He's really only got three other books, and only one of them's a novel, the others being a short story collection and a pair of novellas/novellettes.
I read Catcher first and found it just OK. Franny and Zooey was my gateway deeper into Salinger (and Stoicism) back in high school. Liked Nine stories quite a bit on my first visit, but didn't care for Raise High & Seymour at all until a re-read over a decade later, and now that might be my favorite of his books.
If I had to guess I'd think you are talking about Catcher in the Rye.
The thing is, the other books are a set of tales all about or written by someone of the Glass family. So all three other books work as a sort of programatic novela as a whole.
Which is not only ingenious but revolutionary for the literature itself.
The misticism about his (and his character's) unpublished work is a amazing too.
For me, The Catcher in the Rye was what led me to his other books. Franny and Zooey was my favorite book for a long time (although it's been nearly a decade since I read it) and I think The Catcher in the Rye is probably the weakest of his four books in my opinion (and very likely the most polarizing).
Re:J.D. Salinger, Unbound
by psychometry on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @12:41PM
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How many copies do you own?
That said, I tried reading his other books and as far as I can tell, he was a one hit wonder, so the deep fascination with him is strange to me.