To Kill a Mockingbird

Name: To Kill a Mockingbird
Rating: 8.47 (1117 reviews)
ISBN: 9780060935467

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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Published Mar 5, 2002

336 pages

Average rating: 8.47

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Readers say *To Kill a Mockingbird* is a timeless, powerful classic that vividly captures racial discrimination and social class through Scout’s innoc...

JJM

Apr 10, 2026

10/10 stars

Loved this! Timeless story, relevant even in 2019

wheretheheckismyjello

Nov 19, 2025

8/10 stars

Basically Harper Lee came in, dropped this and blew everyone's minds, and then dipped because really what else can you write after this major banger???? Look, the themes are not subtle and the story is not complicated. BUT GODDAMN IT STICKS!!! Because it is so very based on the truth, and how the truth often doesn't matter in the face of what people want to believe. Peak assigned school reading.

Across the Globe Book Buddies

Oct 19, 2025

10/10 stars

Loved. This. Book! I didn’t realize I had never read it,had only seen the movie. As is typically the case: the book was better! Gawwwd I love Scout! (Both the character in TKaM and my little girl

Ra3xllo

May 30, 2026

9/10 stars

Classic. Wow.

foreveryum

May 20, 2026

8/10 stars

One of the recent novels I read referenced this book many times, and I realized that I had only read the CliffNotes summary of this classic in high school - haha. I'm glad to have read it now. I enjoyed the lessons Atticus imparted on his children about doing what's right, compassionate, and courageous. It covers topics of racial discrimination and classism of the 1930s through the innocence of a child's point of view, who could make observations that an adult would avoid or sugarcoat. It was an engaging story.