The aim of this research is the presentation of transitional types of identities in three novels by Croatian writers of the 21st century. The analysis was conducted on the works of Ivana Šojat-Kuča, Olja Runjić and Ivana Sajko, with the selected novels Ničiji sinovi (2012), Auf Wiedersehen Mustafa (2013) and Ljubavni roman (2015). In the first chapter, the concept of transition is defined with the help of available handbooks of literary theory and literary terminology. Then, possible interpretations of the duration of the transition are presented, as well as the connection between the transition and the previous period (socialism) and critiques of the period itself. The second chapter presents the link between transition and literature as well as the most important features of transitional literature. The third chapter of the paper presents literary theoretical concepts and interpretations of the concept of identity, and then explains and defines the meaning of the concept of transitional identity, which also forms the center of this paper. These novels are analyzed on the basis of several possible types of transitional identity, namely: national identity, social identity, the identity of the transitional "loser" and generational identity. Prior to the analysis, the aforementioned novels and authors were placed in the context of the time of transition. The central part of the paper deals with the individual analysis of the basic types of transitional identities in the main protagonists of these novels. In the end, it is concluded which types of transitional identities the Croatian writer used to construct an identity in the transition period and why these types of identities are unique only for the transition period.