To Kill a Mockingbird

Name: To Kill a Mockingbird
Rating: 4.529390811920166 (2790 reviews)

Harper Lee

Jul 2014 · Sold by Harper Collins

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

"One of the most—if not the most—beloved of American novels." —The New Yorker

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 fifty million copies worldwide, 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, Scout Finch, as her father, Atticus—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.

Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice—but the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read "One of the most—if not the most—beloved of American novels." —The New Yorker 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 hatre...

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2.79K reviews

Daniel Hahn

June 25, 2026

not a fan at all. I know someone that hates this book somuch that they erased the story from their mind. I don't like it at all. I'm only giving 2 stars because there are worse books. But I probably wouldn't recommend this book to anybody. If it was free I could think about maybe reading it just so that you could understand some references that people use. But the references are not common so I'd say not to read this book. Unless, of course, you are a fan of tomboys in your story and some other things that I think are junk

Erlinda Mandih

June 22, 2019

Disappointing. It wasn't heartfelt as I thought it would be. The characters pestered me all the way through the end. With Atticus acting like he was wise when in reality, he doesn't really care about his children and only cares about his reputation. He knows nothing of life and the circumstance where Ewell single-handedly and practically murdered his children and injured his son while miracuously surviving is just the author's way of saying this-guy-gets-an-exception-because-he-is-a-vital-character. Now take a pensive comprehension of the plot. Hypocritism at its finest, eh? You know, Harper Lee is like the author rakes up leaves in her yard and then shakes the trees afterwards. And that while it is inexorable for Atticus to change his perception, Harper could have been more realistic and ended their lives. And to be frank likewise, this is just rudimentarily based upon the petty arguments and absurd use of racism in the 21st century.

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Allaina Jaffe

April 9, 2026

I read this in high school. It's a good book. I would give it five stars if it told (closer to) everything, even in fiction form. It has a message about hard times that still go on in some different forms today. We read books that have details that are very graphic but educational, even in fiction form, even tougher than this book. This is a situation where the same should be written in a book more often...even as fiction. This book is nothing, even if it's something for a sheltered person.

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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