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If I had to choose one - Narcissus and Goldmund (Hesse) As a teen I also remember: - Demian (Hesse) classic coming of age story - Siddhartha (Hesse) - On the Penal Colony (Kafka) - Rashomon (Akutagawa) - In a Grove (Akutagawa) - The Grand Inquisitor (Dostoevsky) - Notes from the Underground (Dostoevsky) - Nausea (Sartre) As a tween: - Every single Harry Potter book - LOTR - Also not a novel but I watched Neon Genesis Evangelion (the whole series and the movie and I remember being really drawn to how wild it was compared to anything else I’d ever seen) In Hesse’s Demian, Demian talks about living a comfortable life in a “World of Light” as a child, and he sees the outside world of darkness. Similarly, Siddhartha starts out comfortably but must venture into the outside world full of darkness. Maybe this coming of age idea is what Hesse has a lot in his novels, but it resonated with me a lot at the time. I remember feeling it deeply. And the other novels I read that I listed here are still great too
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androidsixteen
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Eva went hard as a tween / early teenager I remember binge watching it in less than a week because it had me so enrapt I know this thread was about books, but FLCL also had that darker coming of age vibe
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July
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Also because the protagonists in Eva are around the same age at the time, it’s even more relatable and relevant at that age
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androidsixteen
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I think even back then I could not relate to Shinji 😅 But the others, yes!
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