To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee's Pulitzer-winning story of childhood, conscience, and racial injustice in the Depression-era South.
Harper Lee’s only novel for most of her life won the Pulitzer Prize and became a fixture of American classrooms. Narrated by young Scout Finch in Depression-era Alabama, it follows her father Atticus as he defends a Black man falsely accused of rape, and turns a child’s-eye view into a lasting study of conscience, prejudice, and moral courage. Taylor Swift has said the book changed the way she looked at life, crediting it among the reads that shaped her as a storyteller.
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Bob Odenkirk
You already know this. Lyrical writing. A child's point of view, but done with intelligence and sensitivity, and a lesson at the end that is the only lesson you ever need to know to become a good person. So say I.
Article · October 2014
Shami Chakrabarti
I’ve really picked this book because it just shows you that in the end great fiction can probably move more people than legislation or political speeches. A great novel can inspire people to do all sorts of great work, and I am sure that amongst my friends, and lawyers in particular, if they were asked to pick a book that’s had a profound influence on them it would be this.
Interview · December 2010
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