Childhood

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations (1860–1)

Henry James

What Maisie Knew (1897)

Miles Franklin

My Brilliant Career (1901)

Alain-Fournier

Le Grand Meaulnes (1913)

James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

Nancy Mitford

The Pursuit of Love (1945)

J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

William Golding

Lord of the Flies (1954)

Sue Townsend

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ (1982)

Jeanette Winterson

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit (1985)

Esther Freud

Hideous Kinky (1992)

Roddy Doyle

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993)