The Catcher in the RyeRecommendations

Author:
J.D. Salinger
Buy on Amazon
Buy on Apple Books

About the book

The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books.

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

"The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.

Related books

Conversations with Friends

Sally Rooney

Lord of the Flies

William Golding

Normal People

Sally Rooney

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara