To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

Hardcover, 281 pages

English language

Published Dec. 12, 1982 by Warner Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-673-58350-5

(35 reviews)

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award winning film, also a classic.

Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD takes readers to the roots of human behavior—to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 15 million copies in print and translated into ten languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.

3 editions

Maxzor reviewed To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

A great novel

5 stars

A wonderful tale on racism and violence

Mountaineerdave reviewed To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Maybe my new Greatest American Novel….

5 stars

Having never read this book before (I didn’t choose it in school, and it wasn’t assigned), I can say that it was GREAT. I loved everything about this book. Literally everything. Is it my favorite American Novel (tm)? Possibly. Quite possibly indeed.