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Our pick of the best coming-of-age books you need on your reading list
Semi-autobiographical chronicle of a young boy’s passage from university student to independent artist.
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I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, £5.17
A beautifully written account of young love and its vicissitudes set in 1930s England.
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Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud, £6.29
Two girls are taken to Morocco by their freedom-loving mother on a 1960s pilgrimage of self-discovery.
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Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth, £6.74
A summer romance between a poor boy and a wealthy girl tests the boundaries of love, suspicion and social class.
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Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, £4.99
A compelling tale of angst and alienation that follows the fragile psyche of a boy adrift in the seemingly uncaring city of Manhattan.
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To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, £3.46
A compelling bildungsroman that follows the lives of Jem and Scout Finch as they grow up in 1930s south America against a backdrop of social and racial tensions. Jem and Scout must learn to survive in the adult world of prejudice and injustice, whilst still keeping a grasp on their childhood morals.
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, £5.24
A classic adventure story about the trials and tribulations of a young boy who escapes the abuses of his drunken father, only to find himself struggling in a world where racism and social prejudice abound.
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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, £5.59
Amir and Hassan are childhood friends who grew up together in Kabul. Hassan will do anything to protect Amir until a terrible incident drives the boys apart. Political tensions in Afghanistan ensure that they cannot reunite, until Amir receives a mysterous phone call many years later asking for his help…
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Holes by Louis Sachar, £4.89
Holes is the story of a wrongfully accused young offender named Stanley Yelnats, who is sent to Camp Green Lake to work off his community service sentence. He spends every day digging holes in the Texan desert in an effort to ‘build character’. But Stanley soon learns that his hole-digging serves a different agenda.
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, £5.24
The heart-wrenching tale of three children – Ruth, Kathy and Tommy – who grew up in idyllic isolation from the rest of society, only to learn that at the turn of adulthood they will become organ donors for the national health service.
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