Recommendations for good coming of age books
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| With summer coming around the corner, I would love so recommendations for some fun coming of age stories: think Secret life of bees or How to make an American quilt. TIA! |
Anonymous
| I don't know that this fits the bill fully, but I love She's Come Undone |
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| Anyone else? |
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| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The Member of the Wedding I Capture the Castle |
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Reading a very good one right now.
“The Elissas” The Adults Books by Anya Blau Prep |
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Tell the Wolves I'm Home
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell The Heart's Invisible Furies Demon Copperhead Rabbit Cake Sing, Unburied, Sing The Last Summer on State Street |
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Anything by Judy Blume counts. I quite liked Tiger Eyes, though by modern standards, it is a bit slow.
The Go-Between by L.P Hartley is a classic and heart-breaking coming of age book (also a film in the 70s with Julie Christie). And a bunch of recent YA books like All The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas |
Anonymous
Love “I Capture the Castle” - one of my favorites. I also recommend A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and a book called “Gloria.” It came out in the late 90s, about a young woman in 1950s society circles. It’s super under the radar, but excellent! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/335099.Gloria Also, Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld. |
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| Sam by Allegra Goodman |
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Age of Miracles, by Karen Thompson Walker -
I loved this book! It's a coming of age story told within an original setting (the slowing of the Earth's rotation and possible end of the world). Juxtoposes the normal/typical with the truly extraordinary. Stuck with me long after I finished it. |
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About a Boy by Nick Hornby
Black Ice by Lorene Cary The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros White Teeth by Zadie Smith |
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| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
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| The center of everything |
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The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing
The Idiot |