Bildungsroman examples (post-1930)

Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim
Paul Auster' Moon Palace
Iain Banks' The Crow Road
Pío Baroja's El árbol de la ciencia (Tree of Knowledge)
Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March
Camilo Jose Cela's La familia de Pascual Duarte (The Family of Pascual Duarte)
Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Pat Conroy's The Lords of Discipline
Bryce Courtenay's The Power of One and Four Fires
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
John Fowles' Daniel Martin
Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha
Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song
Alasdair Gray's Lanark
Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty
Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
John Knowles' A Separate Peace
Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing
Michael McClure's The Mad Cub
Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer
Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
Frank O'Connor's An Only Child
Sylvia Plath's the Bell Jar
Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials
Mordecai Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
John Ringo and David Weber's Empire of Man series
J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
Zadie Smith's White Teeth
Jack Vance's Maske: Thaery
Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons