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Bildungsroman Bests

A bildungsroman (IPA: German: "novel of personal development") is a novelistic form which concentrates on the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the protagonist usually from childhood to maturity. These themes are now often portrayed in films as well as novels.
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1. The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Mythos Books)
by Joseph Campbell
  
2. The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
  
3. Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
  
4. The Chosen (The Stone Dance of the Chameleon, Book 1)
by Ricardo Pinto
  
5. Emile, or On Education
by John, Jacques Rousseau
  
6. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
by Goethe
  
7. Odyssey
by Homer
  
8. Peter Camenzind: A Novel
by Hermann Hesse
  
9. James T Farrell: Studs Lonigan a Trilogy (Library of America)
by James T. Farrell
  
10. Anton Reiser: A Psychological Novel (Penguin Classics)
by Karl Philipp Moritz
  
11. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
12. Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
13. David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
14. The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. By Charles Dickens.
by Michigan Historical Reprint Series
  
15. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
  
16. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Pernnial Moderns Classics)
by Harper Lee
  
17. The Power of One
by Bryce Courtenay
  
18. Starship Troopers
by Robert A. Heinlein
  
19. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)
by J. K. Rowling
  
20. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2)
by J.K. Rowling
  
21. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3)
by J.K. Rowling
  
22. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4)
by J. K. Rowling
  
23. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5)
by J. K. Rowling
  
24. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)
by J.K. Rowling
  
25. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)
by J. K. Rowling
  
26. Eureka seveN: Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl Volume 1
by Bones
  
27. Eureka seveN: Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl Volume 2 (Eureka Seven)
by Bones
  
28. Eureka seveN Manga Volume 2: Psalms Of Planets Eureka seveN (Eureka Seven)
by Jinsei Kataoka
  
29. Eureka seveN Manga Volume 3: Psalms Of Planets Eureka seveN (Eureka Seven: Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven)
by Jinsei Kataoka
  
30. Eureka seveN Manga Volume 4: Psalms Of Planets Eureka Seven
by Jinsei Kataoka
  
31.
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 Eureka seveN Manga Volume 5: Psalms Of Planet Eureka Seven
by Jinsei Kataoka
  
32.
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 Eureka seveN Manga Volume 6: Psalms Of Planets Eureka seveN
by Jinsei Kataoka
  
33. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
  
34. The Go-Between (New York Review Books Classics)
by L. P. Hartley
  
35. Lord of the Flies : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by William Golding
  
36.
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 Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
  
37. How Many Miles to Babylon?
by Jennifer Johnston
  
38. Empire of the Sun
by J. G. Ballard
  
39. Riddley Walker
by Russell Hoban
  
40. His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass)
by Philip Pullman
  
41. Der Vorleser.
by Bernhard Schlink
  
42. Grendel (Fantasy Masterworks)
by John Gardner
  
43. Emma (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
44. The Catcher in the Rye  
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Created by bijilah on Sep 25, 2007.