Best Coming of Age Books Ever

Discover the best coming of age books ever written! Explore timeless classics and modern favorites that capture the journey from youth to adulthood. Perfect for readers of all ages.

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The Catcher in the Rye

by J.D. Salinger

The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books. "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.
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The Crying of Lot 49

by Thomas Pynchon

Oedipa Maas finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy.
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The Teachings of Don Juan

by Carlos Castaneda

"Published by arrangement with the University of California Press."--T.p. verso.