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THE CATCHER IN THE RYE: 24 Foreign Covers

Beyond the iconic cover: A round-up of The Catcher in the Rye foreign covers.

Jamie Canaves Mar 3, 2016

Jamie Canaves

Contributing Editor

Jamie Canavés is the Tailored Book Recommendations coordinator and Unusual Suspects mystery newsletter writer — in case you’re wondering what you do with a Liberal Arts degree. She’s never met a beach she didn’t like, always says yes to dessert, loves ‘80s nostalgia, all forms of entertainment, and can hold a conversation using only gifs. You can always talk books with her on Bluesky, Litsy, Goodreads, and her substack Multitudes Contained.

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As a kid I was always intrigued by family members reading translated books: American classics in Spanish; Latin American works in English. I was most curious to see how the title translated and the different cover images, which is something I never grew out of. And now thanks to the Internet, seeing book covers for works translated in different countries is usually just an easy search away. Which brings me to The Catcher in the Rye: a book with an iconic cover.

To be honest I couldn’t think of a different cover so when Kelly suggested a cover round-up I was all over finding the foreign covers for The Catcher in the Rye.