https://pithybooks.com/tags/coming-of-age/ Latest Pithy Books summaries tagged “coming of age”. en Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:12:09 GMT https://pithybooks.com/books/a-thousand-boy-kisses/ https://pithybooks.com/books/a-thousand-boy-kisses/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Poppy and Rune bind promise jar kisses before illness parts them. https://pithybooks.com/books/assassins-apprentice/ https://pithybooks.com/books/assassins-apprentice/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Bastard Fitz trains Skill Wit as assassin for Buckkeep. https://pithybooks.com/books/my-dark-vanessa/ https://pithybooks.com/books/my-dark-vanessa/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Vanessa recalls teacher Strane abuse as adult reckoning looms. https://pithybooks.com/books/running-with-scissors/ https://pithybooks.com/books/running-with-scissors/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A boy sent to live with his mother's psychiatrist grows up in a chaotic house with no rules. https://pithybooks.com/books/shes-come-undone/ https://pithybooks.com/books/shes-come-undone/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Abused as a girl, divorced and struggling with weight, Dolores Price slowly finds healing after years of trauma. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-virgin-suicides/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-virgin-suicides/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Five Lisbon sisters die in 1970s Grosse Pointe as boys watch. https://pithybooks.com/books/their-eyes-were-watching-god/ https://pithybooks.com/books/their-eyes-were-watching-god/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Janie Crawford tells Pheoby about Eatonville life with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks called Jody, and Tea Cake. https://pithybooks.com/books/white-oleander/ https://pithybooks.com/books/white-oleander/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Astrid cycles foster homes after mother Ingrid murders boyfriend. https://pithybooks.com/books/credence/ https://pithybooks.com/books/credence/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT An orphaned teen spends a mountain winter with her guardian and his two sons, and lines blur. https://pithybooks.com/books/hatchet/ https://pithybooks.com/books/hatchet/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A plane crash leaves thirteen-year-old Brian alone in the Canadian wild with only a hatchet. https://pithybooks.com/books/will-grayson-will-grayson/ https://pithybooks.com/books/will-grayson-will-grayson/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Two Chicago teens with one name collide, with Tiny Cooper's musical stealing every scene. https://pithybooks.com/books/a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn/ https://pithybooks.com/books/a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Francie Nolan grows up poor in 1910s Williamsburg, reading on fire escapes while her family scrapes by, and learns how schooling can lift her out. https://pithybooks.com/books/all-quiet-on-the-western-front/ https://pithybooks.com/books/all-quiet-on-the-western-front/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Paul Bäumer enlists at nineteen and faces the trenches of World War I in Remarque's 1929 classic, told from the German side of the wire. https://pithybooks.com/books/anna-and-the-french-kiss/ https://pithybooks.com/books/anna-and-the-french-kiss/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Anna Oliphant is sent to Paris boarding school and falls for Etienne while misreading Bridget and Matt. https://pithybooks.com/books/better-than-the-movies/ https://pithybooks.com/books/better-than-the-movies/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A rom com obsessed senior hires her annoying next door neighbor to win her crush, then finds real love is messier and kinder than any movie plot. https://pithybooks.com/books/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/ https://pithybooks.com/books/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nine year old Oskar searches New York for a lock matching his father's key after 9/11. https://pithybooks.com/books/firefly-lane/ https://pithybooks.com/books/firefly-lane/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Best friends Tully and Kate grow from teens to adults through careers, love, and loss. https://pithybooks.com/books/heartstopper-volume-three/ https://pithybooks.com/books/heartstopper-volume-three/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nick and Charlie test honesty on a Paris trip while friends face exams, outings, and eating-disorder strain. https://pithybooks.com/books/if-he-had-been-with-me/ https://pithybooks.com/books/if-he-had-been-with-me/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Childhood friends Autumn and Finn drift apart in high school until one August night changes everything. https://pithybooks.com/books/kafka-on-the-shore/ https://pithybooks.com/books/kafka-on-the-shore/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Fifteen year old Kafka Tamura flees Tokyo while old Nakata, who talks to cats, drifts toward the same library town in Shikoku in parallel.