Editing Bildungsroman (section)

===20th century===
* ''[[Kim (novel)|Kim]]'' by [[Rudyard Kipling]] (1901)<ref>{{cite journal |author=Esty, Jed |title=Unseasonable Youth: Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development |journal=Oxford Scholarship Online |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford, UK |year=2012 |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195305746.013.0030 |isbn=978-0-19-985797-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yeFoAgAAQBAJ |access-date=18 March 2023 |archive-date=13 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230513065721/https://books.google.com/books?id=yeFoAgAAQBAJ |url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[Beneath the Wheel]]'' by [[Hermann Hesse]], 1906
* ''[[Martin Eden]]'' by [[Jack London]] (1909)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.enotes.com/martin-eden-salem/martin-eden-11000305 |title=Martin Eden Summary&nbsp;– Jack London&nbsp;– Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition |publisher=Enotes.com |access-date=21 April 2011 |archive-date=3 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003185134/http://www.enotes.com/martin-eden-salem/martin-eden-11000305 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[The Book of Khalid]]'' by [[Ameen Rihani]] (1911)<ref>{{cite journal |author=Nash, Geoffrey |title=Ameen Rihani's ''The Book of Khalid'' and the Voice of Thomas Carlyle |journal=New Comparison Journal |issue=17 |publisher= The British Comparative Literature Association, University of Essex |location=Colchester, UK |year=1994}}</ref>
* ''[[Sons and Lovers]]'' by [[D. H. Lawrence]] (1913)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.enotes.com/sons-lovers/lawrences-novel-bildungsroman |title=Sons and Lovers Lawrence's novel as a Bildungsroman |publisher=Enotes.com |access-date=21 April 2011 |archive-date=27 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100727000916/http://www.enotes.com/sons-lovers/lawrences-novel-bildungsroman |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''[[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]]'' by [[James Joyce]] (1916)<ref name="Werlock2010p387"/>{{sfn|Stević|Prendergast|2017|p=433}}
* ''[[Demian]]'' by [[Hermann Hesse]] (1919)<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095709588| title = Demian - Oxford Reference| access-date = 28 October 2021| archive-date = 28 October 2021| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211028184949/https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095709588| url-status = live}}</ref>
* ''[[This Side of Paradise]]'' by [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] (1920)<ref>{{cite book |author=Hendriksen, Jack |title=This side of paradise as a Bildungsroman |year=1993 |publisher=P. Lang |isbn=0-8204-1852-8}}</ref>
* ''[[The Magic Mountain]]'' by [[Thomas Mann]] (1924){{sfn|Stević|Prendergast|2017|p=433}}
* {{Lang|bn-latn|[[Pather Panchali (novel)|Pather Panchali]]}} by [[Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay]] (1929)<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Mukherjee |given1=Meenakshi |year=1985 |title=Realism and Reality: The Novel and Society in India |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-561648-0 |page=[https://archive.org/details/trent_0116401039932/page/128 128] |url=https://archive.org/details/trent_0116401039932/page/128}}</ref>
* ''[[Their Eyes Were Watching God]]'' by [[Zora Neale Hurston]] (1937)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Tredell |first=Nicolas |date=1 July 2017 |title=Minglings: Form, Style, and Theme in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lkh&AN=127171076&lang=es&site=eds-live&scope=site |format=PDF |journal=Critical Approaches to Literature |pages=92–106 |quote=In her introduction to the 1986 Virago edition, Holly Eley calls it “primarily a love story” and also “an account of a strong, intelligent (though uneducated) woman’s steps towards self-fulfilment” (Hurston vii). In generic terms, this latter definition would make Hurston’s novel a Bildungsroman, a story of (self-)education by life. |via=The Wikipedia Library}}</ref>
* ''[[The Catcher in the Rye]]'' by [[J. D. Salinger]] (1951)<ref name="thetop2">{{cite web |url=http://www.thetop13.com/coming-of-age-novels-L45/ |title=The Top 13 Coming-of-Age Novels |publisher=The Top 13 |date=9 December 2009 |access-date=21 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101225085020/http://thetop13.com/coming-of-age-novels-L45/ |archive-date=25 December 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''[[Invisible Man]]'' by [[Ralph Ellison]], (1952)
* ''[[Children of Violence]]'' by [[Doris Lessing]] (1952–1969)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/bio-bibl.html|title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 – Bio-bibliography|website=www.nobelprize.org|access-date=19 March 2018|archive-date=24 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160224234101/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/bio-bibl.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[In the Castle of My Skin]]'' by [[George Lamming]] (1953)<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Lamming#ref669217 "George Lamming, West Indian author"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220602160730/https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Lamming#ref669217 |date=2 June 2022 }}, ''Encyclopædia Britannica''</ref>
* ''[[A Separate Peace]]'' by [[John Knowles]] (1959)
* ''[[Goodbye, Columbus]]'' by [[Philip Roth]] (1959)<ref>{{cite book |last=Kercheval |first=Jesse Lee |title=Building Fiction |publisher=The Story Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/buildingfictionh0000kerc/page/101 101] |chapter=Continuing Conflict |year=1997 |isbn=1-884910-28-9 |chapter-url-access=registration |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/buildingfictionh0000kerc/page/101}}</ref>
* ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'' by [[Harper Lee]] (1960)<ref name="thetop2" />
* ''[[Wake in Fright (novel)|Wake in Fright]]'' by [[Kenneth Cook]] (1961)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Peters-Little |first1=Frances |last2=Curthoys |first2=Ann |last3=Docker |first3=John |title=Passionate Histories: Myth, Memory and Indigenous Australia |publisher=ANU E Press |page=62 |chapter=Epistemological vertigo and allegory |date=September 2010 |isbn=9781921666650 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EJMwU1kqo7sC&pg=PA62 |access-date=18 March 2023 |archive-date=26 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230426102151/https://books.google.com/books?id=EJMwU1kqo7sC&pg=PA62 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''[[The Emperor of Ice-Cream (novel)|The Emperor of Ice-Cream]]'' by [[Brian Moore (novelist)|Brian Moore]] (1965)<ref name = Hicks>{{cite journal |author=Hicks, Patrick |author-link=Patrick Hicks | title=History and Masculinity in Brian Moore's 'The Emperor of Ice-Cream'|journal=The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies|volume= 25|number= 1/2 |date= July–December 1999|pages=400–413| doi=10.2307/25515283| jstor=25515283}}</ref>
* ''[[Dune (novel)|Dune]]'' by [[Frank Herbert]] (1965)<ref>{{cite journal|last=McGregor|first=Gaile|url=http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/t_echmyth.html|title=The Technomyth in Transition: Reading American Popular Culture|journal=Journal of American Studies|year=1987|volume=21|issue=3|pages=387–409|doi=10.1017/S0021875800022891|s2cid=145732487|access-date=12 April 2012|archive-date=17 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130417180715/http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/t_echmyth.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''[[The Outsiders (novel)|The Outsiders]]'' by [[S. E. Hinton]] (1967)<ref name="Kinchen2006">{{cite web|author=Melanie Kinchen|url=http://www.lsu.edu/faculty/jpullia/3223bildungsroman.htm|title=Bildungsroman Novels for Young Adults|date=13 July 2006|display-authors=etal|access-date=12 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120428031138/http://www.lsu.edu/faculty/jpullia/3223bildungsroman.htm|archive-date=28 April 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''[[A Wizard of Earthsea]]'' by [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] (1968)<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/spring96/griffin.html |title=Ursula LeGuin's Magical World of Earthsea |journal=The ALAN Review |volume=23 |issue=3 |access-date=10 June 2013 |last1=Griffin |first1=Jan M. |archive-date=16 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110416041245/http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/spring96/griffin.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''[[Bright Lights, Big City (novel)|Bright Lights, Big City]]'' by [[Jay McInerney]] (1984)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.randomhouse.com/kvpa/mcinerney/introduction_to_the_good_life_and_jays_tour.html |title=The Good Life |author=Jay McInerney |work=transcript of podcast |access-date=3 January 2013 |archive-date=8 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130208035442/http://www.randomhouse.com/kvpa/mcinerney/introduction_to_the_good_life_and_jays_tour.html |url-status=live }}</ref><!-- why is this ref pertinent to McInerney's earlier book? -->
* ''[[How to Kill a Bull]]'' by [[Anna-Leena Härkönen]] (1984)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.is.fi/viihde/art-2000006555690.html|title=Anna-Leena Härkönen oli teini kirjoittaessaan Häräntappoaseen, mutta onnistui silti kohauttamaan – seksikohtaukset saivat jopa oman mummon häpeämään|trans-title=Anna-Leena Härkönen was a teenager when she wrote 'How to Kill a Bull', but she still managed to make people shock – the sex scenes even put her own grandmother to shame!|first=Eeva-Kaarina|last=Kolsi|work=[[Ilta-Sanomat]]|date=29 June 2020|access-date=29 February 2024|language=fi}}</ref>
* ''[[Ender's Game]]'' by [[Orson Scott Card]] (1985)<ref name="Kinchen2006"/>
* ''[[Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit]]'' by [[Jeanette Winterson]] (1985)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/oranges/context.html |title=Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: Context |website=Sparknotes |date=27 August 1959 |access-date=21 April 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110503021102/http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/oranges/context.html |archive-date= 3 May 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref>
* ''[[Norwegian Wood (novel)|Norwegian Wood]]'' by [[Haruki Murakami]] (1987)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/07/norwegian-wood-on-having-a-girl-and-losing-her/60340/ |title=Norwegian Wood: On Having a Girl, and Losing Her |first=Alyssa |last=Rosenberg |date=30 July 2010 |website=[[The Atlantic Monthly]] |access-date=5 March 2017 |archive-date=13 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170613193539/https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/07/norwegian-wood-on-having-a-girl-and-losing-her/60340/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''[[English Music (novel)|English Music]]'' by [[Peter Ackroyd]] (1992)<ref>{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=mRWtSWDXBn8C&q=%22english+music%22+ackroyd&pg=PA66 |title=My Words Echo Thus: Possessing the Past in Peter Ackroyd |first=Barry |last=Lewis |isbn=978-1570036682 |publisher=[[University of South Carolina Press]] |year=2007}}</ref>
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'' by [[J. K. Rowling]] (1997–2007)<ref>{{cite web |title=Bildungsroman Novels: Definition and Examples | date=22 January 2021 |url=https://www.tckpublishing.com/bildungsroman-novels/#:~:text=Is%20Harry%20Potter%20a%20Bildungsroman%3F%20When%20viewed%20as,sad%2C%20lonely%20child%20to%20a%20full-fledged%2C%20heroic%20wizard.}}</ref>
* ''[[The Perks of Being a Wallflower]]'' by [[Stephen Chbosky]] (1999)<ref>{{cite web |title=An Interview with Stephen Chbosky |url=http://www.wordriot.org/template.php?ID=552 |work=Word Riot |access-date=27 May 2012 |author=Marty Beckerman |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050113162049/http://wordriot.org/template.php?ID=552 |archive-date=13 January 2005 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''[[Naruto]]'' by [[Masashi Kishimoto]] (1999)<ref>{{cite web|title=Naruto is the quintessential Bildungsroman|url=https://www.lawrentian.com/archives/1011992|date=2 February 2018|publisher=[[The Lawrentian]]|access-date=7 June 2020|archive-date=8 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200608014125/https://www.lawrentian.com/archives/1011992|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[Persepolis (comics)|Persepolis]]'' by [[Marjane Satrapi]] (2000)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tip.sas.upenn.edu/curriculum/units/2011/04/11.04.02.pdf |work=John Bartram High School |title=Reading Persepolis: Defining and Redefining Culture, Gender and Genre |author=Tara Ann Carter |date=6 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128034643/http://www.tip.sas.upenn.edu/curriculum/units/2011/04/11.04.02.pdf |archive-date=28 January 2018 |url-status=dead |access-date=6 October 2013}}</ref>