The story is sometimes told in the form of a flashback. Personal growth and change is an important characteristic of this genre, which relies on dialogue and emotional responses, rather than action. Coming-of-age films focus on the psychological and moral growth or transition of a protagonist from youth to adulthood. In film, coming-of-age is a genre of teen films. Judy Garland playing the character Dorothy in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Everybody's Talking About Jamie (2017–present).The Prom: The Novel, by Saundra Mitchell with Matthew Sklar, Chad Beguelin and Bob Martin (2019).Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel, by Val Emmich with Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (2018).The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas (2017).Bones & All, novel by Camille DeAngelis (2016).Boy Erased: A Memoir, by Garrard Conley (2016).the Homo Sapiens Agenda, by Becky Albertalli (2015)
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, by Jesse Andrews (2012).The Miseducation of Cameron Post, by Emily M.Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain by Derek Landy (2007–2014 2017–present).The Name of the Wind and the rest of The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss (2007–present).The Enola Holmes Mysteries: The Case of the Missing Marquess, by Nancy Springer (2007).Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, by Peter Cameron (2007).Call Me by Your Name, by André Aciman (2007).Winter's Bone, by Daniel Woodrell (2006).The Power of Five, by Anthony Horowitz (2005–2012).Invincible, by Robert Kirkman (2003–2018).The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Ann Brashares (2001).Alex Rider, by Anthony Horowitz (2000–till date).The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky (1999).Into the Widening World, a collection of 26 short fictional coming-of-age stories by 26 notable authors (published 1995).The Zigzag Kid, by David Grossman (1994).The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, novel by Chris Fuhrman (1994).Ghost World, graphic novel by Daniel Clowes (1993–1997).The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides (1993).What's Eating Gilbert Grape, by Peter Hedges (1991).This Boy's Life, memoirs by Tobias Wolff (1989).Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card (1985).The Color Purple, by Alice Walker (1982).The Body, short story by Stephen King (1982).A River Runs Through It, by Norman Maclean (1976).Ordinary People, by Judith Guest (1976).A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich, by Alice Childress (1973).A Day No Pigs Would Die, by Robert Newton Peck (1972).The Graduate, novel by Charles Webb (1963).The Learning Tree, novel by Gordon Parks (1963).A Clockwork Orange, a novel by Anthony Burgess (1962).Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls (1961).To Kill a Mockingbird, novel by Harper Lee (1960).Flowers for Algernon, short story and novel by Daniel Keyes (short story 1959, novel 1966).The Baron in the Trees, by Italo Calvino (1957).Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes (1943).A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith (1943).The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers (1940).All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque (1929).A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916).Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1908).The Blue Lagoon, by Henry De Vere Stacpoole (1908).The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane (1894–1895).The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1894).The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (1884–1885).The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain (1876).Little Men, by Louisa May Alcott (1871).Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott (1868–1869).Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens (1860–1861).Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens (1837–1839).Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen (1817).The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne (1759).The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, by Henry Fielding (1749).Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, by Ibn Tufail (12th century).The Telemachy in Homer's Odyssey (8th century BC).