Five new Salinger books to be released by 2020.

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This is an american thing isn't it!
I have only heard of Catcher in the rye in relation to the inspiration for various murders.

The most well-known event associated with The Catcher in the Rye is arguably Mark David Chapman's shooting of John Lennon.[13] Chapman identified with the novel's narrator to the extent that he wanted to change his name to Holden Caulfield. On the night he shot Lennon, Chapman was found with a copy of the book in which he had written "This is my statement" and signed Holden's name.[14] Later, he read a passage from the novel to address the court during his sentencing.[15] Daniel Stashower speculated that Chapman had wanted Lennon's innocence to be preserved by death, inspired by Holden's wish to preserve children's innocence despite Holden's later realization that children should be left alone.[15]
After John Hinckley, Jr.'s assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan in 1981, police found The Catcher in the Rye among half a dozen other books in his hotel room.[16]
Robert John Bardo, who murdered Rebecca Schaeffer, was carrying the book when he visited Schaeffer's apartment in Hollywood on July 18, 1989.[17]
As numerous murders have been speculated to be connected to the novel, the main character of the film Conspiracy Theory is a paranoid skeptic with an uncontrollable urge to purchase it.[14]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher...ar_culture