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Coming-of-age stories focus on the growth of a protagonist from childhood to adulthood, although "
coming of age " is a genre for a variety of
media , including
literature ,
theatre ,
film ,
television and
video games .
In literature
The Books of Samuel
The
Telemachy in
Homer 's
Odyssey (8th century BC)
Hayy ibn Yaqdhan , by
Ibn Tufail (12th century)
[1]
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling , by
Henry Fielding (1749)
[2]
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , by
Laurence Sterne (1759)
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Candide , by
Voltaire (1759)
Northanger Abbey , by
Jane Austen (1817)
Oliver Twist , by
Charles Dickens (1837–1839)
Great Expectations , by
Charles Dickens (1860–1861)
Little Women , by
Louisa May Alcott (1868–1869)
Little Men , by
Louisa May Alcott (1871)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer , by
Mark Twain (1876)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , by
Mark Twain (1884–1885)
The Jungle Book by
Rudyard Kipling (1894)
The Red Badge of Courage , by
Stephen Crane (1894–1895)
The Blue Lagoon , by
Henry De Vere Stacpoole (1908)
Anne of Green Gables , by
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1908)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by
James Joyce (1916)
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All Quiet on the Western Front , by
Erich Maria Remarque (1929)
Their Eyes Were Watching God , by
Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter , by
Carson McCullers (1940)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn , by
Betty Smith (1943)
Johnny Tremain , by
Esther Forbes (1943)
The Catcher in the Rye , by
J.D. Salinger (1951)
East of Eden , by
John Steinbeck (1952)
Old Yeller , by
Fred Gipson (1956)
The Baron in the Trees , by
Italo Calvino (1957)
Flowers for Algernon , short story and novel by
Daniel Keyes (short story 1959, novel 1966)
To Kill a Mockingbird , novel by
Harper Lee (1960)
Where the Red Fern Grows , by
Wilson Rawls (1961)
A Clockwork Orange , a novel by
Anthony Burgess (1962)
The Learning Tree , novel by
Gordon Parks (1963)
The Graduate , novel by
Charles Webb (1963)
The Bell Jar , by
Sylvia Plath (1964)
The Last Picture Show , by
Larry McMurtry (1966)
The Outsiders , by
S.E. Hinton (1967)
Last Summer , by
Evan Hunter (1968)
Sounder , by
William H. Armstrong (1969)
A Day No Pigs Would Die , by
Robert Newton Peck (1972)
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich , by
Alice Childress (1973)
Ordinary People , by
Judith Guest (1976)
A River Runs Through It , by
Norman Maclean (1976)
Vision Quest , by
Terry Davis (1979)
The Body , short story by
Stephen King (1982)
The Color Purple , by
Alice Walker (1982)
The Sheep-Pig , by
Dick King-Smith (1983)
Ender's Game , by
Orson Scott Card (1985)
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It , by
Stephen King (1986)
This Boy's Life , memoirs by
Tobias Wolff (1989)
What's Eating Gilbert Grape , by
Peter Hedges (1991)
The Virgin Suicides , by
Jeffrey Eugenides (1993)
Ghost World , graphic novel by
Daniel Clowes (1993–1997)
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys , novel by
Chris Fuhrman (1994)
The Zigzag Kid , by
David Grossman (1994)
Into the Widening World , a collection of 26 short fictional coming-of-age stories by 26 notable authors (published 1995)
Harry Potter , by
J.K. Rowling (1997–2007)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower , by
Stephen Chbosky (1999)
Alex Rider , by
Anthony Horowitz (2000–till date)
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants , by
Ann Brashares (2001)
Life of Pi , by
Yann Martel (2001)
Invincible , by
Robert Kirkman (2003–2018)
The Power of Five , by
Anthony Horowitz (2005–2012)
Winter's Bone , by
Daniel Woodrell (2006)
Call Me by Your Name , by
André Aciman (2007)
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You , by Peter Cameron (2007)
The Enola Holmes Mysteries: The Case of the Missing Marquess , by
Nancy Springer (2007)
The Name of the Wind and the rest of The Kingkiller Chronicles by
Patrick Rothfuss (2007–present)
Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain by
Derek Landy (2007–2014; 2017–present)
Goodnight Punpun , by
Inio Asano (2007)
Paper Towns , by
John Green (2008)
Homestuck , by
Andrew Hussie (2009)
The Summer I Turned Pretty , by
Jenny Han (2009–2011)
The Miseducation of Cameron Post , by
Emily M. Danforth (2012)
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl , by
Jesse Andrews (2012)
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda , by
Becky Albertalli (2015)
Boy Erased: A Memoir , by
Garrard Conley (2016)
Bones & All , novel by
Camille DeAngelis (2015)
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The Hate U Give , by
Angie Thomas (2017)
Boy Swallows Universe , by
Trent Dalton (2018)
Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel , by
Val Emmich with
Steven Levenson ,
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (2018)
[7]
The Prom: The Novel , by Saundra Mitchell with
Matthew Sklar ,
Chad Beguelin and
Bob Martin (2019)
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In theatre
In Manga and Anime
A large portion of the manga industry is dedicated to teenagers, such as
Weekly Shōnen Jump and
Weekly Shōnen Magazine and, therefore, a majority of said manga contains some aspects of the protagonist's growth. Coming-of-age stories are called Shujinkō-Seichōkei (主人公成長系), meaning "protagonist's growth type".
Manga
Anime
In film
In film, coming-of-age is a genre of teen films. Films in this subgenre include:
Films featuring protagonists in particular age groups, such as pre-teens, are:
or post-high school and college students, in films such as:
or people aged around 20 years old who do not go to college, such as:
or in the case of unique coming-of-age stories centered on post-college aged individuals, such as:
In television
Coming-of-age television series include:
In video games
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