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Fiction · Coming of age

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee
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