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Top 10 Lithub.com’s 50 Greatest Coming-Of-Age Novels
Ranking | Items |
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#1 | To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) |
#2 | Jane Eyre |
#3 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) |
#4 | Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides) |
#5 | Purple Hibiscus (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) |
#6 | Call Me by Your Name (André Aciman) |
#7 | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit |
#8 | The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) |
#9 | The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath) |
#10 | The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros) |

Lithub.com’s 50 Greatest Coming-Of-Age Novels
Rank | Items |
---|---|
#1 | To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) |
#2 | Jane Eyre |
#3 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) |
#4 | Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides) |
#5 | Purple Hibiscus (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) |
#6 | Call Me by Your Name (André Aciman) |
#7 | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit |
#8 | The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) |
#9 | The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath) |
#10 | The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros) |
#11 | Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) |
#12 | Their Eyes Were Watching God |
#13 | Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison) |
#14 | A Separate Peace (John Knowles) |
#15 | Breath, Eyes, Memory (Edwidge Danticat) |
#16 | It (Stephen King) |
#17 | We the Animals (Justin Torres) |
#18 | Geek Love (Katherine Dunn) |
#19 | Black Swan Green (David Mitchell) |
#20 | The Lover (Marguerite Duras) |
#21 | Autobiography of Red (Anne Carson) |
#22 | We Have Always Lived in the Castle |
#23 | Sag Harbour (Colson Whitehead) |
#24 | My Education (Susan Choi) |
#25 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith) |
#26 | Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace) |
#27 | Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin) |
#28 | Bastard Out of Carolina (Dorothy Allison) |
#29 | The Last Illusion (Porochista Khakpour) |
#30 | On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Ocean Vuong) |
#31 | Sweet Days of Discipline (Fleur Jaeggy) |
#32 | How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Julia Alvarez) |
#33 | Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison) |
#34 | The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow) |
#35 | Portnoy’s Complaint (Philip Roth) |
#36 | The Baron in the Trees |
#37 | Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy) |
#38 | Oreo (Fran Ross) |
#39 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
#40 | The Last Samurai (Helen Dewitt) |
#41 | My Brilliant Friend |
#42 | Sing, Unburied, Sing (Jesmyn Ward) |
#43 | The Cider House Rules (John Irving) |
#44 | Breaking the Tongue (Vyvyane Loh) |
#45 | Tipping the Velvet (Sarah Waters) |
#46 | Prep (Curtis Sittenfeld) |
#47 | Silver Sparrow (Tayari Jones) |
#48 | Midnight’s Children (Salman Rushdie) |
#49 | Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro) |
#50 | White Teeth (Zadie Smith) |