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Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, karya Ibn Tufail (abad ke-12)

Lazarillo de Tormes (pertengahan abad ke-16)

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill), karya John Cleland (1748)

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, karya Henry Fielding (1749)

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, karya Laurence Sterne (1759)

Geschichte des Agathon, karya Christoph Martin Wieland (1767) —sering dianggap yang pertama "benar"  Bildungsroman

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship karya Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1795–96)

The Red and The Black, karya Stendhal (1830)

Jane Eyre, karya Charlotte Brontë (1847)

Wuthering Heights karya Emily Brontë (1847)

Netochka Nezvanova, karya Fyodor Dostoevsky (1849)

David Copperfield, karya Charles Dickens (1850)

Green Henry, karya Gottfried Keller (1855)

Great Expectations, karya Charles Dickens (1861)

Little Women, karya Louisa May Alcott (1869)

Sentimental Education, karya Gustave Flaubert (1869)

What Maisie Knew, karya Henry James (1897)

Kim, karya Rudyard Kipling (1901)

Martin Eden, karya Jack London (1909)

The Book of Khalid, karya Ameen Rihani (1911)

Sons and Lovers, karya D. H. Lawrence (1913)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, karya James Joyce (1916)

This Side of Paradise karya F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920)

The Magic Mountain karya Thomas Mann (1924)

Pather Panchali, karya Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay (1929)

The Catcher in the Rye karya J. D. Salinger (1951)

Children of Violence karya Doris Lessing (1952–1969)

In the Castle of My Skin, karya George Lamming (1953)

Goodbye, Columbus, karya Philip Roth (1959)

To Kill a Mockingbird, karya Harper Lee (1960)

Wake in Fright, karya Kenneth Cook (1961)

The Emperor of Ice-Cream, karya Brian Moore (1965)

Dune, karya Frank Herbert (1965)

The Outsiders karya S. E. Hinton (1967)

A Wizard of Earthsea, karya Ursula K. Le Guin (1968)

Bright Lights, Big City karya Jay McInerney (1984)

Ender's Game karya Orson Scott Card (1985)

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit karya Jeanette Winterson (1985)

Norwegian Wood karya Haruki Murakami (1987)

English Music karya Peter Ackroyd (1992)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower karya Stephen Chbosky (1999)

Naruto karya Masashi Kishimoto (1999)

Persepolis karya Marjane Satrapi (2000)

The Secret Life of Bees, karya Sue Monk Kidd (2002)

The Kite Runner, karya Khaled Hosseini (2003)

The Fortress of Solitude, karya Jonathan Lethem (2003)

Never Let Me Go, karya Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)

Indecision, karya Benjamin Kunkel (2005)

Black Swan Green, karya David Mitchell (2006)

Indignation, karya Philip Roth (2008)

Washington Black, karya Esi Edugyan (2018)