Bildungsroman Literature 

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) by James Joyce
Bay Area Wild: A Celebration of the Natural Heritage of the San Francisco Bay Area (1997) by Galen Rowell
David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens
Flegeljahre (1804) by Jean Paul
Go Set a Watchman (2015) by Harper Lee
Great Expectations, Tiny Great Expectations (1861) by Charles Dickens
Heinrich von Ofterdingen (1802) by Novalis
Howl (1956) by Allen Ginsberg
Kaddish (1961) by Allen Ginsberg
Oliver Twist (1838) by Charles Dickens
Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) by Truman Capote
Planet News (1968) by Allen Ginsberg
Reality Sandwiches (1963) by Allen Ginsberg
Sons and Lovers (1913) by David Herbert Lawrence
Street of Riches (1955) by Gabrielle Roy
The Cossacks (1863) by Leo Tolstoy
The Counterfeiters (1925) by Andre Gide
The E-Myth Contractor: Why Most Contractors' Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It (2002) by Michael Gerber
The Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965-1971 (1973) by Allen Ginsberg
The Invisible Lodge (1793) by Jean Paul
The Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory (1922) by Max Planck
The Rum Diary (1998) by Hunter S. Thompson
The White Peacock (1911) by David Herbert Lawrence
This Side of Paradise (1920) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
White Shroud Poems (1986) by Allen Ginsberg
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795) by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe