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Award Winning Coming of Age Novels
169 books from 19 lists, 1847 to 2026
The coming of age novel is the form prize juries return to most, and the range here runs from books written for the age they describe to books about that age written for adults looking back. Both belong on one page, since a reader searching for one usually wants the other too.
Books by prize
One shelf per list, newest first on each. The prize name opens its full list.
- 2026 All the Blues in the Sky
- 2021 When You Trap a Tiger
- 2020 New Kid
- 2019 Merci Suárez Changes Gears
- 2018 Hello, Universe
- 2015 The Crossover
- 2011 Moon Over Manifest
- 2007 The Higher Power of Lucky
- 2006 Criss Cross
- 2003 Crispin: The Cross of Lead
- 2002 A Single Shard
- 1941 Call It Courage
- 1937 Roller Skates
- 1936 Caddie Woodlawn
- 1935 Dobry
- 1933 Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
- 1932 Waterless Mountain
- 1924 The Dark Frigate
- 2025 Flesh
- 2020 Shuggie Bain
- 2018 Milkman
- 2011 The Sense of an Ending
- 2005 The Sea
- 2004 The Line of Beauty
- 2003 Vernon God Little
- 2002 Life of Pi
- 1997 The God of Small Things
- 1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
- 1991 The Famished Road
- 1976 Saville
- 2025 Playworld
- 2023 The Bee Sting
- 2020 The Vanishing Half
- 2018 Educated
- 2018 Normal People
- 2018 Where the Crawdads Sing
- 2017 Little Fires Everywhere
- 2016 The Girls
- 2013 The Ocean at the End of the Lane
- 2005 Never Let Me Go
- 2005 The Book Thief
- 2003 The Kite Runner
- 2002 The Lovely Bones
- 1999 Girl with a Pearl Earring
- 1999 The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- 1998 About a Boy
- 1993 The Virgin Suicides
- 1989 A Prayer for Owen Meany
- 1989 The Joy Luck Club
- 1988 Cat's Eye
- 1987 Norwegian Wood
- 1986 It
- 1982 Different Seasons
- 1981 The Hotel New Hampshire
- 1980 Housekeeping
- 1980 The Clan of the Cave Bear
- 1978 The Cement Garden
- 1974 Carrie
- 1973 Sula
- 1970 The Bluest Eye
- 1967 The Outsiders
- 1963 The Bell Jar
- 1960 The Country Girls
- 1959 A Separate Peace
- 1952 East of Eden
- 1951 The Catcher in the Rye
- 1948 I Capture the Castle
- 1947 The Diary of a Young Girl
- 1940 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- 1929 Look Homeward, Angel
- 1920 This Side of Paradise
- 1908 Anne of Green Gables
- 2024 Some Desperate Glory
- 2012 Among Others
- 2009 The Graveyard Book
- 1996 The Diamond Age
- 1986 Ender's Game
- 2023 Demon Copperhead
- 2020 The Nickel Boys
- 2015 All the Light We Cannot See
- 2014 The Goldfinch
- 2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- 2003 Middlesex
- 1983 The Color Purple
- 1963 The Reivers
- 1961 To Kill a Mockingbird
- 1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
- 1958 A Death in the Family
- 1939 The Yearling
- 1936 Honey in the Horn
- 2023 Saint Death's Daughter
- 2016 The Chimes
- 2011 Who Fears Death
- 2009 Tender Morsels
- 2009 The Shadow Year
- 2008 Ysabel
- 2006 Kafka on the Shore
- 2003 The Facts of Life
- 1990 Madouc
- 2022 frank: sonnets
- 1960 Heart's Needle
- 1950 Annie Allen
- 2021 Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
- 2014 Ordinary Grace
- 2011 The Lock Artist
- 2021 My Heart Is a Chainsaw
- 2000 The Traveling Vampire Show
- 1991 Boy's Life
- 2021 The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
- 1989 Billy Bathgate
- 1986 Kate Vaiden
- 1977 Song of Solomon
- 2019 Trust Exercise
- 2017 Sing, Unburied, Sing
- 2012 The Round House
- 2011 Salvage the Bones
- 2003 The Great Fire
- 1992 All the Pretty Horses
- 1986 World's Fair
- 1980 Sophie's Choice
- 1975 The Hair of Harold Roux
- 1964 The Centaur
- 1960 Goodbye, Columbus
- 1954 The Adventures of Augie March
- 2016 All the Birds in the Sky
- 2008 Powers
- 1968 Rite of Passage
- 2016 Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
- 2008 Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
- 1997 Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
- 1988 Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
- 1983 Growing Up
- 1929 The Training of an American
- 1922 A Daughter of the Middle Border
- 1921 The Americanization of Edward Bok
- 2010 Just Kids
- 1992 Becoming a Man
- 2001 A House for Mr Biswas
- 1995 Death of a Naturalist
- 1983 Lord of the Flies
- 1933 The Life of Arseniev
- 1928 Kristin Lavransdatter
- 1917 Lucky Per
- 1915 Jean-Christophe
- 1907 Kim
- 1903 Synnøve Solbakken
- 1886 Kidnapped
- 1884 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- 1883 Treasure Island
- 1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- 1868 Little Women
- 1861 Great Expectations
- 1860 The Mill on the Floss
- 1850 David Copperfield
- 1847 Jane Eyre
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