The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger's Classic novel of tennage angst & rebellion that was first published in 1951 & became popular with adolescent readers over the years. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923, and it was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century, though it has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality. In the 1950s & 60s it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read.