To Kill a Mockingbird

Name: To Kill a Mockingbird
Rating: 4.530194282531738 (2782 reviews)

Harper Lee

Jul 2014 · Harper Collins

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Look for The Land of Sweet Forever, a posthumous collection of newly discovered short stories and previously published essays and magazine pieces by Harper Lee, coming October 21, 2025.

Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read

Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred

One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.

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4.5

2.78K reviews

Carlos Garcia

June 11, 2025

Wow. Just wow. This book was beautiful, touching, and gripping. I fully enjoyed the coming of age aspect and the mystery surrounding their neighbor Boo. Surprisingly, the book touched on the case before Atticus, but it didn't take over the book like I thought it would. Tom's story leads to the morality and development of the story of the children and Atticus, but it doesn't overpower. All the characters, love them or hate them, were very well written and I liked them all. My absolute favorite was Scout. She was funny and kept me laughing. Her smart mouth was very humorous. The ending was touching and made for a smile to show on my face. Highly recommended. A classic for a reason. 4.7/5

Jerry Betancourt IV

June 25, 2022

I vividly remember being assigned this book to read, during my English 11R class in high school. Even at that age I was touched by how well written this book was. It basically transported myself to the late 1920's- the mid 1930's & allowed me to really feel the times, described in this (excuse my praise) but Literary Masterpiece! Harper Lee gets into your mind (if you are an avid reader) & makes you feel sympathy for a time long gone in American history & EVERYONE needs to read this so that the new generations DON'T forget what our country once was...

A Google user

February 4, 2015

...in the pages of this book. Though times have changed since its release, you still can't go wrong following the "what is popular is not always right; what is right is not always popular" example of Atticus Finch.Profoundly insightful & remarkably decent, he is, IMO, the best character ever written. I often quote him in speeches so my 60¢ paperback from 1963 has been thumbed through & read so frequently that the brittle, yellowed pages have separated from the spine. My absolute favorite book/character.

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About the author

Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. One of America’s most celebrated and influential writers, she is the author of the acclaimed novels To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman as well as the story and essay collection, The Land of Sweet Forever, published posthumously in 2025. Lee was awarded numerous literary awards and honors including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She died in 2016 at the age of eight-nine.

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