Coming of Age Novels

Louisa May Alcott
Little Women

Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre

Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage

Charles Dickens
Great Expectations

Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God

James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

John Knowles
A Separate Peace

Carson McCullers
A Member of the Wedding

J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye

Betty Smith
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn