Balzac, Far Goriot/Le Père Goriot
Dickens, Great Expectations
Bronte, Jane Eyre
Flaubert, A Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man/L’Éducation sentimentale: histoire d'un jeune homme
Skram, Constance Ring
Hamsun, Sult
Georg Lukacs, Romanens teori
Franco Moretti, The Way of the World:The Bildungsroman in European Culture