To Kill a Mockingbird

Updated: 7 Sep 2020

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Harper Lee's classic novel of a lawyer in the Deep South defending a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and been made into an enormously popular movie. Most recently, librarians across the country gave the book the highest of honors by voting it the best novel of the twentieth century.

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Sarah Hyland

Actress

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3 years ago

Favorite books: "'To Kill a Mockingbird,' 'The Outsiders,' anything by S.E. Hinton. I love 'Rumble Fish' as well. 'The Red Tent.'"

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Oprah Winfrey

TV Host, Interviewer

156 followers

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over 5 years ago

"I remember reading this book and then going to class and not being able to shut up about it. I read it in eighth or ninth grade, and I was trying to push the book off on other kids. So it makes sense to me that now I have a book club, because I have been doing that since probably this book."

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David Baldacci

Writer

7 followers

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almost 5 years ago

As for literary fiction, it was Huckleberry Finn and To Kill A Mockingbird. Again, kids in adult situations always fascinated me.

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Sarah Jessica Parker

Actress

136 followers

105 FLIISTs

over 5 years ago

The book you read in school that positively shaped you? - To Kill A Mockingbird.

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Emily Ratajkowski

Actress, Model

42 followers

164 FLIISTs

5 years ago

Like, I remember the first novel that really made an impact on me was To Kill a Mockingbird, which is an obvious one." Unlike most of us, who were reading the book as a requirement for English class, Ratajkowski was reading it for fun at 8-years-old. "My mom was really into it and she had given it to me," she explains.

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Peter Dinklage

Actor

35 followers

37 FLIISTs

over 4 years ago

“I have a huge soft spot in my heart for Atticus Finch.”

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Emily Blunt

Actress

60 followers

58 FLIISTs

5 years ago

I think a good book can change your life. I think To Kill a Mockingbird is a book that did that.

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Jessica Chastain

Actress

22 followers

96 FLIISTs

over 4 years ago

"My favorite book has already been made into a movie, and that's (Harper Lee's) 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' It's perfection as it is. And also I don't want to say (another one), because if it's a book that I love, I don't want someone else to find it and then make it into a movie before I can."

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Bob Odenkirk

Actor

3 followers

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11 months ago

A child's point of view, but done with intelligence and sensitivity, and a lesson at the end that is the only lesson you ever need to know to become a good person. So say I.

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Niall Horan

Musician

6 followers

37 FLIISTs

3 years ago

Contrary to popular belief, To Kill a Mockingbird isn't the only book Niall has ever read. At least not anymore... "It’s changed but up until three years ago it was the only book I’d ever read. It was for English [class] so I had to read it. To sound intellectual anytime I got asked in an interview if I’d read books before, I’d say ‘yeah, To Kill A Mockingbird’. [Since then] I’ve read a couple of sports biographies.”

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John Krasinski

Actor

18 followers

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1 year ago

Favorite book growing up? To Kill a Mockingbird, without a doubt. It was the first time I was exposed to that level of literature that early. I think I was in 5th or 6th grade when I read it, so it was the first time I remember feeling my brain breaking in a sort of bigger idea and a bigger concept of humanity.

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