Bildungsroman examples (post-1930)
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This list extends the examples of Bildungsroman contained in the main article. These are novels that trace the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character from (usually) childhood to a mature relationship with society. These are examples post 1930. See Bildungsroman examples (pre-1930) for more examples.
- Abha Dawesar, Babyji
- Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
- Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
- Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One and Four Fires
- Camilo Jose Cela, La familia de Pascual Duarte (The Family of Pascual Duarte)
- Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- Chaim Potok, The Chosen
- Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing
- Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
- Doris Lessing, Children of Violence Series (Martha Quest, A Proper Marriage, A Ripple from the Storm, Landlocked, The Four-Gated City)
- Edith Templeton, The Island of Desire
- Frank O'Connor, An Only Child
- A.J. Cronin, The Green Years
- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore
- Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
- Hisham Matar, In The Country of Men
- Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory, The Crow Road
- Jack Vance, Maske: Thaery
- Janet Fitch, White Oleander
- Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
- Jerzy Kosinski, The Painted Bird
- John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor
- John Fowles, Daniel Martin
- John Irving, The Cider House Rules
- John Knowles, A Separate Peace
- John Ringo and David Weber, Empire of Man series
- Kosmas Politis, Eroica
- Leonard Cohen, The Favourite Game
- Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song
- Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast Novels (unfinished)
- Michael McClure, The Mad Cub
- Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
- Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
- Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age
- Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
- Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
- Paul Auster, Moon Palace
- Peter Goldsworthy, Maestro
- Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint
- Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
- Richard Wright, Black Boy
- Roger Zelazny, Chronicles of Amber
- Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
- Shannon Hale, Princess Academy
- Sherman Alexie, Smoke Signals
- Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Terry Pratchett, Mort
- Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons
- Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
- Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions
- Ursula K. LeGuin, The Earthsea Cycle (series).
- William Boyd, Any Human Heart
- William Maxwell,The Folded Leaf
- Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie (1981)[1]
- The Moor's Last Sigh, by Salman Rushdie (1995)[2]
[edit] References
- ^ ten Kortenaar: Self, Nation, Text in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children [Indologica]
- ^ BOOKS OF THE TIMES;Rushdie On India: Serious, Crammed Yet Light - New York Times
