Time
Coming of Age Novels
- Little Women
Louisa May Alcott - Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte - The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane - Great Expectations
Charles Dickens - A Separate Peace
John Knowles - A Member of the Wedding
Carson McCullers - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce - The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger - Mansfield Park
Jane Austen - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Biographies and Memoirs
- I know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou - Warriors Don't Cry
Melba Beals - Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee
Charles J. Shields - Black Boy
Richard Wright
Great Depression
- The Bottoms
Joe R. Lansdale - The Lost Mother
Mary McGarry Morris - The Cape Ann
Faith Sullivan - Mason's Retreat
Christopher Tilghman
