Books about Bildungsromans (sorted alphabetically)
- Penrod and Sam Booth Tarkington
- Personal History of David Copperfield Charles Dickens
- Peter Camenzind (Finnish) Hermann Hesse
- Peter Camenzind (German) Hermann Hesse
- Peter Paragon: A Tale of Youth John Palmer
- petit chose (French) Alphonse Daudet
- Petit Chose (Histoire d'un Enfant) Alphonse Daudet
- Phoebe, Junior Mrs. Oliphant
- Pikku naisia (Finnish) Louisa May Alcott
- Pippin; A Wandering Flame Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
- Prudence of the Parsonage Ethel Hueston
- Queechy Susan Warner
- Queechy, Volume I Susan Warner
- Queechy, Volume II Susan Warner
- Queen Pedauque Anatole France
- Ragged Dick Jr. Horatio Alger
- Ragged Dick, Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks Jr. Horatio Alger
- Ralph Raymond's Heir Jr. Horatio Alger
- Ramsey Milholland Booth Tarkington
- Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830 Stendhal
- Redburn. His First Voyage Herman Melville
- rencontre: roman de deux touristes sur le Saint-Laurent et le Saguenay (French) William Dean Howells
- Rilla of the Lighthouse Grace May North
- Roland Whately: A Novel Alec Waugh