Author
J. D. Salinger
We've read and reviewed J. D. Salinger's literary fiction and coming of age book The Catcher in the Rye on Book of the Day — scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is the original disaffected-teenager novel, narrated by sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield over three raw days in New York. If you want a coming-of-age story driven almost entirely by voice and grief, this is the book that set the template.