Exceptional novels with a 'coming of age' theme
Coming of Age
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Beautyland: A Novel
by Marie-Helene Bertino
Hardcover: Jan 2024
Paperback: Jan 2025
A wise, tender novel about a woman who doesn't feel at home on Earth, by the acclaimed author of Parakeet.
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Happy: A Novel
by Celina Baljeet Basra
Hardcover: Nov 2023
Paperback: Nov 2024
For fans of Vikas Swarup and Charles Yu, the story of a starry-eyed cinephile who leaves his rural village in Punjab to pursue his dreams - a formally daring debut novel set against the global migration crisis.
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Hot Springs Drive
by Lindsay Hunter
Hardcover: Nov 2023
Paperback: Nov 2024
The third title in Roxane Gay Books' inaugural list, Hot Springs Drive is an urgent, vicious blade of a novel about a shocking betrayal and its aftermath, asking just how far you'll go to have everything you want
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Roman Year: A Memoir
by Andre Aciman
Hardcover: Oct 2024
The author of Call Me by Your Name returns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood.
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The Blood Years
by Elana K. Arnold
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Oct 2024
From Michael L. Printz honoree & National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold comes the harrowing story of a young girl's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania.
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Our Evenings: A Novel
by Alan Hollinghurst
Hardcover: Oct 2024
From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel of modern England through the lens of one man's acutely observed experiences.
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The Rest of You
by Maame Blue
Paperback: Oct 2024
An internationally award-winning writer makes her triumphant American debut in this emotionally powerful story—a potent blend of Queenie and The Vanishing Half—about a woman's journey to uncover a foundational family secret from the ...
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Shred Sisters
by Betsy Lerner
Hardcover: Oct 2024
No one will love you more or hurt you more than a sister.
From Betsy Lerner, celebrated author of The Bridge Ladies, comes a wry and riveting debut novel about family, mental illness, and a hard-won path between two sisters.
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Final Cut
by Charles Burns
Hardcover: Sep 2024
The beloved and award-winning author of Black Hole's haunting and visually arresting story of an artist's obsessions, and the value and cost of pushing the boundaries of creativity.
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Land of Milk and Honey: A Novel
by C Pam Zhang
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world
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The Reformatory: A Novel
by Tananarive Due
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead.
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