If you haven't read Catcher, which is very rare, then I suggest you add it to your list. Considered a coming of age story, the novel follows anti-hero Holden Caulfield through the "phony" world.
Salinger, though well known in the literary world, choose to hide himself away after much of his success in the early years of his career. Living much of his life as somewhat of a recluse, he is one of modern literature's most unknown personas.
"I hope to hell that when I do die somebody has the sense to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetary. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody." - Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
-BCon-
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