J. D. Salinger · 1945
- What it is
-
Slow and sad, in the good way
- Genre
- Classics
- Feels
- Raw Melancholic Contemplative
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. Each card tells you why.
Books similar to The Catcher in the Rye
Coming from The Catcher in the Rye? Start with Crime and Punishment, Seize the Day (Penguin Classics). 4 more below, each with why it fits.
Our bet
If you're after something slow and sad, in the good way, start here
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1941
Slow and sad, in the good way · a good honest cry
Seize the Day (Penguin Classics)
Saul Bellow · 1956
Slow and sad, in the good way · a small story, told up close
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 1969
Grouped with yours in Books that change if you read them at 20 or at 40
Stoner
John Williams · 1965
Grouped with yours in Books that change if you read them at 20 or at 40
Whatever you're after
The closest, according to readers
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway · 1952
Slow and sad, in the good way · it stays with you
Was it something else?
Tell us and we'll pull out more.
Still hunting?
Ask other readers for books like this one
On Drayfus, a stack is a small shelf a reader hand-picked around one theme. Open one with this book and other readers vote in the titles that belong, so your list keeps growing without you.
Open a stack with this book