Coming of age books
Books about growing up: the years when a young person finds out who they are and what the world expects of them. Trevor Noah's Born a Crime recalls a childhood in apartheid South Africa, Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead follows a boy through foster care and addiction, and Patrick Rothfuss's The Name of the Wind tells Kvothe's youth. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix captures a teenager's anger.
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- 1Born a Crime
8.98.9 / 10 - 2The Name of the Wind
8.98.9 / 10 - 3Demon Copperhead
8.88.8 / 10 - 4Gender Queer
8.68.6 / 10 - 5Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
8.68.6 / 10 - 6The Poet X
8.58.5 / 10 - 7All the Light We Cannot See
8.58.5 / 10 - 8Shuggie Bain
8.58.5 / 10 - 9Roller Girl
8.58.5 / 10 - 10Persepolis
8.48.4 / 10 - 11To Kill a Mockingbird
8.48.4 / 10 - 12The Graveyard Book
8.48.4 / 10 - 13Anne of Green Gables
8.48.4 / 10 - 14Young Mungo
8.48.4 / 10 - 15Smile
8.48.4 / 10 - 16The Diamond Age
8.38.3 / 10 - 17Lirael
8.38.3 / 10 - 18The Great Alone
8.38.3 / 10 - 19My Friends
8.38.3 / 10 - 20I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
8.38.3 / 10 - 21The Hunger Games
8.38.3 / 10 - 22Scythe
8.38.3 / 10 - 23Stitches
8.38.3 / 10 - 24All the Pretty Horses
8.38.3 / 10 - 25The Power of One
8.38.3 / 10 - 26Mort
8.38.3 / 10 - 27Assassin's Apprentice
8.38.3 / 10 - 28Diary of Anne Frank
8.38.3 / 10 - 29The Lightning Thief
8.28.2 / 10 - 30Unsouled
8.08.0 / 10