Bildungsroman+Texts

__The [|Bildungsroman] usually contains the following:__
In the Bildungsroman, the author presents the psychological, moral and social shaping of the personality of the — generally, young — protagonist. The Bildungsroman is regarded by some as a variation on the concept of the monomyth. Such themes are now often also portrayed in films (epitomic examples of which are The Matrix and Star Wars) and in animation.

Within the genre, an Entwicklungsroman is a story of general growth rather than self-culture; an Erziehungsroman focuses on training and formal education; and a Künstlerroman is about the development of an artist and shows a growth of the self.

The list below, is an exhaustive list of books that partially or fully conform to the Bildungsroman. [Pleae note: this list was compiled from the Wikipedia page]:


 * The Adventures of Augie March, by Saul Bellow (1953)
 * The Awakening, by Kate Chopin (1899)
 * Beka Lamb, by Zee Edgell (1982)
 * Beneath the Wheel, by Hermann Hesse (1906)
 * Black Swan Green, by David Mitchell (2006)
 * Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya (1972)
 * The Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe (1980–83)
 * Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko (1977)
 * The Chronicles of Prydain, by Lloyd Alexander (1964–73)
 * Citizen of the Galaxy, by Robert A. Heinlein (1957)
 * The Confusions of Young Törless, by Robert Musil (1906)
 * David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens (1850)
 * Demian, by Hermann Hesse (1919)
 * The Diamond Age, by Neil Stephenson (1995)
 * Emile: or, On Education, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762)
 * Emma, by Jane Austen (1816)
 * Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card (1985)
 * The Famished Road, by Ben Okri (1991)
 * The Favourite Game, by Leonard Cohen (1963)
 * The Fortress of Solitude, by Jonathan Lethem (2003)
 * Glamorama, by Bret Easton Ellis (1998)
 * The Go-Between, by L. P. Hartley (1953)
 * The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy (1997)
 * Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens (1860–61)
 * Green Henry, by Gottfried Keller (1855)
 * The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros (1984)
 * How Many Miles to Babylon?, by Jennifer Johnston (1974)
 * In the Beginning, by Chaim Potok (1975)
 * Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison (1952)
 * Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
 * Jean-Christophe, by Romain Rolland (1904–12)
 * The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, by Charles Dickens (1839)
 * The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
 * Lives of Girls and Women, by Alice Munro (1971)
 * Look Homeward, Angel, by Thomas Wolfe (1929)
 * The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold (2002)
 * Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis (1954)
 * The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann (1924)
 * Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe (1722)
 * My Name is Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok (1972)
 * Der Nachsommer, by Adalbert Stifter (1857)
 * The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri (2003)
 * Netochka Nezvanova, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1849)
 * Of Human Bondage, by Somerset Maugham (1915)
 * Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, by Jeanette Winterson (1985)
 * Out of the Shelter, by David Lodge (1970)
 * Peter Camenzind, by Hermann Hesse (1904)
 * Pharaoh, by Bolesław Prus (1895) 1
 * A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce (1916)
 * The Red and the Black, by Stendhal (1830)
 * The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd (2002)
 * A Separate Peace, by John Knowles (1959)
 * Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse (1922)
 * The Sorrow of Belgium, by Hugo Claus (1983)
 * Special Topics in Calamity Physics, by Marisha Pessl (2006)
 * Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
 * This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920)
 * The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger (2003)
 * The Tin Drum, by Günter Grass (1959)
 * Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding (1749)
 * A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith (1943)
 * Der Vorleser (The Reader), by Bernhard Schlink (1995)
 * The Wasp Factory, by Iain Banks (1984)
 * What Maisie Knew, by Henry James (1897)
 * Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, by J.W. Goethe, the paragon of the genre (1795)
 * Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson (1919)
 * The World Made Straight, by Ron Rash (2006)
 * Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie (1981) 2
 * The Moor's Last Sigh, by Salman Rushdie (1995) 3
 * Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
 * To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)

__Bildungsroman examples (pre-1930):__
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 maturity. These are examples from before 1930. See Bildungsroman examples (post-1930) for more recent examples.


 * the 13th century Hrafnkels saga
 * Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
 * Jane Austen, Emma
 * Pío Baroja, El árbol de la ciencia (1911) (Engl. transl. The Tree of Knowledge, 1928)
 * Leslie Barringer, Gerfalcon
 * L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
 * Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
 * Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
 * Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
 * Charlotte Brontë, Villette
 * Frances Burney, Evelina
 * Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio
 * Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
 * Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
 * Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
 * Charles Dickens, Bleak House
 * Charles Dickens, Little Dorritt
 * George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
 * Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest
 * Jeffrey Farnol, The Amateur Gentleman
 * Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
 * F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
 * Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, the paragon of the genre
 * Maxim Gorky, In the World
 * Maxim Gorky, My Universities
 * Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
 * Hermann Hesse, Demian
 * Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
 * Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
 * James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
 * D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
 * Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
 * Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
 * Robert Musil, The Confusions of Young Törless
 * Daniel Owen, Rhys Lewis
 * Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
 * Bolesław Prus, Pharaoh (1895)
 * Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (the tale told of the creature's development)
 * Stendhal, Le Rouge et le Noir
 * Stendhal, The Charterhouse of Parma
 * Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
 * Adalbert Stifter, Der Nachsommer
 * William Makepeace Thackery, The Luck of Barry Lyndon
 * William Makepeace Thackery, The History of Henry Esmond
 * Leo Tolstoy, Childhood/Boyhood/Youth trilogy
 * Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884–85)
 * Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter
 * Voltaire, Candide (1759)
 * Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
 * Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
 * Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall (a comic inversion of the Bildungsroman)
 * Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)