The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger about a disgruntled teenager: Holden Caulfield. It's often referenced in The Simpsons. Long before he created The Simpsons Matt Groening wrote a novel, I Was A Teenage Malcontent, later retitled Mean Kids, which was based on The Catcher in the Rye and whose main character was named Bart Simpson.

References to The Catcher in the Rye in Simpsons books
The novel is mentioned in Lisa's Made for the Shade Summertime Reading List, published in The Simpsons Ultra-Jumbo Rain-or-Shine Fun Book.

References to The Catcher in the Rye in Simpsons video games
In The Simpsons: Tapped Out, more specifically the section The Simpsons: Tapped Out "Mathlete's Feat" episode tie-in content update the novel is mentioned in Print is Dead Pt. 4, when Seymour Skinner says that a monthly book burning is mandatory in the school board: "It's something to distract the Huck Finn-haters and Catcher In The Rye-oters."