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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Goodbye to All That
1929 · 347 pages
Reported dead to his family at the Somme, Graves came home from the trenches unable to sleep. This is his farewell to England and to the whole world that sent him there.
★ 6.6