Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice: A Novel (novel) 1813
Emma: A Novel (novel) 1816

Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (novel) 1847

Thomas Carlyle
Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh (prose) 1833-34; published in Fraser's Magazine

Kate Chopin
The Awakening (novel) 1899

Charles Dickens
Great Expectations (novel) 1861

Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
Ahnung und Gegenwart: Ein Roman (novel) 1815

George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss (novel) 1860

Gustave Flaubert
L'Education sentimentale, histoire d'un jeune homme [Sentimental Education: A Young Man's History] (novel) 1869

Theodor Fontane
Effi Briest: Roman [Effi Briest] (novel) 1895

Benjamin Franklin
*The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (autobiography) 1868

Gustav Freytag
Soll und Haben: Roman in Sechs Büchern. 3 vols. [Debit and Credit] (novel) 1855

Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South (novel) 1855

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
†Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre: Ein Roman. 4 vols. [Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship] (novel) 1795-96

Eliza Haywood
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless. 4 vols. (novel) 1751

E. T. A. Hoffmann
Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr nebst fragmentarischer Biographie des Kapellmeisters Johannes Kreisler in zufälligen Makulaturblättern. 2 vols. [The Educated Cat] (novel) 1820-22

Friedrich Hölderlin
†Hyperion oder der Eremit in Griechenland. 2 vols. [Hyperion; or, the Hermit in Greece] (novel) 1797-99

Karl Leberecht Immermann
Die Epigonen: Familienmemoiren in neun Büchern. 3 vols. (novel) 1836

Gottfried Keller
†Der grüne Heinrich: Roman. 4 vols. [Green Henry] (novel) 1854-55; revised edition, 1879-80

Rudyard Kipling
Kim (novel) 1901

Thomas Mann
Der Zauberberg: Roman. 2 vols. [The Magic Mountain] (novel) 1924
‡Die Geschichten Jaakobs [The Tales of Jacob] (novel) 1933
‡Der junge Joseph [Young Joseph: Joseph and His Brothers II] (novel) 1934
‡Joseph in Aegypten [Joseph in Egypt: Joseph and His Brothers III] (novel) 1936
‡Joseph der Ernaehrer [Joseph the Provider: Joseph and His Brothers IV] (novel) 1943

Herman Melville
Redburn: His First Voyage. Being the Sailor-Boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-Gentleman, in the Merchant Service. 2 vols. (novel) 1849

Eduard Mörike
Maler Nolten: Novelle in zwei Theilen (novel) 1832; revised edition, 1877

Karl Philipp Moritz
Anton Reiser: Ein psychologischer Roman. 4 vols. [Anton Reiser: A Psychological Novel] (novel) 1785-90

Novalis
†Heinrich von Ofterdingen: Ein nachgelassener Roman [Henry von Ofterdingen] (unfinished novel) 1802; published in Schriften. 2 vols., edited by Friedrich Schlegel and Ludwig Tieck

Wilhelm Raabe
Der Hungerpastor: Ein Roman in drei Bänden. 3 vols. [The Hunger-Pastor] (novel) 1864

Sir Walter Scott
Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since. 3 vols. (novel) 1814

Stendhal
Le Rouge et le noir, chronique du XIX^e siècle. 2 vols. [Red and Black: A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century] (novel) 1830

Adalbert Stifter
†Der Nachsommer: Eine Erzählung. 3 vols. [Indian Summer] (novel) 1857

Elizabeth Drew Stoddard
The Morgesons (novel) 1862; revised edition, 1889

Ludwig Tieck
Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen: Eine altdeutsche Geschichte (novel) 1798

Christoph Martin Wieland
Geschichte des Agathon. 2 vols. [The History of Agathon] (novel) 1766-67; revised and enlarged as Agathon, 1773; revised and enlarged as Geschichte des Agathon, 1794

*Written between c.1771 and c. 1790.

†These works are widely accepted by critics as Bildungsromane. Some critics contend that the Bildungsroman genre has a very narrow scope, and would not consider the rest of the works on this list Bildungsromane.

‡Part of the “Joseph und seine Brüder” (“Joseph and His Brothers”) novel series, published together as Joseph and His Brothers, translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter, in 1948.