Read Bonjour Tristesse

Truffaut's own childhood as Antoine Doinel, ending with the freeze frame on the beach.

Marjane Satrapi grows up through the Iranian revolution, in black and white.

A schoolgirl and a blue-haired art student in Lille; the Palme d'Or given to the actresses too.

Salinger's restless coming-of-age classic (1951).

Pip, Magwitch on the marshes and Miss Havisham's rotting cake.

Dickens' favourite child, from a blacking factory to a writer's desk; Micawber and Uriah Heep.

Huck and Jim down the Mississippi on a raft; "all modern American literature comes from" it, said Hemingway.

The four March sisters through the Civil War years; Jo the writer.