Goodreads.com – the world’s leading site for books, readers and reviewers – has some amazing lists.
Here’s its Top 100 list for ‘Great coming-of-age books’: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3713.Great_Coming_Of_Age_Books#
And here’s the Top 10 (below) as at 9 October 2012 PST:
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The Orphan Factory (The Orphan Trilogy, #2) by James Morcan   4.60 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger  3.75 avg rating — 883,250 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee  4.21 avg rating — 1,194,930 ratings
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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 3.64 avg rating — 177,415 ratings
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 4.05 avg rating — 517,486 ratings
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 3.75 avg rating — 605,412 ratings
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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume 3.86 avg rating — 72,491 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) by L.M. Montgomery 4.21 avg rating — 200,602 ratings
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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 3.95 avg rating — 605,241 ratings
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Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh 3.97 avg rating — 33,541 ratings
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(Points are based on the ranking of the book on each list and the number of people have voted for it. A book’s “score” is the total).
Morcan Books & Films 