Besides the (in)famous Catcher in the Rye, what other "coming-of-age novels" have you read and would recommend?

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I think bildungsroman novels are usually dull, but one that stood out as very vivid for me was Cold Sassy Tree. It was rather depressing, simplistic, preachy, and took place in a comically apolitical, idealized early 20th century Amerikan South.

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