Bildungsroman examples (pre-1930)

the 13th century Hrafnkels saga
Louisa May Alcott's Little Women
Jane Austen's Emma
L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë's Villette
Frances Burney's Evelina
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Netochka Nezvanova
Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders
Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival
Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther
Maxim Gorky's In the World
Maxim Gorky's My Universities
Hermann Hesse's Demian
Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf
Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain
Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage
Robert Musil's The Confusions of Young Törless
Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time
Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho
Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy
Leo Tolstoy's Childhood/Boyhood/Youth trilogy
Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace
Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail
Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter
Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out
Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio