To Kill a Mockingbird
1960 · 376 pages
Scout Finch's father, a lawyer in a small Alabama town, defends a Black man accused of raping a white woman. The trial reaches you through a child who understands less than you do.
★ 8.6
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The Caine Mutiny
1951 · 537 pages
Missing strawberries send Captain Queeg hunting a duplicate key through his own ship, and in a typhoon his executive officer takes command. Wouk's trial asks what a crew owes a failing captain.
★ 6.0