the 1970s. When Timothy Dunphy, native of working-class Pawtucket, Rhode Island, is packed off to a fancy prep school, he finds that the privileged elite is hardly immune to life's screwups. Dunphy must reconcile...

Part 1: Rickshaws & Robotic Talons Classification: Surrealist, Dark Comedy, Symbolic Synopsis: 100 precisely nonsensical short stories speckled with punchy dark humor and "random" details creating a surreal but meaningful message. Part 2: Minka & Linka Classification: Tragedy,...

Inspired by Martin Amis and Zadie Smith, Ben Masters bursts on the literary scene with his lively and erudite debut novel about a college graduate on the cusp of adulthood. Eliot Lamb has had countless nights like this before. He's out with his mates, pint in hand, shots at the ready.  They're...

A rollicking coming-of-age comedy set in 1970s New Jersey, from a multiple award–nominated author.   In this hilarious and biting novel, seventeen-year-old Frank Grimaldi wants one thing more than anything else—to have sex before he graduates. Too bad his crazy teachers, his insane parents, the...

Throughout the weekend of his brother’s funeral, a young man reflects on life. Torment is a crashing wave of emotion. Hunter explores the dynamics of growing up as a poor minority in a small town, facing mental health conditions that most communities would rather not name, even if they could. The...

The Expressionist is a fictional tale that centres on the development of a young Australian boy, Albert Dennis Braun, living  in rural and regional NSW, and his coming of age into a realm of artistic and creative tendencies. The story involves loss and sadness, as well as physical, spiritual and...

Author Gregory Spatz is distantly related to Sir John Franklin, who was his great-grandmother's uncle. He was also inspired by the traditional 1800s ballad “Lady Franklin’s Dream” which Spatz recorded as a duet with his wife on his solo CD and again on the first Mighty Squirrel CD. The...

The bestselling coming-of-age classic, acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world from the winner of the 2018 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. The House on Mango Street is the...