Really? I can see three of these but Catcher is a classic.

I think that Catcher and Slaughterhouse are highly over rated.

I find Holden to be one of the whiniest and most entitled characters in all literature. I spent most of the book wanting to slap him. So yeah, no love for Catcher.

Actually obnoxious leading characters seems to be my issue with most of these books. Tess - perpetual victim whose life is just one gigantic pitiful drama made worse by her own choices. Bella - total victim complex that results in her perpetually having to be saved by her controlling, stalkerish boyfriend. Along with her just being bitchy towards half the world.

As for DaVinci Code, I just thought it was really poorly written.

Robert Langdon is an art history teacher and is clearly no ones victim.

Yes, but he was so well written in Angels and Demons, actually the whole book was well written. In DaVinci Code the writing was sloppy, pedantic, and immature.

I mean if we're talking in terms of legit literature, neither book is any good. If we're talking in terms of readability I felt that both were amazing and equally good, but I was not reading things as critically as I am now, but the world seems to disagree as the later outsold the former.