Catcher in the Rye was a classic and well ahead of its time in terms of teenage alienation themes. I loved it as a teenage but as an adult not so much.
In the Sun Also Rises, the protagonist can’t get laid because he was rendered physically incapable by being wounded in World War I.
Yes, some may think so, but consider: We were all a bunch of hormones with legs in HS and we were supposed to read a book about a guy trying to get his hormones satiated! I was like, "Man, I know all about this crap! I don't need Holden Caulfield's pitiful existence to mirror my own!"......................