Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Includes an exclusive conversation between Ruth Reichl and Emily Giffin Ruth Reichl is a born storyteller. Through her restaurant reviews, where she celebrated the pleasures of a well-made meal, and her bestselling memoirs that address our universal feelings of...

*****Winner 2017 National Indie Excellence Award***Indie B.R.A.G. Award Honoree*******Winner Chill with a Book Readers' Award*******Finalist 2017 Kindle Book Awards***Winner Readers' Favorite Book Award*****An IWIC Hall of Fame Novel*** "This book needs to join the ranks of the classic...

This PEN/Hemingway Award winner about coming of age in Los Angeles is a “little gem of a novel . . . a masterwork of Hollywood fiction” (Salon). He’s a child of 1940s Hollywood—specifically, Casa Fiesta, a ranch in the Malibu hills that he shares with his mother, a onetime Broadway...

"[An] epic tale."--O: The Oprah Magazine "Irresistible."--Wall Street Journal "A fresh and subversive take on a genre traditionally owned by male leviathans."--New York Times Book Review, *Editors' Choice* "Heart-warming and hilarious."--Jennifer Niven**,** author of All the Bright...

“A captivating coming-of-age novel that is, by turns, funny and sad and elegiac” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) about two best friends as their post-grad lives diverge—one into liberal academia, the other into the American military occupation of Iraq. On a summer night in 2004,...

A masterful and vivid portrayal of a young boy's awakening to true love in the sensual landscape of Western Australia. Winner of the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, 1937. Fifteen-year-old Charles Fox is sent away to boarding school, innocent, alone and afraid. There one of his masters...

Abandoned by his father and forced to grow up fast, 12-year-old Son makes the brave decision to trek across the land of Aun to be reunited with his mother. As he travels, he finds the road to be a perilous place as he stands against heartless bandits, defends a helpless orphan girl, and encounters...

WINNER OF THE 2018 LUCIEN STRYK ASIAN TRANSLATION PRIZE The English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award. An NYRB Classics Original Set in the post-martial-law...

Forge your own destiny. Billy Cole is the sixteen-springs-old heir of legendary war hero and famed weapon smith, Ian the Black. The World's Shadow War and days of glory are far behind Ian Cole, however. These days he can be found on the ale house floor as often as his gloomy smithy shop. Ian's...

The Getting of Wisdom is the classic Australian novel of school days, a compelling and frank account of a young girl's coming of age. The Getting of Wisdom was first published in 1910 and has continued to sell well. Germaine Greer's introduction, of course, makes this edition even more appealing...

First love—it will change your life for ever… Daisy has been dragged along on a family holiday against her will. Still, the holiday has its compensations. Katrina, the resident 'cool' girl who takes Daisy under her wing, and her gorgeous, older cousin who sends smouldering looks in Daisy’s...

A spellbinding debut about half sisters, one black and one white, on a 1950s road trip through the American South Self-educated and brown-skinned, Cassie works full time in her grandmother’s laundry in rural Mississippi. Illiterate and white, Judith falls for “colored music” and dreams...

This postwar British coming-of-age novel questions the foundations of society and self.   Class and identity are lifelong struggles for Herbert Thurgarton-Strang, who was born in India but sent away at age seven to a boarding school in England. As an adolescent, Herbert loathes British weather and...

Two guys. Four hearts. One major freakin problem. You can't stop loving someone. You just can't. No matter how hard you try, who you meet, how many new lovers you get. You just can't. You move on. You forget. But you never stop loving him. Ever. On returning to New...