To kill a mockingbird

by Harper Lee

Paper Book, 2004

Series

To Kill a Mockingbird (1)

Genres

Collection

Read but unowned

Description

The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.

Awards

National Book Award (Finalist — Fiction — 1961)
Pulitzer Prize (Winner — Fiction — 1961)
Audie Award (Finalist — Classics — 2007)
Alabama Author Award (Fiction — 1961)
NCSLMA Battle of the Books (Middle School — 2020)
47 more
Whitcoulls Top 100 Books (9 — 2010)
Rant Lifestyle's 25 Greatest Books of All Time (1)
The Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read (Crime)
Notable Books List (1960)
ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound (Fiction — 1999)
IMBA's 100 Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Century
The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels: The Readers' List (5)
Koen Book Distributors Top 100 Books of the Past Century (1)
The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time Mystery Writers of America (60)
The Great American Read (1)
Time's All-Time 100 Novels selection
Oxford American Best Southern Books of All Time (5)
Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century (4)
ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999 (40)
Waterstones Books of the Century (7 — 1997)
UC Berkeley Summer Reading List (2002)
Library of Congress Books that Shaped America
100 Must-Read Classics By Women (1960)
125 Great Southern Books (6)
ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000 (41)
ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000-2009 (21)
The 100 Favorite Novels of Librarians (2)
Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List (40 — 2009)
Harvard Book Store Top 100 (23)
The Observer's 100 Best Novels (78)
Great Reads from Great Places (2011, 2010, 2003)
The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time (73)
Uncovered Classics (1960)
St. Mark's additional 100 best English language novels of the XX century
Books From All 50 States (and Washington, D.C.!)
From Zero to Well-Read in 100 Books
Publishing Triangle 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Novels
Erica Jong's Top 100 20th Century Novels by Women
The Essential Man's Library: 100 Must-Read Books
Brooklyn Magazine's Literary United States
Christianity Today's Books of the Century
The Telegraph's 100 novels everyone should read (99)
Quintessential American Fiction, According to the Rest of the World (4)
Books To Read Aloud with Children Twelve & Over
Museums, Libraries, and Archives Society's "30 Books Every Adult Should Read Before They Die" (1)
Oxford American Most Underrated Southern Books
NEA Big Read (2009)
40 best books to read before you die
ABA Journal 25 Greatest Law Novels Ever (1)
100 books that everyone should read according to Dmitry Bykov
What’s the Best Book of the Past 125 Years? We Asked Readers to Decide. (1)
A Century of Reading by LitHub

Language

English

Original publication date

1960

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