List of coming-of-age stories

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In genre studies, a coming-of-age story is a genre of literature, theatre, film, and video that focuses on the growth of a protagonist from childhood to adulthood, or "coming of age". Coming-of-age stories tend to emphasize dialogue or internal monologue over action, and are often set in the past. The subjects of coming-of-age stories are typically teenagers.[1] The Bildungsroman is a specific subgenre of coming-of-age story.

The plot points of coming of age stories are usually emotional changes within the character(s) in question.[2]

In literature[]

  • The Telemachy in Homer's Odyssey (8th century BC)
  • Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, by Ibn Tufail (12th century)[3]
  • The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, by Henry Fielding (1749)[4]
  • The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne (1759)[4]
  • Candide, by Voltaire (1759)
  • Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen (1817)
  • Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens (1837–1839)
  • Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens (1860–1861)
  • Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott (1868–1869)
  • Little Men, by Louisa May Alcott (1871)
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain (1876)
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (1884–1885)
  • The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1894)
  • The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane (1894–1895)
  • The Blue Lagoon, by Henry De Vere Stacpoole (1908)
  • Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1908)
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)[5]
  • All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque (1929)
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith (1943)
  • Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes (1943)
  • The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger (1951)
  • East of Eden, by John Steinbeck (1952)
  • The Baron in the Trees, by Italo Calvino (1957)
  • Flowers for Algernon, short story and novel by Daniel Keyes (short story 1959, novel 1966)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird, novel by Harper Lee (1960)
  • Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls (1961)
  • A Clockwork Orange, a novel by Anthony Burgess (1962)
  • The Learning Tree, novel by Gordon Parks (1963)
  • The Graduate, novel by Charles Webb (1963)
  • The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath (1964)
  • The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton (1967)
  • Last Summer, by Evan Hunter (1968)
  • Sounder, by William H. Armstrong (1969)
  • A Day No Pigs Would Die, by Robert Newton Peck (1972)
  • A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich, by Alice Childress (1973)
  • Ordinary People, by Judith Guest (1976)
  • Vision Quest, by Terry Davis (1979)
  • The Body, short story by Stephen King (1982)
  • The Color Purple, by Alice Walker (1982)
  • Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card (1985)[6]
  • It, by Stephen King (1986)
  • This Boy's Life, memoirs by Tobias Wolff (1989)
  • What's Eating Gilbert Grape, by Peter Hedges (1991)
  • The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides (1993)
  • Ghost World, graphic novel by Daniel Clowes (1993–1997)
  • The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, novel by Chris Fuhrman (1994)
  • The Zigzag Kid, by David Grossman (1994)
  • Into the Widening World, a collection of 26 short fictional coming-of-age stories by 26 notable authors (published 1995)
  • Harry Potter, by J.K. Rowling (1997–2007)
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky (1999)
  • Alex Rider, by Anthony Horowitz (2000–till date)
  • The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Ann Brashares (2001)
  • Life of Pi, by Yann Martel (2001)
  • Invincible, by Robert Kirkman (2003–2018)
  • The Power of Five, by Anthony Horowitz (2005–2012)
  • Winter's Bone, by Daniel Woodrell (2006)
  • Call Me by Your Name, by André Aciman (2007)
  • The Enola Holmes Mysteries: The Case of the Missing Marquess, by Nancy Springer (2007)
  • The Name of the Wind and the rest of The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss (2007–present)
  • Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain by Derek Landy (2007–2014; 2017–present)
  • Goodnight Punpun, by Inio Asano (2007)
  • Paper Towns, by John Green (2008)
  • Homestuck, by Andrew Hussie (2009)
  • The Miseducation of Cameron Post, by Emily M. Danforth (2012)
  • Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, by Jesse Andrews (2012)
  • Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, by Becky Albertalli (2015)
  • Boy Erased: A Memoir, by Garrard Conley (2016)
  • Bones & All, novel by Camille DeAngelis (2016)[7]
  • The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas (2017)

In theatre[]

Musical theatre[]

Play[]

  • 4000 Miles (2011–2013, 2022)
  • Choir Boy (2012–2019)

In film and television[]

See also: List of teen dramas

In film, coming-of-age is a genre of teen films. Coming-of-age films focus on the psychological and moral growth or transition of a protagonist from youth to adulthood. Personal growth and change is an important characteristic of this genre, which relies on dialogue and emotional responses, rather than action. The story is sometimes told in the form of a flashback.[1] Historically, coming-of-age films usually centred on young boys, although coming-of-age films focusing on girls have become more common in the early 21st century, such as The Poker House (2008), Winter's Bone (2010), Hick (2011), Girlhood (2014), Mustang (2015), The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015), Mistress America (2015), The Edge of Seventeen (2016), Lady Bird (2017), Sweet 20 (2017).[8]

Films in this subgenre include:

Films featuring protagonists in particular age groups, such as pre-teens, are:

or post-high school and college students, in films such as:

  • Love Story (1970)
  • Young People (1972)
  • Carrie (1976)[9]
  • Animal House (1978)
  • Grease (1978)
  • Porky's (1981)
  • Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)[9]
  • Footloose (1984)
  • With Honors (1994)
  • Kicking and Screaming (1995)
  • Good Will Hunting (1997)
  • Can't Hardly Wait (1998)[9]
  • American Pie (1999)[9]
  • Ghost World (2001)
  • the Spider-Man film franchise (2002–present)[13][9]
  • An Education (2009)[9]
  • 3 Idiots (2009)
  • Whiplash (2014)
  • Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
  • Aanandam (2016)
  • Chhichhore (2018)
  • The Souvenir (2019)
  • Pink Skies Ahead (2020)

or people aged around 20 years old who do not go to college, such as:

  • Brooklyn (2015)
  • Sweet 20 (2017)

or in the case of unique coming-of-age stories centered on post-college aged individuals, such as:

  • All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
  • The Seven Year Itch (1955)
  • The Graduate (1967)[9]
  • Charly (1968)
  • Taxi Driver (1976)[citation needed]
  • An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
  • St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
  • What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)[9]
  • Never Been Kissed (1999)
  • Old School (2003)
  • The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)

Coming-of-age television series include:

  • Happy Days (1974–1984)[14]
  • the Degrassi franchise (1979–2017)
  • One Summer (1983)
  • Annika (1984)
  • The Wonder Years (1988–1993)[14]
  • Boy Meets World (1993–2000)
  • My So-Called Life (1994–1995)
  • Malhação (1995–present)
  • That 70's Show (1998–2006)
  • Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000)
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003)
  • Dawson's Creek (1998–2003)
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005–2008)[citation needed]
  • Skins (2007–2013)
  • Gossip Girl (2007–2012)
  • Glee (2009–2015)
  • Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day (2011)
  • Teen Wolf (2011–2017)
  • Adventure Time (2010–2018)[citation needed]
  • The Legend of Korra (2012–2014)
  • Gravity Falls (2012–2016)
  • Steven Universe (2013–2020)[citation needed]
  • Over the Garden Wall (2014)
  • Girl Meets World (2014–2017)
  • Younger (2015–2021)
  • Skam (2015–2017)
  • We Bare Bears (2015–2019)
  • Stranger Things (2016–present)
  • Anne with an E (2017–2019)
  • Atypical (2017–2021)
  • 13 Reasons Why (2017–2020)[citation needed]
  • One Day at a Time (2017–2020)
  • On My Block (2018–present)
  • SKAM Austin (2018–2019)
  • Hilda (2018–present)
  • Everything Sucks! (2018)
  • The End of the F***ing World (2017–2019)
  • Sex Education (2019–present)
  • PEN15 (2019–present)[citation needed]
  • Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart (2019–present)
  • Amphibia (2019–present)
  • Euphoria (2019–present)[citation needed]
  • Sintonia (2019–present)
  • Ladhood (2019–present)
  • I Am Not Okay with This (2020)
  • Love, Victor (2020–present)
  • The Queen's Gambit (2020)
  • We Are Who We Are (2020)
  • Grand Army (2020–present)

In video games[]

While not represented as often as in other mediums, coming-of-age stories can also be found in video games such as Life Is Strange.[15]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Benyahia, Sarah Casey; Gaffney, Freddie; White, John (2006). As Film Studies: The Essential Introduction. Essentials Series. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-415-39311-6. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
  2. ^ Romero, Travis (2020). "Coming Of Age". Ginglu. Retrieved December 7, 2020.
  3. ^ David Edward Cooper; Joy Palmer; Liora Bresler (2001). Fifty major thinkers on education: from Confucius to Dewey. Routledge. p. 34. ISBN 0-415-23126-4.
  4. ^ a b McWilliams, Ellen (2009). Margaret Atwood and the Female Bildungsroman. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-7546-6027-9. The two early English Bildungsromane already mentioned, Tom Jones and The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, are examples of coming-of-age narratives that predate the generic expectations of the German tradition.
  5. ^ Knausgård, Karl. "On Reading Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
  6. ^ Melanie Kinchen; et al. (13 July 2006). "Bildungsroman Novels for Young Adults". Archived from the original on 28 April 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
  7. ^ "Bones & All | Camille DeAngelis | Macmillan". US Macmillan. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g Erbland, Kate (December 5, 2017). "7 Female-Centric Coming-of-Age Movies to Watch If You Loved 'Lady Bird'". IndieWire.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae "The 50 Best Coming-of-Age Movies". MTV News.
  10. ^ a b c d e MINIQUE HOBDY (October 27, 2020). "13 Black Coming-of-Age Films You'll Watch Again and Again". Essence.
  11. ^ a b c d e f g h i Renwick, Finlay (September 17, 2020). "12 Films That Capture The Feeling Of Being A Teenager". Esquire.
  12. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Bosselman, Haley (July 18, 2021). "The Best Coming-of-Age Movies Streaming Right Now". Variety.
  13. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Haysom, Sam (29 August 2020). "The best coming-of-age movies since 2000". Mashable.
  14. ^ a b Fox, Levi (2002). "The Historical Coming of Age Genre". Were Those the Days? Historical Coming of Age Films in American Culture. American Studies, University of Virginia. Archived from the original on 15 October 2012. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
  15. ^ Riaz, Adnan (26 October 2015). "Review: Life Is Strange Episode 5: Polarized". Hardcore Gamer. Archived from the original on 28 October 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
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