I'm finally digging into Kipling's "Kim" via the audiobook narrated by Simon Vance. It's a delight, as long as you keep firmly in mind that it's a product of its cultural time.
It's billed in Everand as a "coming of age tale," but given that teenaged Kim has a scarily accurate understanding of the way the "adult" world works from the outset of the story, I don't think it's a bildungsroman at all. It's more like a hyperrealistic pilgrimage novel.
Yesterday I learned that infamous double agent "Kim" Philby apparently got his nickname from the novel, which made me think immediately of another novel that contains a bildungsroman AND like "Kim" is a #Spy story: Le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.