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The King Must Die is a 1958 Bildungsroman and historical novel by Mary Renault that traces the early life and adventures of Theseus, a hero in Greek mythology. Naturally, it is set in Ancient Greece: Troizen, Corinth, Eleusis, Athens, Knossos in Crete, and Naxos.

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The Old Man and the Sea is a novella (just over 100 pages in length) by Ernest Hemingway, written in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952.

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A Separate Peace is John Knowles's first published novel, released in 1959. The work is Knowles' most widely-known, and is a coming-of-age novel.

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Despite their polar personalities, Gene and Phineas make fast friends at Devon: Gene's quiet, introverted intellectual personality matches Finny's more extroverted, carefree, athletic demeanor.

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884 / 1885) (often shortened to Huck Finn) by Mark Twain is commonly accounted as one of the first Great American Novels.
The book has been popular with young readers since its publication, and taken as a sequel to the comparatively innocuous The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

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Life in St. Petersburg