Coming-of-age stories focus on the growth of a protagonist from childhood to adulthood, although "coming of age" is a genre for a variety of media, including literature, theatre, film, television and video games.

In literature

• The Telemachy in Homer's Odyssey (8th century BC) • Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, by Ibn Tufail (12th century) • The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, by Henry Fielding (1749) • The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne (1759) • Candide, by Voltaire (1759) • Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen (1817) • Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens (1837–1839) • Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens (1860–1861) • Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott (1868–1869) • Little Men, by Louisa May Alcott (1871) • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain (1876) • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (1884–1885) • The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1894) • The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane (1894–1895) • The Blue Lagoon, by Henry De Vere Stacpoole (1908) • Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1908) • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916) • All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque (1929) • Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston (1937) • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers (1940) • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith (1943) • Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes (1943) • The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger (1951) • East of Eden, by John Steinbeck (1952) • Old Yeller, by Fred Gipson (1956) • The Baron in the Trees, by Italo Calvino (1957) • Flowers for Algernon, short story and novel by Daniel Keyes (short story 1959, novel 1966) • To Kill a Mockingbird, novel by Harper Lee (1960) • Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls (1961) • A Clockwork Orange, a novel by Anthony Burgess (1962) • The Learning Tree, novel by Gordon Parks (1963) • The Graduate, novel by Charles Webb (1963) • The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath (1964) • The Last Picture Show, by Larry McMurtry (1966) • The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton (1967) • Last Summer, by Evan Hunter (1968) • Sounder, by William H. Armstrong (1969) • A Day No Pigs Would Die, by Robert Newton Peck (1972) • A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich, by Alice Childress (1973) • Ordinary People, by Judith Guest (1976) • A River Runs Through It, by Norman Maclean (1976) • Vision Quest, by Terry Davis (1979) • The Body, short story by Stephen King (1982) • The Color Purple, by Alice Walker (1982) • The Sheep-Pig, by Dick King-Smith (1983) • Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card (1985) • It, by Stephen King (1986) • This Boy's Life, memoirs by Tobias Wolff (1989) • What's Eating Gilbert Grape, by Peter Hedges (1991) • The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides (1993) • Ghost World, graphic novel by Daniel Clowes (1993–1997) • The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, novel by Chris Fuhrman (1994) • The Zigzag Kid, by David Grossman (1994) • Into the Widening World, a collection of 26 short fictional coming-of-age stories by 26 notable authors (published 1995) • Harry Potter, by J.K. Rowling (1997–2007) • The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky (1999) • Alex Rider, by Anthony Horowitz (2000–till date) • The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Ann Brashares (2001) • Life of Pi, by Yann Martel (2001) • Invincible, by Robert Kirkman (2003–2018) • The Power of Five, by Anthony Horowitz (2005–2012) • Winter's Bone, by Daniel Woodrell (2006) • Call Me by Your Name, by André Aciman (2007) • Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, by Peter Cameron (2007) • The Enola Holmes Mysteries: The Case of the Missing Marquess, by Nancy Springer (2007) • The Name of the Wind and the rest of The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss (2007–present) • Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain by Derek Landy (2007–2014; 2017–present) • Goodnight Punpun, by Inio Asano (2007) • Paper Towns, by John Green (2008) • Homestuck, by Andrew Hussie (2009-04-13 to 2016-04-13) • The Summer I Turned Pretty, by Jenny Han (2009–2011) • The Miseducation of Cameron Post, by Emily M. Danforth (2012) • Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, by Jesse Andrews (2012) • Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, by Becky Albertalli (2015) • Boy Erased: A Memoir, by Garrard Conley (2016) • Bones & All, novel by Camille DeAngelis (2015) • The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas (2017) • Boy Swallows Universe, by Trent Dalton (2018) • Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel, by Val Emmich with Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (2018) • The Prom: The Novel, by Saundra Mitchell with Matthew Sklar, Chad Beguelin and Bob Martin (2019)

In theatre

In Manga and Anime

A large portion of the manga industry is dedicated to teenagers, such as Weekly Shōnen Jump and Weekly Shōnen Magazine and, therefore, a majority of said manga contains some aspects of the protagonist's growth. Coming-of-age stories are called Shujinkō-Seichōkei (主人公成長系), meaning "protagonist's growth type".

Manga

Anime

In film

In film, coming-of-age is a genre of teen films. Films in this subgenre include: • Little Women (1933) • Anne of Green Gables (1934) • Captains Courageous (1937) • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939) • The Wizard of Oz (1939) • Babes in Arms (1939) • Pinocchio (1940) • Little Men (1940) • Bambi (1942) • The Human Comedy (1943) • Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) • Great Expectations (1946) • Oliver Twist (1948) • The Blue Lagoon (1949) • Cattle Drive (1951) • The Red Badge of Courage (1951) • East of Eden (1955) • Rebel Without a Cause (1955) • The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959) • Old Yeller (1957) • Johnny Tremain (1957) • The House of the Angel (1957) • The 400 Blows (1959) • West Side Story (1961) • To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) • David and Lisa (1962) • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968) • Oliver! (1968) • Romeo and Juliet (1968) • Kes (1969) • Last Summer (1969) • The Learning Tree (1969) • The Last Picture Show (1971) • Summer of '42 (1971) • Walkabout (1971) • Sounder (1972) • American Graffiti (1973) • Badlands (1973) • Tom Sawyer (1973) • Huckleberry Finn (1974) • Where the Red Fern Grows (1974) • Cooley High (1975) • Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975) • the original Star Wars movie trilogy (1977–1983) • Saturday Night Fever (1977) • A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich (1978) • Big Wednesday (1978) • Grease (1978) • Bloodbrothers (1978) • Breaking Away (1979) • Over the Edge (1979) • Fame (1980) • Foxes (1980) • Ordinary People (1980) • The Blue Lagoon (1980) • Endless Love (1981) • Gregory's Girl (1981) • The Fox and the Hound (1981) • The Last American Virgin (1982) • Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) • Flashdance (1983) • The Outsiders (1983) • Risky Business (1983) • Rumble Fish (1983) • Footloose (1984) • Sixteen Candles (1984) • The Karate Kid (1984) • The Bay Boy (1984) • The Color Purple (1985) • the Back to the Future movie trilogy (1985–1990) • The Breakfast Club (1985) • Fandango (1985) • Heaven Help Us (1985) also known as Catholic Boys • Mischief (1985) • Vision Quest (1985) • Pretty in Pink (1986) • Stand by Me (1986) • Some Kind of Wonderful (1987) • Empire of the Sun (1987) • Running on Empty (1988) • Stand and Deliver (1988) • Stealing Home (1988) • Big (1988) • Heathers (1988) • The Delinquents (1989) • Dead Poets Society (1989) • Say Anything... (1989) • The Little Mermaid (1989) • A Brighter Summer Day (1989) • Mermaids (1990) • My Own Private Idaho (1991) • Dogfight (1991) • Boyz n the Hood (1991) • The Man in the Moon (1991) • Flirting (1991) • A River Runs Through It (1992) • A Bronx Tale (1993) • Menace II Society (1993) • Dazed and Confused (1993) • This Boy's Life (1993) • What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) • The Man Without a Face (1993) • The Thief and the Cobbler (1993) • The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993) • There Goes My Baby (1994) • Little Women (1994) • The War (1994) • The Lion King (1994) • Babe (1995) • The Basketball Diaries (1995) • Empire Records (1995) • Kids (1995) • Clueless (1995) • Whisper of the Heart (1995) • Tom and Huck (1995) • Romeo + Juliet (1996) • Titanic (1997) • Telling Lies in America (1997) • All I Wanna Do (1998) • 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) • The Virgin Suicides (1999) • The Wood (1999) • The Iron Giant (1999) • American Beauty (1999) • Girl, Interrupted (1999) • Almost Famous (2000) • Billy Elliot (2000) • Girlfight (2000) • Bring It On (2000) • How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) • Y tu mamá también (2001) • Spirited Away (2001) • The Princess Diaries (2001) • Dil Chahta Hai (2001) • the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011) • The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002) • Bend It Like Beckham (2002) • Better Luck Tomorrow (2002) • Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) • Thirteen (2003) • The Motorcycle Diaries (2003) • Napoleon Dynamite (2004) • House of D (2004) • 13 Going on 30 (2004) • Lakshya (2004) • Mean Girls (2004) • Temporada de patos (2004) • The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) • ATL (2006) • Superbad (2007) • Happy Days (2007) • Hounddog (2007) • Persepolis (2007) • Juno (2007) • The Poker House (2008) • 35 Shots of Rum (2008) • Let the Right One In (2008) • The Reader (2008) • Gamyam (2008) • Slumdog Millionaire (2008) • Kotha Bangaru Lokam (2008) • Fish Tank (2009) • Bandslam (2009) • Wake Up Sid (2009) • the How to Train Your Dragon movie trilogy (2010–2019) • Winter's Bone (2010) • Submarine (2010) • Let Me In (2010) • Pariah (2011) • Hick (2011) • Turn Me On, Dammit! (2011) • Life of Pi (2012) • Moonrise Kingdom (2012) • The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) • The Zigzag Kid (2012) • The Spectacular Now (2013) • The Kings of Summer (2013) • The Way Way Back (2013) • Wetlands (2013) • Fukrey (2013) • Boyhood (2014) • Girlhood (2014) • The Fault in Our Stars (2014) • The Falling (2014) • Mustang (2015) • Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) • The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015) • Dope (2015) • Mistress America (2015) • Paper Towns (2015) • Coming Through the Rye (2015) • Kerintha (2015) • Sleeping Giant (2015) • Yevade Subramanyam (2015) • Inside Out (2015) • The Peanuts Movie (2015) • Moana (2016) • Moonlight (2016) • The Edge of Seventeen (2016) • American Honey (2016) • 20th Century Women (2016) • 2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten (2016) • Call Me by Your Name (2017) • Hot Summer Nights (2017) • Lady Bird (2017) • It (2017) • November Criminals (2017) • Vunnadhi Okate Zindagi (2017) • Coco (2017) • Eighth Grade (2018) • Mid90s (2018) • The Hate U Give (2018) • Leave No Trace (2018) • Boy Erased (2018) • The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018) • Love, Simon (2018) • To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018) • Bumblebee (2018) • The Grinch (2018) • The King (2019) • The Lion King (2019) • Booksmart (2019) • Little Women (2019) • Yes, God, Yes (2019) • Enola Holmes (2020) • Onward (2020) • Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna (2020) • Nahuel and the Magic Book (2020) • The Half of It (2020) • The Prom (2020) • Cherry (2021) • Chhello Show (2021) • Luca (2021) • Dear Evan Hansen (2021) • Everybody's Talking About Jamie (2021) • There's Someone Inside Your House (2021) • Licorice Pizza (2021) • Encanto (2021) • CODA (2021) • The Hand of God (2021) • The Black Phone (2021) • West Side Story (2021) • Live Is Life (2021) • Turning Red (2022) • Aftersun (2022) • Bones and All (2022) • Egghead & Twinkie (2023) • Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023) • Barbie (2023) • Freedom, Wisconsin (2023) • Riley (2023) • Uproar (2023) • Inside Out 2 (2024) • Merrily We Roll Along (TBA) Films featuring protagonists in particular age groups, such as pre-teens, are: or post-high school and college students, in films such as: or people aged around 20 years old who do not go to college, such as: or in the case of unique coming-of-age stories centered on post-college aged individuals, such as:

In television

Coming-of-age television series include: • 13 Reasons Why (2017–2020) • Adventure Time (2010–2018) • Amphibia (2019–2022) • Anne with an E (2017–2019) • Annika (1984) • Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day (2011) • Atypical (2017–2021) • Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005-2008) • Boy Meets World (1993–2000) • Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) • Dawson's Creek (1998–2003) • Degrassi franchise (1979–2017) • * Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001–2015) • Di4ries (2022–present) • The End of the F***ing World (2017–2019) • Euphoria (2019–present) • Everything Sucks! (2018) • Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000) • Girl Meets World (2014–2017) • Girlboss (2017) • Glee (2009–2015) • Gossip Girl (2007–2012) • Grand Army (2020–present) • Gravity Falls (2012–2016) • Happy Days (1974–1984) • Heartstopper (2022–present) • Hilda (2018–2023) • I Am Not Okay with This (2020) • Invincible (2021–present) • Ladhood (2019–present) • Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983) • Love, Victor (2020–2022) • The Lying Life of Adults (2023–) • Malhação (1995–present) • Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart (2019–present) • Ms. Marvel (2022) • My Brilliant Friend (2018–) • My So-Called Life (1994–1995) • On My Block (2018–2021) • One Day at a Time (2017–2020) • One Summer (1983) • Over the Garden Wall (2014) • The Owl House (2020-2023) • PEN15 (2019–2021) • Prisma (2022–present) • The Queen's Gambit (2020) • The Sea Beyond (2020–) • A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017–2019) • Sex Education (2019–present) • Sintonia (2019–present) • Skam (2015–2017) • * SKAM Austin (2018–2019) • Skins (2007–2013) • Steven Universe (2013–2020) • Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (2024–present) • Stranger Things (2016–present) • The Summer I Turned Pretty (2022–present) • Teen Wolf (2011–2017) • That 70's Show (1998–2006) • Twenty-Five Twenty-One (2022) • We Are Who We Are (2020) • We Bare Bears (2015–2019) • Wednesday (2022–present) • The Wonder Years (1988–1993) • * The Wonder Years (2021) (2021–2023) • Anos Dourados (1986) • Anos Rebeldes (1992) • Young Royals (2021–present) • Young Sheldon (2017–2024)

In video games