Expelled again, Holden Caulfield wanders New York for a weekend, allergic to phonies and mourning his brother.
Books mentioned in The Catcher in the Rye (13)
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens: “and all that David Copperfield kind of crap”
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen: “They gave me Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen.”
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: “Take old Eustacia Vye, in The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy.”
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham: “You take that book Of Human Bondage, by Somerset Maugham, though. I read it last summer.”
Beowulf: “because I had all that Beowulf and Lord Randal My Son stuff when I was at the Whooton School”
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: “Oh, Romeo and Juliet! Lovely! Didn't you just love it?”
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare: “by Thomas Hardy, and Romeo and Juliet and Julius―”
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway: “he got me to read this book A Farewell to Arms last summer.”
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “I was crazy about The Great Gatsby. Old Gatsby. Old sport.”
Hamlet by William Shakespeare: “You take Sir Laurence Olivier, for example. I saw him in Hamlet.”
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens: “He's carrying this copy of Oliver Twist and so's she.”
Lord Randal, My Son by Traditional: “Beowulf, and old Grendel, and Lord Randal My Son, and all those things. But we had to read outside books for extra credit once in a while.”
Comin' Thro' the Rye by Robert Burns: “You know that song 'If a body catch a body comin' through the rye'?..."It's 'If a body meet a body coming through the rye'!" old Phoebe said. "It's a poem. By Robert Burns."”
Books that mention The Catcher in the Rye (10)
Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday: “In J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Holden can't stay in school, is petrified of growing up...”
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami: “No War and Peace, no Kenzaburo Oe, no Catcher in the Rye.”
White Teeth by Zadie Smith: “impossibly rare copy of Slick Rick's 'Hey Young World,' The Catcher in the Rye, his guitar... all had been placed on the funeral pyre.”
The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai: “the fifteen-year-old Ian who’d just fallen in love with The Catcher in the Rye”
How to Be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis: “As a stroppy teenager I sympathised with her hatred of pseuds and charmers (the same people Holden Caulfield, the anti-hero of Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye, calls phonies).”
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.”
11/22/63 by Stephen King: “My best day as a sub came at West Sarasota High, after I’d told an American Lit class the basic story of The Catcher in the Rye (a book which was not, of course, allowed in the school library and would have been confiscated if brought into those sacred halls by a student) and then encouraged them to talk a”
Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin: “Identification with the child's point of view all too often leads to the whining falsities of The Catcher in the Rye...”
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver: “That Holden guy held my interest … all he wants in his heart is to stand at the edge of a field catching little boys before they go over the cliff … so I made him the catcher in the tobacco.”