Fiction - Coming of Age

"Sally Franson is a world class entertainer. She can finesse a serio-comic moment in a way that leaves you catching your breath. Deft and delicious, this book is a flat out delight machine. A heart opener, a page turner, and a true 'originell!' I...

A wickedly funny coming-of-age novel about a misfit teenager in London determined to eliminate the one thing standing between her and a good life: her father "Hands down the funniest, most original novel I've read in ages."--Grant Ginder, author of The People We Hate...

To open this book is to enter the perilous, thrilling world of Billy Bathgate, the brazen boy who is accepted into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang. Like an urban Tom Sawyer, Billy takes us along on his fateful adventures as...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Flowers in the Attic and Landry series--now popular Lifetime movies--an evocative and tender tale of star-crossed lovers on an isolated island. Off the coast of Maine, on an island shaped like a seagull in...

2007. Conrad, Maryland is still smarting from its economic collapse thirty years prior, and Birdy Cleary and her family arrive in town nursing wounds of their own. But there's a miracle on Victoria Street-the Clearys' new neighbors, the Doppelskis, just founded a microscopic and...

Combining the political intrigue of She Who Became the Sun with the gorgeous world-building of Children of Blood and Bone, Birth of a Dynasty is the start of a thrilling epic fantasy trilogy centered around three families' fight for power in Ahkebulin, a land...

True love comes from the most forbidden places in this TikTok smash hit from New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas, now with bonus material! Jordan has nowhere else to go when her boyfriend offers to let her move in with him and his...

A young book publicist finds herself in an all-consuming workplace affair with her literary idol in this "very impressive debut" (Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of the Dark). "Beautifully crafted, with aftershocks of conscience that will leave you...

"Tremendously deft . . . it had me laughing, unnerved, and hopeful as it galloped through a true and strange world." --Emily Nemens, bestselling author of The Cactus League An out-of-work actor accepts the role of a lifetime--sitting soundlessly in a lecture theater, zipped...

Betty meets Queenie in this courageous coming-of-age story about a Black girl fighting for recognition in a South Carolina Cherokee community that refuses to accept her ancestry as legitimate. Ophelia Blue Rivers is a descendent of Cherokee Freedmen: Blacks formerly enslaved by rich southern...

In Erica Kent's evocative novel Black Dog, we journey through the turbulent landscapes of adolescence, loss, and the blurry lines between reality and dream. It's 1980, and eleven-year-old Jessica Ryder wakes up to discover that John Lennon has been killed. In a misguided effort...

Romance, deception, and murder erupt when the use of modern-day practices pits one farmer who has faith in the ancient wisdom of husbandry against another who uses chemicals, mistreats his animals, and exploits farm workers, while the son of the first and the daughter...

The semiautobiographical Caribbean novel that explores shifting race relations in early twentieth-century colonial Martinique, with a foreword by Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau A Penguin Classic Following in the tradition of Richard Wright's Black Boy, Joseph Zobel's semiautobiographical 1950 novel Black Shack Alley chronicles the...

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Selected by Time as One of the Ten Best Books of the Year A New York Times Notable Book Named One of the Best...

"Babitz's talent for the brilliant line, honed to a point, never interferes with her feel for languid pleasures." --The New York Times Book Review A new reissue of Babitz's collection of nine stories that look back on the 1980s and early 1990s--decades of dreams,...

One of Charles Dickens's most critically admired novels, this story of a monumental and life-consuming court case features one of his most vast and varied casts of colorful characters. In Bleak House, competing claims of love and inheritance--complicated by murder--have given rise to a...

Full of "sensual dreams [and] unexplained phenomena," this "best-known and most-respected" coming-of-age classic from the godfather of Chicano literature follows a young boy growing up in the llano, or plains, of post-World War II New Mexico, and the generous curandera who introduces him to...

A collectible hardcover 50th-anniversary edition of the bestselling Chicano novel of all time, featuring a new foreword by Erika L. Sánchez, the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter One of America's 100 Most-Loved Books PBS's The Great...

"Chukwuebuka Ibeh's writing has a certain delicacy to it, so wonderfully observant, and so beautiful." --Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Americanah Moonlight meets Purple Hibiscus in this searing debut of self-acceptance, sexual awakening, and first love set in a Nigeria on the verge of...

Author: Ankur ThakkarPublisher: Triquarterly BooksPublished: 09/15/2026Pages: 232Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.04h x 5.21w x 0.72dISBN: 9798899480645Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 07/27/2026About the AuthorANKUR THAKKAR is a writer and multimedia artist whose stories have appeared in Guernica, [PANK], and TriQuarterly. He was a 2025 Sewanee Writers'...