Mandatory Book

If I were to make one book required reading for every person on the planet, I would choose "The Catcher In The Rye". I would not choose this book because I like it, on the contrary, I hated it very much. I would choose it because, love it or hate it, everyone I know who has read it seems to have a fairly strong opinion on it and I would like to hear some from different cultural perspectives. If everyone were to read this book, I would hope the world would change due to people learning lessons such as one should not be a presumptuous jerk, or that thinking that oneself is better than other people is not an excuse to do whatever you want.