Ayad Akhtar Hayat Shah was captivated by Mina long before he met her: his mother's beautiful, brilliant, and soulfully devout friend is a family legend. When he learns that Mina...

Hilary Thayer Hamann Falling in love, maintaining fragile family relationships and growing to understand the incremental effect of every experience, Hilary Thayer Hamann's coming-of-age novel is a depiction of sexual...

Tawni O'Dell Harley Altmyer should be in college drinking Rolling Rock and chasing girls. He should be freed from his closed-minded, stricken coal town, with its lack of jobs and...

David Mitchell From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new.Black Swan Green...

Diana Athill In England half a century ago, well-brought-up young women are meant to aspire to the respectable life. Some things are not to be spoken of; some are most...

AN Wilson A World War II orphan, raised by his aunt and uncle in an English village, comes of age with many childhood notions changed by his schooling and his...

John Green Quentin Jacobsen has always loved Margo from afar. So when she climbs through his window to summon him on an all-night road trip of revenge he cannot help...

Nina Stibbe This is the story of Lizzie Vogel, a 15 year old girl who finds herself working in an old people's home in Leicestershire in the 1970s. The place...

Charles Simmons On an isolated island off the New England coast, fifteen-year-old Michael and his parents begin their customary lazy vacation - swimming, sailing, dreaming, reading. Nothing to worry about,...

Felicia Berliner In this witty, provocative, and “compulsively readable coming-of-age story” (Cosmopolitan), a young Hasidic woman on a quest to get married fears she will never find a groom because...

Elana Ferrante “Two years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly. The sentence was uttered under his breath, in the apartment that my...