Do you know if any book/s with the same genre as "The Catcher in the Rye"?

Answer 1

The Stranger (Camus)
Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
Razor's Edge (W Somerset Maugham)
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)
Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut)

Maybe you could just read happier books instead. This list brought me down just typing it.

Answer 2

I slightly less know book but a great book none the less is Vision Qwest by Terry Davis. It is a great, extremely well crafted, and unusual coming of age story.

John Irving, who was Davis's professor in grads school, was quoted:

"The truest novel about growing up since THE CATCHER IN THE RYE."

Answer 3

The books by S.E Hinton are pretty much along the same lines as "Catcher". Books like "The Outsiders" or "Rumblefish" or "Tex", all of which have been made into moves, all deal with alienated youth

http://www.sehinton.com/

Answer 4

Dow Mossman's The Stones of Summer is in a similar vein; and Jack Kerouac's On the Road at a push...

Answer 5

The daddy of 'em all is Huckleberry Finn.