Best Coming of Age Novels

1 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

2 Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

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3 The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton

4 The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

5 The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

6 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith

7 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie

8 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

9 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

10 Eleanor & Park - Rainbow Rowell

The Contenders

11 Looking for Alaska - John Green

12 The Body - Stephen King