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Books Like A Separate Peace

by John Knowles · about this book

Loved A Separate Peace by John Knowles? If its boarding school, friendship and betrayal and coming of age hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with The Outsiders, The Catcher in the Rye and Never Let Me Go. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside A Separate Peace: Boarding School · Friendship and Betrayal · Coming of Age · Loss of Innocence · Literary Fiction

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   The Outsiders

   S.E. Hinton

   Bildungsroman · Loss of Innocence · Coming of Age · Death of a Friend · Tragic

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   The Catcher in the Rye

   Jerome David Salinger

   Loss of Innocence · Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · Boarding School · Teenagers

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   Never Let Me Go

   Kazuo Ishiguro

   Boarding School · Loss of Innocence · Nostalgic · Death of a Friend · Tragic

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   Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

   J.K. Rowling

   Boarding School · Rite of Passage · Loss of Innocence · Teenagers · Coming of Age

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   To Kill a Mockingbird

   Harper Lee

   Loss of Innocence · Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · Nostalgic · Literary Fiction

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   Assassin's Apprentice

   Robin Hobb

   Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · Classics · Character-Driven · Bittersweet

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   All the Light We Cannot See

   Anthony Doerr

   Loss of Innocence · World War II · Tragic · Literary Fiction · Coming of Age

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8. 

   The Book Thief

   Markus Zusak

   World War II · Loss of Innocence · Tragic · Death of a Friend · Coming of Age

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9. 

   The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

   Robert Dugoni

   Coming of Age · Nostalgic · Death of a Friend · Friendship and Betrayal · Character-Driven

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10. 

    The Giver

    Lois Lowry

    Loss of Innocence · Rite of Passage · Coming of Age · Classics · Teen Protagonist

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11. 

    Memoirs of a Geisha

    Arthur Golden

    Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · World War II · Literary Fiction · Bittersweet

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12. 

    Sunrise on the Reaping

    Suzanne Collins

    Loss of Innocence · Teenagers · Tragic · Teen Protagonist · Death of a Friend

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13. 

    The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Nostalgic · Tragic · Literary Fiction · Classics · Character-Driven

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    Ham On Rye

    Charles Bukowski

    Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · Literary Fiction · Classics · First Person Narrator

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15. 

    The Kite Runner

    Khaled Hosseini

    Friendship and Betrayal · Tragic · Coming of Age · Literary Fiction · Survivor's Guilt

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16. 

    Great Expectations

    Charles Dickens

    Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · Classics · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven

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17. 

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Mark Twain

    Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · Classics · Teen Protagonist · Nostalgic

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18. 

    The Diary of a Young Girl

    Anne Frank

    World War II · Coming of Age · Tragic · Classics · Teen Protagonist

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19. 

    Of Human Bondage

    W. Somerset Maugham

    Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · Literary Fiction · Classics · Character-Driven

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    Taran Wanderer

    Lloyd Alexander

    Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · Classics · Teen Protagonist · Character-Driven

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