Two connected novellas about the youngest members of the Glass family: Franny, having a spiritual crisis over a small book of Russian pilgrim prayers, and her brother Zooey, who tries to talk her back from the edge in a single long afternoon at their parents' apartment.
Books mentioned in Franny and Zooey (26)
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens: “he was sitting at the table in the kitchen... drinking a glass of ginger ale and eating saltines and reading 'Dombey and Son,' and all of a sudden Jesus sat down in the other chair”
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky: “'The Scarab Murder Case' and 'The Idiot' were together, 'Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase' lay on top of 'Fear and Trembling.'”
Sacred Books of the East by Max Müller: “I wasn't afraid you'd both, in tears, take up a position across the room and fire the complete set of Max Mueller's Sacred Books of the East at me, one by one.”
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie: “Even before the curtain goes up at 'Peter Pan,' I'm a goddam puddle of tears.”
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway: “RICK (quietly): My darling, isn't that a line from "A Farewell to Arms"?”
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: “And there came over Levin a new feeling of love for this man... - 'Anna Karenina.' (quotation copied on Seymour and Buddy's door)”
Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard: “'Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase' lay on top of 'Fear and Trembling.'”
How to Write Short Stories by Ring Lardner: “"And now play me something." - Ring Lardner ("How to Write Short Stories"). (quotation on Seymour and Buddy's door)”
Kilvert's Diary by Francis Kilvert: “She got it from Kilvert's 'Diary.' The schoolchildren in Kilvert's parish were asked who made the world...”
Dracula by Bram Stoker: “'Dracula' now stood next to 'Elementary Pali,' 'The Boy Allies at the Somme' stood next to 'Bolts of Melody'...”
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: “playing Pierre or Andrey in a Technicolor production of War and Peace, with stunning battlefield scenes”
The Way of a Pilgrim: “"It's something called 'The Way of a Pilgrim.'" She watched Lane eat for a moment.”
The Pilgrim Continues His Way: “That little book is called 'The Pilgrim Continues His Way,' and it's a sequel to another little book, called 'The Way of a Pilgrim'”
The Scarab Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine: “'The Scarab Murder Case' and 'The Idiot' were together, 'Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase' lay on top of 'Fear and Trembling.'”
Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke: “Lane and Sorenson... had been assigned the Fourth of Rilke's 'Duino Elegies' for Monday.”
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov: “Have you ever seen a really beautiful production of, say, The Cherry Orchard?”
Bolts of Melody by Emily Dickinson: “'The Boy Allies at the Somme' stood next to 'Bolts of Melody,' 'The Scarab Murder Case' and 'The Idiot' were together”
Elementary Pali: “'Dracula' now stood next to 'Elementary Pali,' 'The Boy Allies at the Somme' stood next to 'Bolts of Melody'... (bookshelf inventory, unclear specific edition/author)”
Bhagavad Gita: “Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender... - 'Bhagavad Gita.' (quotation on Seymour and Buddy's door)”
Call Me Mister by Harold Rome: “the stubs of three tickets to a 1946 musical comedy ('Call Me Mister')”
Mundaka Upanishad: “he had a little brother who once got over an unhappy love affair by trying to translate the Mundaka Upanishad into classical Greek.”
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna by Mahendranath Gupta: “"If a worshipper should make a mistake, do you not think God will know his intent?" - "The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna."”
The Boy Allies at the Somme by Robert L. Drake: “'The Boy Allies at the Somme' stood next to 'Bolts of Melody,' 'The Scarab Murder Case' and 'The Idiot' were together”
Books that mention Franny and Zooey (6)
Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami: “"has anyone ever translated Franny and Zooey into the Kansai dialect?" (Yesterday)”
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt: “this neighborhood was Edith Wharton and Franny and Zooey and Breakfast at Tiffany's all rolled into one”
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides: “the prayer Franny Glass repeated to herself in Franny and Zooey”
How to Be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis: “Emma had given me the slender, perfect novella, Franny and Zooey, when we were fourteen, to fortify me for a field trip to freezing wet Snowdonia (she had wisely chosen not to do geography GCSE).”
My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff: “Books so ubiquitous on the contemporary bookshelf I barely noticed them: The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, Nine Stories.”
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose: “In Salinger's Franny and Zooey, Bessie Glass's bathrobe not only describes her personality and her entire way of life.”