There is something for everyone here, but what they all have in common is that they are books about people on the verge of adult life and the choices that come with stepping over that threshold. I’m not going to tell you any more about them, read some, or all, of them and make up your own mind. With any luck, one will change your life. Some of them changed mine.
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Country Girls, Edna O’Brien
Before She Met Me, Julian Barnes
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Goodbye Columbus, Philip Roth
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
The L Shaped Room, Lynne Reid Banks
The Outsider, Albert Camus
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi
Invitation to the Waltz, Rosamond Lehmann
Frost in May, Antonia White
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote
A Room with a View, EM Forster
This Side of Paradise, F Scott Fitzgerald
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
Atonement, Ian McEwan
Girlfriend in a Coma , Douglas Coupland
Goodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
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