To Kill a Mockingbird
A story about moral courage told through a child's eyes. It will make you believe in justice even when justice fails.
Justice in Maycomb
Harper Lee's 1960 Pulitzer Prize winner follows Scout Finch, a young girl in 1930s Alabama, as her father Atticus defends a Black man falsely accused of a terrible crime. Through Scout's innocent gaze we see prejudice, compassion, and the quiet heroism of doing right when it costs everything. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961 and was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film in 1962. It has sold over 40 million copies worldwide.
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"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
"Harper Lee
Harper Lee wrote the novel in the late 1950s after her childhood friend Truman Capote helped her secure a year off work via a gift of money to write full time. It was published in 1960 to instant acclaim.
The novel spent over 80 weeks on the bestseller list. It was voted the best novel of the 20th century in several polls and remains a staple of school curricula across the English-speaking world.