Coming Of Age
Growing up is an experience that is at once personal and universal. Browse through these books to read about that special coming of age period in everyone’s lives. Who knows, you might just lose and find yourself in some of these titles!
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Horse
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New York Four
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Worlds collide when four young women begin college at the prestigious New York University. Shy, literate Riley, overachieving but naive Lona, laid-back West Coaster Ren, and working-class girl Merissa claim newfound freedom living in the big city. But that freedom comes at a price: roommate drama, mysterious love interests, school troubles, and family conflicts. Welcome to adulthood!New York Four is a smart, charming, and stunningly rendered page-turner from the New York Times best-selling duo Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly. This edition collects the entire series under one cover for the first time.
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It is September 1995. Selin, a Turkish-American college freshman from New Jersey, is about to embark on her first year at Harvard University, where she is determined to decipher the mysteries of language and to become a writer.In between studying psycholinguistics and the philosophy of language, teaching ESL to a Costa Rican plumber, and befriending her classmate Svetlana (a Serbian refugee from Connecticut), Selin falls in love with a Hungarian maths student in her Russian class. She spends the summer in the Hungarian countryside teaching English to village children, where sad and comic misunderstandings ensue.Full of the razor-sharp evocations of character and place that have long delighted readers of Batuman’s non-fiction, The Idiot tackles literary ambition, female friendship, the American dream, Chomskian linguistics, the Russian novel and romantic love. ‘There is hardly a single action we perform in that phase which we would not give anything, in later life, to be able to annul,’ Proust once wrote, ‘but adolescence is the only period in which we learn anything.’
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John Irving
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Bloomsbury
A Prayer for Owen Meany : 21 Great Bloomsbury Reads for the 21st Century
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Carson McCullers
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" might resonate deeply with you if you've ever felt disconnected or out of step with the world around you. Carson McCullers vividly portrays the internal landscapes of her characters, showcasing their yearnings for connection, their struggles with isolation, and their search for beauty in a world that often seems indifferent. Her young protagonist, Mick Kelly, and the assorted townsfolk reveal the human condition through their interactions with the deaf-mute John Singer, creating a tapestry of emotional depth that is both poignant and timeless.
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Roddy Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel describes the world of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin. From fun and adventure on the streets, boredom in the classroom to increasing isolation at home, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha is the story of a boy who sees everything but understands less and less.
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Wioletta Greg, Eliza Marciniak, Wioletta Grzegorzewska |
Portobello
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Swallowing Mercury
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Wiola lives in a close-knit agricultural community. Wiola has a black cat called Blackie. Wiola's father was a deserter but now he is a taxidermist. Wiola's mother tells her that killing spiders brings on storms. Wiola must never enter the seamstress's 'secret' room. Wiola collects matchbox labels. Wiola is a good Catholic girl brought up with fables and nurtured on superstition. Wiola lives in a Poland that is both very recent and lost in time.Swallowing Mercury is about the ordinary passing of years filled with extraordinary days. In vivid prose filled with texture, colour and sound, it describes the adult world encroaching on the child's. From childhood to adolescence, Wiola dances to the strange music of her own imagination.
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William Maxwell
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Vintage
So Long, See You Tomorrow
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In this magically evocative novel, William Maxwell explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time we try. On a winter morning in the 1920s, a shot rings out on a farm in rural Illinois. A man named Lloyd Wilson has been killed. And the tenuous friendship between two lonely teenagers—one privileged yet neglected, the other a troubled farm boy—has been shattered. Fifty years later, one of those boys—now a grown man—tries to reconstruct the events that led up to the murder. In doing so, he is inevitably drawn back to his lost friend Cletus, who has the misfortune of being the son of Wilson's killer and who in the months before witnessed things that Maxwell's narrator can only guess at. Out of memory and imagination, the surmises of children and the destructive passions of their parents, Maxwell creates a luminous American classic of youth and loss.
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"The Virgin Suicides" is not just a read; it's an experience that lingers. The story captures the perplexing tragedy of the Lisbon sisters with a striking blend of dark humor and poignant emotion. Eugenides crafts a dreamlike narrative from the perspective of awestruck neighborhood boys, making it resonate with anyone who's ever witnessed mystery and beauty woven into the fabric of everyday life. This book promises to leave a profound impression on its readers, enchanting them with its lyrical prose and aching nostalgia.
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Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, and artist, and woman - but above all she must seek release from her haunting memories. Disturbing, hilarious, and compassionate, Cat's Eye, is a breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knots of her life.
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Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys’ choir. But when Fee learns how the director treats his section leaders, he is so ashamed he says nothing of the abuse, not even when Peter, his best friend, is in line to be next. When the director is arrested, Fee tries to forgive himself for his silence. But when Peter takes his own life, Fee blames only himself. In the years that follow he slowly builds a new life, teaching near his hometown. There he meets a young student who is the picture of Peter and is forced to confront the past he believed was gone. Told with “the force of a dream and the heft of a life,”* Edinburgh marked Chee “as a major talent whose career will bear watching” (Publishers Weekly). “A coming-of-age tale in the grand Romantic tradition, where passions run high, Cupid stalks Psyche, and love shares the dance floor with death . . . A lovely, nuanced, never predictable portrait of a creative soul in the throes of becoming.” —Washington PostA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year Winner of the James Michener/Copernicus Society Fellowship Prize Lambda Literary Foundation Editor’s Choice Award “[Chee] says volumes with just a few incendiary words.” —New York Times “Arresting . . . profound and poetic . . . Chee’s voice is worth listening to.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Alexander Chee gets my vote for the best new novelist I’ve read in some time. Edinburgh is moody, dramatic—and pure.” —Edmund White
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J.M. Coetzee
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Vintage
Boyhood : Scenes from provincial life
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In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write about his childhood and interior life. Boyhood's young narrator grew up in a small country town. With a father he imitated but could not respect, and a mother he both adored and resented, he picked his way through a world that refused to explain its rules, but whose rules he knew he must obey. Steering between these contradictions, Boyhood evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood with startling, haunting immediacy. Coetzee examines his young self with the dispassionate curiosity of an explorer rediscovering his own early footprints, and the account of his progress is bright, hard and simply compelling."As funny, cruel and terrifying as life itself. It is also intense and elegant, clearly the product of the complex, subtle imagination which shapes Coetzee's outstanding fiction-As austerely beautiful as would be expected of Coetzee the artist-its aloof, edgy grace and seething passion ensure the narrative is both truthful and mysterious". Irish Times
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A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone set on a glacial lake, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck, and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. It is a town "chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere." Ruth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience.
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Donna Tartt
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The Goldfinch
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You'll find "The Goldfinch" to be like an intricate tapestry, weaving together threads of deep emotion, art, and the meandering journey of a boy through adolescence into adulthood. As you delve into Theo's life, you might be moved by the raw depiction of his struggle with grief and isolation, and captivated by the beauty and darkness that the art world can conceal. Tartt's storytelling here is breathtaking, connecting with readers who appreciate depth and complexity.
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Per Petterson
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Vintage
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Out Stealing Horses
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Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.In 1948, fifteen-year-old Trond spends a summer in the country with his father. The unexpected events that come to pass alter his life forever.An early morning adventure out stealing horses leaves Trond confused when his friend Jon suffers a sudden breakdown. Behind this scene, he will discover, lies a personal tragedy: the first incident in the gradual destruction of the two boys' families.As an old man, living in an isolated part of Norway, Trond chances upon a character from that fateful summer who stirs up painful memories and forces him to look back at his past.Out Stealing Horses is a poignant and moving tale of a changing perspective on the world, from youthful innocence to the difficult acceptance of betrayal, and of nostalgia for a simpler way of life.Per Petterson, defeated eight finalists, including Julian Barnes, J.M. Coetzee, Salman Rushdie and Cormac McCarthy to win the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for Out Stealing Horses.
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Jamaica Kincaid
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Farrar,
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Lucy
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Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to America to work as an au pair for a wealthy couple. She begins to notice cracks in their beautiful façade at the same time that the mysteries of own sexuality begin to unravel. Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new heroine who is destined to win a place of honor in contemporary fiction.
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Stephen Kelman
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Houghton
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Harcourt
Pigeon English
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Lying in front of Harrison Opoku is a body, the body of one of his classmates, a boy known for his crazy basketball skills, who seems to have been murdered for his dinner.Armed with a pair of camouflage binoculars and detective techniques absorbed from television shows like CSI, Harri and his best friend, Dean, plot to bring the perpetrator to justice. They gather evidence—fingerprints lifted from windows with tape, a wallet stained with blood—and lay traps to flush out the murderer. But nothing can prepare them for what happens when a criminal feels you closing in on him. Recently emigrated from Ghana with his sister and mother to London’s enormous housing projects, Harri is pure curiosity and ebullience—obsessed with gummy candy, a friend to the pigeon who visits his balcony, quite possibly the fastest runner in his school, and clearly also fast on the trail of a murderer. Told in Harri's infectious voice and multicultural slang, Pigeon English follows in the tradition of our great novels of friendship and adventure, as Harri finds wonder, mystery, and danger in his new, ever-expanding world.
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Eleanor Catton
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Granta
The Rehearsal
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The Rehearsal could be a good read for individuals interested in exploring the complexities of teenage desire and the blurring of boundaries between public and private world. The novel combines both evocative and shrewd writing to create a story that stays with the reader even after finishing. The exploration of how public perception and performance affect personal relationships is a unique and thought-provoking feature that makes The Rehearsal worth reading.
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Jeffrey Eugenides
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Bloomsbury
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The Virgin Suicides
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"The Virgin Suicides" is a poignant narrative, capturing the tragic beauty of youth and loss. It invites you into the surreal suburban world of the Lisbon girls through the infatuated lens of local boys. Eugenides' prose is haunting and atmospheric, striking a chord with anyone who's experienced the bewildering, rose-tinted haze of adolescence. This book is sure to resonate with readers who appreciate darkly poetic storytelling and the complexities of growing up.
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Pat Conroy
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Dial
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The Great Santini
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This book depicts the raw emotions felt by the son of a domineering military father, who rules his family with an iron fist. Pat Conroy creates an explosive character in Bull Meecham that one should hate, but will ultimately love. Readers will find themselves drawn into this vivid and dramatic novel.
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Roddy Doyle
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Minerva
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Paddy Clarke Ha, Ha, Ha
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If you find yourself nostalgic for childhood adventures and the bittersweet transition to the adult world, "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha" could be a treasure for you. Roddy Doyle captures the essence of growing up with humor and poignancy, all through the eyes of a little boy who's starting to see the world change around him. This isn't just another childhood story; it's a window into the soul of the youthful years, with all their mischief, wonder, and the dawning of complex realities.
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"Normal People" is like watching a dance of minds and hearts, tangled in an intimate choreography that speaks to the awkward, yet profound connections we forge. Sally Rooney has a knack for dissecting the subtleties of human relationships, serving as a mirror to our own experiences. If you've ever found beauty in the messiness of young love and the path to self-discovery, this book could resonate with you deeply. It's a modern tale that feels both timeless and incredibly specific, perfect for those who love character-driven narratives.