Book · 2025 · Fiction
The Catcher in the Rye
#59 of 15,621 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts
- mentions
- 41
- people
- 23
- podcasts
- 18
- episodes
- 29
- critical mentions
- 0
The Catcher in the Rye actually carried this book around with me this is the first time i ever back in high school right chris lowe's the guy was a freshman he's like hey you gotta read this book and this is the first time i ever read a book and thought oh gosh somebody's in my head.
What they say about it
- Associated with Mark David Chapman“Mark David Chapman read”2
- Impact on readers in youth“somebody's in my head”2
- Rereading every decade“rereading it every 10 years or so”2
The best things said about it
He published The Catcher And The Ry in 1951 it dropped like a neutron bomb on America and essentially created the current popular image of a teenager.
Once you realize you know you lied to all your life and it's not mistakes systemically lied to there's the danger of getting into this stupid catcher in the rye mindset everyone's a phony.
If you read catcher and the Ry like it's like a pretty interesting book in that it's like impacted America but like there'll be a sentence like he was sad it just says he was sad.
Imagine if you were a novelist and, you know, you're writing this novel privately and it's published and then, like, uh, Mark Chapman holding The Catcher in the Rye, somebody uses your novel to do something that's really horrible. That's the great problem of humanity, isn't it?
Where and when it comes up
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How it comes up
23 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger is a classic novel following the disillusioned teenager Holden Caulfield as he navigates alienation in New York City. Dr. John Delony recommended the book on The Dr. John Delony Show, recalling how receiving a copy in middle school influenced his path. The novel also surfaced in various critical and cultural discussions across multiple podcasts. On The Daily Stoic, Rich Cohen noted the difficulty of adapting the novel into a film. Helen Czerski brought it up on Freakonomics Radio to discuss the troubling phenomenon of criminals, such as Mark Chapman, holding the book. Joe Rogan discussed the novel on The Joe Rogan Experience in relation to mental illness and how individuals intensely identify with its protagonist, a theme echoed by Jordan Harbinger on The Jordan Harbinger Show when questioning its presence on the shelves of various shooters. Additionally, Sadie Stein shared fond memories of reading it in seventh grade on The Book Review, Woody Allen named it as one of the few enjoyable books he ever read during an appearance on Honestly with Bari Weiss.
Every mention
Dr John Delony he um gave me his copy of catcher in the rye and that book kind of sent me on my way 3
Recommended
“he um gave me his copy of catcher in the rye and that book kind of sent me on my way”
Discussed
“the catcher in the rye actually carried this book around with me this is the first time i ever back in high school right chris lowe's the guy was a freshman he's like hey you gotta read this book and this is the first time i ever read a book and thought oh gosh somebody's in my head”
Recommended
“catcher in the rye by salinger”
Josh Clark and Mark David Chapman read uh from The Catcher And The Ry the part where um I was going to read it 11
Discussed
“this is sort of I guess where we can start talking about C The Catcher And The Rye”
Discussed
“and he picked up his copy of Catcher in The Ry and he leaned against the building and started thumbing through it”
Discussed
“and Mark David Chapman read uh from The Catcher And The Ry the part where um I was going to read it”
Discussed
“this period of time that six months are when he really seems the most mentally ill when it really shines through because he's vacillating between a complete and total immersion in The Catcher And The Ry and rejecting The Catcher And The Rye”
Discussed
“catcher in the Ry was one that I I'm actually due because I would I was doing a thing where I was kind of rereading it every 10 years or so”
Discussed
“he published The Catcher And The Ry in 1951 it dropped like a neutron bomb on America and essentially created the current popular image of a teenager”
Discussed
“and this was a direct model for if you've read catcher in the Ry of Holden caulfield's pincy Prep School uh it was a very kind of autobiographical in some ways”
Discussed
“one day will read catcher the Ry every 10 years and take a different meaning because I haven't explicitly sort of said what the meaning is”
Discussed
“well catcher in the ey we'll we can talk about the ending a little bit we don't want to give it away too much”
Discussed
“it seems like getting catcher in the Ry out there yeah I think so”
Discussed
“um of we of uh of the catcher and the Ry we should tell people about that because I didn't know until yesterday”
Ben Bowlin and then he just sat down on a curb and started reading The Catcher in the Rye which he had brought with hi… 2
Discussed
“and then he just sat down on a curb and started reading The Catcher in the Rye which he had brought with him when he was arrested he and asked for a statement he told police that the book The Catcher And The Ry was his statement”
Discussed
“we're going to have our pal Jordan over on air in the near future to talk about the catcher and the Ry and whether it was a trigger for assassinations”
Joe Rogan I mean once again John Lennin that cat you know I mean read uh catcher in the rye. Mhm. Catch her in the ry… 2
Discussed
“I mean once again John Lennin that cat you know I mean read uh catcher in the rye. Mhm. Catch her in the rye. He thought he was that cat in there, you know.”
Discussed
“what book did he have uh uh on the Ry what is it called catcher in the Ry”
Sam Parr With copy work, what I like to do is I find the best sales letters or it could even be the best book. So it… 2
Discussed
“With copy work, what I like to do is I find the best sales letters or it could even be the best book. So it could be like Catcher in the Rye, that's what I did it with.”
Discussed
“well or or like some of these great authors that I love are like JD Salinger like these like people like if you read catcher and the Ry like it's like a pretty interesting book in that it's like impacted America but like there'll be a sentence like he was sad it just says he was sad”
Steve Levitt it ends up being I'm going to write the 7 millionth essay about Catcher in the Rye. the world doesn't need… 2
Discussed
“it ends up being I'm going to write the 7 millionth essay about Catcher in the Rye. the world doesn't need another essay in Catcher in the Rye.”
Discussed
“in some ways it's more legitimate than the 9 millionth essay on The Catcher in the right”
A.O. Scott It's the book that Holden Caulfield talks about. Maybe the only book that Holden Coughfield and Catcher and… 1
Discussed
“It's the book that Holden Caulfield talks about. Maybe the only book that Holden Coughfield and Catcher and the Ry kind of talks about with reverence”
Agnes Callard and one of them is like even something like obviously it wouldn't make sense to be looking for the cure to… 1
Discussed
“and one of them is like even something like obviously it wouldn't make sense to be looking for the cure to cancer right but even something like reading catcher in their eye that's one of his examples”
Bill Burr I really felt like this is the first book I've read since you know the one that everybody had to read grown… 1
Discussed
“I really felt like this is the first book I've read since you know the one that everybody had to read grown up Catcher in the Rye”
Edward Slingerland you ever had catcher in the rye yeah 1
Discussed
“you ever had catcher in the rye yeah”
Gabby Windey I love to read so like books she's telling me all of her mom's favorite books and like American classics. I… 1
Discussed
“I love to read so like books she's telling me all of her mom's favorite books and like American classics. I'm like Joan Ddian. I did Catcher in the Ry. Love Sylvia Pla.”
Helen Czerski Imagine if you were a novelist and, you know, you're writing this novel privately and it's published and th… 1
Discussed
“Imagine if you were a novelist and, you know, you're writing this novel privately and it's published and then, like, uh, Mark Chapman holding The Catcher in the Rye, somebody uses your novel to do something that's really horrible. That's the great problem of humanity, isn't it?”
Jason Calacanis You'll be better on a podcast if you could explain what resonated with you in catcher in the ry and you cou… 1
Discussed
“You'll be better on a podcast if you could explain what resonated with you in catcher in the ry and you could be a better human in the human world.”
Jeff Bridges we were working on some uh you know holden caulfield you know what uh catcher in the rye scenes 1
Discussed
“we were working on some uh you know holden caulfield you know what uh catcher in the rye scenes”
Jordan Harbinger Why do so many shooters have the catcher and the rye on their shelf? 1
Discussed
“Why do so many shooters have the catcher and the rye on their shelf?”
Mark Follman He also had a copy of Catcher on the Rye with him. 1
Discussed
“He also had a copy of Catcher on the Rye with him.”
Michael Malice once you realize you know you lied to all your life and it's not mistakes systemically lied to there's the… 1
Discussed
“once you realize you know you lied to all your life and it's not mistakes systemically lied to there's the danger of getting into this stupid catcher in the rye mindset everyone's a phony”
Neal Brennan and uh uh the salinger book the catching the ride because that's responsible for killing lenin shooting reagan 1
Discussed
“and uh uh the salinger book the catching the ride because that's responsible for killing lenin shooting reagan”
Rich Cohen There's not a good movie of the catcher in the rye either for the same reason. 1
Discussed
“There's not a good movie of the catcher in the rye either for the same reason.”
Ryan Holiday the polar extreme opposite of that though is JD Salinger the author who wrote The Catcher in the Rye one of… 1
Discussed
“the polar extreme opposite of that though is JD Salinger the author who wrote The Catcher in the Rye one of the most celebrated authors of the 20th century”
Sadie Stein Oh um seventh grade we read Catcher in the Eye and I absolutely loved it. 1
Discussed
“Oh um seventh grade we read Catcher in the Eye and I absolutely loved it.”
Steven Johnson And you know one of the side effects of this technology is like if you have free access to these tools they… 1
Discussed
“And you know one of the side effects of this technology is like if you have free access to these tools they will write a plausible paper for you particularly if it's on a well if it's on you know catcher in the rye where there's like six billion papers there that have been written”
Woody Allen Uh they Catcher in the Rye and A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin. 1
Discussed
“Uh they Catcher in the Rye and A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin.”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker2
Discussed
“I was 12 years old and I I borrowed from my brother uh a paperback copy of The Catcher And The Ry which I uh brought with me to the beach”
Discussed
“it's a quote from um catcher in the right oh crazy i think that you're in the right”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (22: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“It was because we had to read all the other that the schools want you to read. But man, when I when I read that, like I never even got that. What was Catcher in the Ry?”
Passing
“um I loved Holding Coughfield as a kid.”
Passing
“Oh god. the coach has on his reading glasses. He's already in the f off season. He's going to read catcher in the ry or some”
Passing
“You know, be like, "Oh, catch her in the rye." You know, and you'll see a guy look up.”
Passing
“Pan Moonjam. Brando the King and I and the catcher in the All right, back up.”
Passing
“I I remember speaking of Catcher and the Ry, there was a Mel Gibson movie. I think it was called Conspiracy Theory.”
Passing
“it actually it has sort of Echoes of you know the American version might be the catcher and the Ry but this is a little more for adults”
Passing
“he had uh the beginnings of Catcher And The Ry in his napsack he was working on that book already”
Passing
“uh 1949 and went to Westport Connecticut and he finished uh catcher in the Ry there”
Passing
“can you imagine chuck how much those pages of Catcher And The Rye that were in his naps sa when storm Normandy would be worth”
Passing
“or if you're Hunter S Thompson you would find you'd do like Catcher in the Rye or some book that you like because when you copy it by hand you start seeing the patterns”
Passing
“It ends up being that I’m going to write the 7 millionth essay about Catcher in the Rye. The world doesn't need another essay on Catcher in the Rye; the world needs kids who can pick a topic they like and then teach us about it!”
Passing
“The world doesn't need another essay on Catcher in the Rye; the world needs kids who can pick a topic they like and then teach us about it! I've always wondered why that's the case; probably because the system believes that's how they can evaluate whether someone has read Catcher in the Rye.”
Passing
“But as we know, that's not the case either; you could probably go get the cliff notes and write an even better essay about Catcher in the Rye than if you were to actually just sit and enjoy the book.”
Passing
“It might be reflected in some of your writing, but it doesn't have to be; you should write an op-ed in your local paper, post a blog, or answer a Quora post thoughtfully—like, not only is it legitimate in some ways, it's more legitimate than the 9 millionth essay on The Catcher in the Rye!”
Passing
“We were working on some, you know, Holden Caulfield, you know what, uh, Catcher in the Rye scenes, you know, other scenes that he worked at because we were trying to get me an agent and so forth, right?”
Passing
“You ever catch her in The Catcher in the Rye?”
Passing
“oh my god that [ __ ] catcher on the rye analogy you always make”
Passing
“Um, but as far as keeping up, you know, it is a bit of what's a challenge nowadays is to read anything where you think, oh, okay, that's the full story!”
Passing
“You order you order a a Reuben, ask for four extra inches of meat, crack open a a copy of Catcher in the Rye, and you're [ __ ] tremendous, son.”
Passing
“he's already in the F offseason he's gonna read catch her in the Rye or some [ __ ] come on man”
Passing
“I came over to his house one time and he had The Catcher in the Rye or something like that sitting right on his coffee table”