Year: 1960
Number of Pages: 296
Reading Level: 8th grade
Review:
I don't think I could ever read this book too many times. I've spent countless hours reading it, pulling it apart, analyzing it, and it still brings me to tears and lifts my spirits. In fact, in collecting books for this blog, I realized that I own three copies of it.
To Kill a Mockingbird is infused with such beautiful prose and imagery that I'm taken on an adventure every time I open its pages. I learn something new about each character every time I read it, and the lessons that serve as the themes are remarkable. One remarkable thing about this book is how actively it avoids being preachy or self-righteous, it carries its moral compass proudly but subtly, much like lead character Atticus Finch. I consider this to be a must-read for anyone.
Questionable Themes:
Objectionable Language (racial slurs)
Books Like To Kill a Mockingbird:
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Summary:
The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it. 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 18 million copies in print and translated into forty 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.
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