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Coming-of-Age Novels of growing up From the January/February 2011 issue of Bookmarks Deer Park Public Library 44 Lake Avenue Deer Park, NY 11729 (631) 586-3000 www.deerparklibrary.org Early 20 th Century to 1950 The Eighties A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow Black Swan Green by David Mitchell Daddy Was a Numbers Runner by Louise Meriwether Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt World’s Fair by E.L. Doctorow To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Nineties A Separate Peace by John Knowles The Chosen by Chaim Potok Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks Martha Quest by Doris Lessing The Way I Found Her by Rose Tremain The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichie Atonement by Ian McEwan Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford 2000 – Present The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch Postwar America The Near Future… The Cheerleader by Ruth Doan McDougall The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Risk Pool by Richard Russo A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White You may also want to try: The Sixties Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth On the Road by Jack Kerouac This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Seventies A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons The Little Friend by Donna Tartt Breath by Tim Winton .

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