Coming of Age novels

[Sheeppig]

I always send my goddaughter a book for Christmas. She's now 13. Are there any good. "coming of age" books people can recommend? I have already given her the following:
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lord of the Flies
The Book Thief
I Capture the Castle
Any others, especially modern ones that I might not be aware of?

Catcher in the Rye - she might be a bit young for that though.

Perks of being a wallflower
Catcher in the rye

My 14 year old just read and enjoyed We have Always Lived In the Castle.

Little Women
Anne Of Green Gables
The Hunger Games (left field choice)

My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
Sula - Toni Morrison
Milkman - Anna Burns

Top Doll - Karen McCarthy Woolf

Childhood’s End - Arthur C. Ckarke (a different sort of coming of age)

Old but really good if you are after Coming of Age
Daddy Longlegs Jean Webster
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith

Cider with Rosie. I first read when about 13 and still love it now

Oh and, Oranges are not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson

Lots of good ones here already but I would add A Song for Ella Grey by the magnificent David Almond. It’s a YA novel based on the story of Orpheus and Eurydice and it’s exquisitely beautiful. I read it in my 40s and it took me right back to those heady days of youth…

Thank you- lots of great suggestions on here.

The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden
A Vicarage Family by Noel Streatfield
Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones, if she likes fantasy
A Long Way from Verona by Jane Gardam

What Katy Did

Good classics she might enjoy over the next few years:

Jane Eyre
David Copperfied
Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Have a google for “Bildungsroman novels for 13yr olds”, there’s lots.

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/young-adult-bildungsroman

Black Swan Green - long time ago I read it so can’t recall if it would be okay for a 13yo but I remember really enjoying it at the time

It might seem a strange suggestion but Fairytale by Stephen King. I just finished it and loved it. The first half is a well written coming of age story then it turns into fantasy. Some reviewers like one half or the other but I loved it all. My hardback copy was quite hefty but I got through it in 5 days. There’s some death but not the gory kind, it’s mentioned as something that happened rather than described in the moment in gory detail.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggins

'My Àntonia', Willa Cather
'Pride and Prejudice', Jane Austen
'I know why the caged bird sings', Maya Angelou (cheating because autobiography)
'The Country Girls', Edna O'Brien
'Brooklyn', Colm Tóibín
'The Voyage Out', Virginia Woolf

Frost in May by Antonia White
Dusty Answer by Rosamund Lehmann
Claudine at School by Colette
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

Bilgewater by Jane Gardam

Holes by Louis Sachar is wonderful
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Adrian Mole - I got a reluctant reader to read this. I thought it might be dated but he absolutely loved it and went on to read every single book in the series, having previously hated reading. It is still so funny.

Not sure if I have read this but she is one of my favourite authors. Old Filth is brilliant.