The best coming of age books of 1970s (chosen by coming of age authors)

Loved by 20 people

Watership Down

By Richard Adams ,

Loved by 6 people

The House of God

By Samuel Shem ,

Loved by 6 people

Orlando

By Virginia Woolf ,

Loved by 4 people

The Great Gilly Hopkins

By Katherine Paterson ,

Fourteen

By Leslie Johansen Nack ,

Black River

By Yvonne Osborne ,

Loved by 4 people

A High Wind in Jamaica

By Richard Hughes ,

Loved by 4 people

No Longer Human

By Osamu Dazai , Donald Keene (translator) ,

Fourteen

By Leslie Johansen Nack ,

Black River

By Yvonne Osborne ,

The Aphorism Club

By Tracey Lee ,

Loved by 3 people

The Cement Garden

By Ian McEwan ,

Loved by 2 people

Paper Moon

By Joe David Brown ,

Fourteen

By Leslie Johansen Nack ,

Black River

By Yvonne Osborne ,

The Aphorism Club

By Tracey Lee ,

Ignorance Is Glitch

By Anna Travis ,

Loved by 2 people

Lives of Girls and Women

By Alice Munro ,

Loved by 2 people

The Beggar Maid

By Alice Munro ,

The Aphorism Club

By Tracey Lee ,

Ignorance Is Glitch

By Anna Travis ,

Fourteen

By Leslie Johansen Nack ,

Black River

By Yvonne Osborne ,

The Aphorism Club

By Tracey Lee ,

Ignorance Is Glitch

By Anna Travis ,

Blood Moon

By Evelyn M. Exley ,

Loved by 2 people

Killing Mr. Griffin

By Lois Duncan ,

Loved by 2 people

I Know What You Did Last Summer

By Lois Duncan-Arquette ,

Loved by 2 people

Edwin Mullhouse

By Steven Millhauser ,

Loved by 1 person

The Parasites

By Daphne du Maurier ,

Fourteen

By Leslie Johansen Nack ,

Black River

By Yvonne Osborne ,

The Aphorism Club

By Tracey Lee ,

Ignorance Is Glitch

By Anna Travis ,

Blood Moon

By Evelyn M. Exley ,

The Sherangivan

By Jacqueline Fellows ,

Truth Sister

By Phil Gilvin ,

Loved by 1 person

The Lying Days

By Nadine Gordimer ,

Ignorance Is Glitch

By Anna Travis ,

Blood Moon

By Evelyn M. Exley ,

The Sherangivan

By Jacqueline Fellows ,

Loved by 1 person

Black Tickets

By Jayne Anne Phillips ,

Blood Moon

By Evelyn M. Exley ,

The Sherangivan

By Jacqueline Fellows ,

Loved by 1 person

The Favourite Game

By Leonard Cohen ,

Loved by 1 person

Who Has Seen the Wind

By W.O. Mitchell ,

Loved by 1 person

Dreamland Lake

By Richard Peck ,

Loved by 1 person

Martha Quest

By Doris Lessing ,

Blood Moon

By Evelyn M. Exley ,

The Sherangivan

By Jacqueline Fellows ,

Truth Sister

By Phil Gilvin ,

Child of Vanris

By Nikki McCormack ,

Fourteen

By Leslie Johansen Nack ,

Black River

By Yvonne Osborne ,

The Aphorism Club

By Tracey Lee ,

Ignorance Is Glitch

By Anna Travis ,

Blood Moon

By Evelyn M. Exley ,

The Sherangivan

By Jacqueline Fellows ,

Truth Sister

By Phil Gilvin ,

Child of Vanris

By Nikki McCormack ,

Fried Chicken Castañeda

By Suzanne Stauffer ,

The Glass Field

By Guy Burt ,

Loved by 1 person

Farnham's Freehold

By Robert A. Heinlein ,

Loved by 1 person

Summer of '42

By Herman Raucher ,

Truth Sister

By Phil Gilvin ,

Child of Vanris

By Nikki McCormack ,

Loved by 1 person

The Rachel Papers

By Martin Amis ,

Loved by 1 person

Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice?

By Paula Danziger ,

Truth Sister

By Phil Gilvin ,

Child of Vanris

By Nikki McCormack ,

Fried Chicken Castañeda

By Suzanne Stauffer ,

Loved by 1 person

Dancer from the Dance

By Andrew Holleran ,

The Sherangivan

By Jacqueline Fellows ,

Truth Sister

By Phil Gilvin ,

Child of Vanris

By Nikki McCormack ,

Fried Chicken Castañeda

By Suzanne Stauffer ,

The Glass Field

By Guy Burt ,

Loved by 1 person

Ultramarine

By Malcolm Lowry ,

Loved by 1 person

Endless Love

By Scott Spencer ,

Fourteen

By Leslie Johansen Nack ,

Black River

By Yvonne Osborne ,

The Aphorism Club

By Tracey Lee ,

Ignorance Is Glitch

By Anna Travis ,

Blood Moon

By Evelyn M. Exley ,

The Sherangivan

By Jacqueline Fellows ,

Truth Sister

By Phil Gilvin ,

Child of Vanris

By Nikki McCormack ,

Fried Chicken Castañeda

By Suzanne Stauffer ,

The Glass Field

By Guy Burt ,

Upon the Corner of the Moon

By Valerie Nieman ,

The Birthright of Sons

By Jefferey Spivey ,

Children of the Wandering House

By Lois Wickstrom ,

Rooted in Sunrise

By Beth Dotson Brown ,

The Improbable Wonders of Moojie Littleman

By Robin Gregory ,

The best coming of age books of the 1970s

The books our community loved the most.

Watership Down

The House of God

Orlando

The Great Gilly Hopkins

Books from our members

Fourteen

Black River

A High Wind in Jamaica

No Longer Human

Books from our members

Fourteen

Black River

The Aphorism Club

The Cement Garden

Paper Moon

Books from our members

Fourteen

Black River

The Aphorism Club

Ignorance Is Glitch

Lives of Girls and Women

The Beggar Maid

Books from our members

The Aphorism Club

Ignorance Is Glitch

Books from our members

Fourteen

Black River

The Aphorism Club

Ignorance Is Glitch

Blood Moon

Killing Mr. Griffin

I Know What You Did Last Summer

Edwin Mullhouse

The Parasites

Books from our members

Fourteen

Black River

The Aphorism Club

Ignorance Is Glitch

Blood Moon

The Sherangivan

Truth Sister

The Lying Days

Books from our members

Ignorance Is Glitch

Blood Moon

The Sherangivan

Black Tickets

Books from our members

Blood Moon

The Sherangivan

The Favourite Game

Who Has Seen the Wind

Dreamland Lake

Martha Quest

Books from our members

Blood Moon

The Sherangivan

Truth Sister

Child of Vanris

Books from our members

Fourteen

Black River

The Aphorism Club

Ignorance Is Glitch

Blood Moon

The Sherangivan

Truth Sister

Child of Vanris

Fried Chicken Castañeda

The Glass Field

Farnham's Freehold

Summer of '42

Books from our members

Truth Sister

Child of Vanris

The Rachel Papers