Coming-of-Age Memoirs
99. 
Children of Catastrophe: Journey from a Palestinian Refugee Camp to America
by:
Jamal K. Kanj
4.54 avg rating β 26 ratings 
99. 
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
by:
Alexandra Fuller
3.97 avg rating β 56,664 ratings 113. 
Farangi Girl Growing Up in Iran: A Daughter's Story
by:
Ashley Dartnell
4.14 avg rating β 192 ratings 
118. 
The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John Holmes
by:
Dawn Schiller
4.02 avg rating β 2,001 ratings 
122. 
What's to Become of the Boy? Or, Something to Do with Books
by:
Heinrich BΓΆll
3.33 avg rating β 517 ratings 
122. 
Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood 3.78 avg rating β 459 ratings
122. 
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up
by:
Evanna Lynch
4.53 avg rating β 6,927 ratings 127. 
Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran
by:
Afschineh Latifi
4.06 avg rating β 551 ratings 127. 
Lights Out: A Cuban Memoir of Betrayal and Survival
by:
Dania Rosa Nasca
4.03 avg rating β 70 ratings 
130. 
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
by:
Anya von Bremzen
4.03 avg rating β 4,655 ratings 
133. 
Small Bamboo: Growing Up and Growing Old With My Vietnamese Australian Family
by:
Tracy Vo
3.76 avg rating β 112 ratings 
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No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
by:
Darnell L. Moore
4.16 avg rating β 2,765 ratings 
151. 
Coming of Age at the End of Nature: A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet
by:
Julie Dunlap
3.63 avg rating β 185 ratings 
154. 
Journals of War: Coming of Age with the 104th Infantry During World War II
by:
E.J. McCully
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings 154. 
Retablos: Stories From a Life Lived Along the Border
by:
Octavio Solis
4.15 avg rating β 524 ratings 154. 
Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
by:
Tom Felton
4.28 avg rating β 147,673 ratings 157. 
No Apparent Distress: A Doctor's Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine
by:
Rachel Pearson
4.03 avg rating β 1,458 ratings 
160. 
A Boy from Georgia: Coming of Age in the Segregated South
by:
Hamilton Jordan
4.06 avg rating β 51 ratings 160. 
162. 
Soul Serenade: Rhythm, Blues & Coming of Age Through Vinyl
by:
Rashod Ollison
4.22 avg rating β 93 ratings 163. 
163. 
The Wrong End of the Table: A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit in
by:
Ayser Salman
3.66 avg rating β 2,870 ratings 165. 
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Hill of Beans: Coming of Age in the Last Days of the Old South
by:
John Snyder
3.92 avg rating β 37 ratings 166. 
Saigon Kids: An American Military Brat Comes of Age in 1960's Vietnam
by:
Les Arbuckle
4.29 avg rating β 132 ratings 168. 
Nylon Road: A Graphic Memoir of Coming of Age in Iran
by:
Parsua Bashi
3.42 avg rating β 448 ratings 
172. 
Grow Up!: How Taking Responsibility Can Make You A Happy Adult
by:
Frank Pittman
4.09 avg rating β 55 ratings 172. 
The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family 4.05 avg rating β 772 ratings
174. 
Once Below a Time: Memories of Growing Up in Rural Virginia at Mid-Century
by:
Glynn Baugher
4.17 avg rating β 6 ratings 
176. 
Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family
by:
Nguyen Qui Duc
4.23 avg rating β 96 ratings 
180. 
Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature
by:
Suzanne W. Jones
4.06 avg rating β 86 ratings 
182. 
The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia 3.38 avg rating β 1,437 ratings
183. 
Shop Around: Growing Up With Motown in a Sinatra Household
by:
Bruce Jenkins
3.94 avg rating β 16 ratings 184. 
Stairway to Paradise: Growing Up Gershwin
by:
Nadia Natali
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 9 ratings 184. 
Of Monkey Bridges and BÑnh Mì Sandwiches: from Sà i Gòn to Texas
by:
Oanh Ngo Usadi
4.46 avg rating β 679 ratings 186. 
Growing Up X: A Memoir by the Daughter of Malcolm X
by:
Ilyasah Shabazz
4.02 avg rating β 418 ratings 
188. 
North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both 4.25 avg rating β 17,620 ratings
190. 
Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson
by:
Juan F. Thompson
3.98 avg rating β 971 ratings 190. 
I Survived Childhood: A Memoir of Abandonment, Betrayal and Healing
by:
Hyun Martin
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 
193. 
195. 
Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny
by:
Marlo Thomas
3.85 avg rating β 1,951 ratings 195. 
Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs
by:
Keena Roberts
4.26 avg rating β 1,178 ratings 197. 
Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family
by:
Najla Said
3.76 avg rating β 1,172 ratings 
199. 
Boston Boy: Growing up with Jazz and Other Rebellious Passions
by:
Nat Hentoff
3.85 avg rating β 96 ratings 