The Catcher in the Rye is the only self-narrative, full-length novel written by American writer J. D. Salinger, published in 1951. The protagonist in this book is a 16-year-old high school student Holden, who doesn't pay attention to fashionable wear, swears like a trooper, and gives everybody a rascal down boy impression. The author limited the start-stop of story within 3 days of time from Holden left school to wandering in New York, learned from the writing method with stream of consciousness and unconstrained style, so as to fully explored the inward world of a teenager.

Robinson Crusoe is a masterpiece first published in 1719 with original name: "The life and strange surprising adventures" (AKA: The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe), written by Daniel Defoe from United Kingdom. In years later this novel was published, it had been translated into many languages and widely circulated around the world, including adapted into movies and TV series many times.

I guess you probably know the film The Shawshank Redemption (1994) directed by Frank Darabont, starred by Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins which is well-known all around the world and has been elected to the American Film Institute's 100 Greatest Movies (of course in the Top 250 movies of IMDb).

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is one master work of famous French writer Alexandre Dumas. In the past about ten years, I have almost watched all kinds of movies adapted from the original nearly hundred times, just like "The Shawshank Redemption".