Exceptional novels with a 'coming of age' theme
Coming of Age
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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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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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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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King of the Armadillos
by Wendy Chin-Tanner
Hardcover: Jul 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
A transcendent debut novel about family, love, and belonging, set against the backdrops of 1950s New York City and a historical leprosarium in Louisiana, following one young man's quest to not only survive, but live a full and vibrant life
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Let Us Descend: A Novel
by Jesmyn Ward
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow—comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years ...
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Demon Copperhead: A Novel
by Barbara Kingsolver
Hardcover: Oct 2022
Paperback: Aug 2024
From the New York Times bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behavior, a brilliant novel which enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity.
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Mina's Matchbox: A Novel
by Yoko Ogawa
Hardcover: Aug 2024
From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them.
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