Books like Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

If you liked Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird by Harold Bloom, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    Betty Smith · 1943

    Because shares tags: classics, american literature.

    Francie Nolan grows up poor in 1910s Williamsburg, reading on fire escapes while her family scrapes by, and learns how schooling can lift…

  2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Mark Twain · 1884

    Because shares tags: classics, american literature.

    Huck Finn fakes his death, floats the Mississippi with the runaway Jim, and tears up the letter that would betray him. Twain's river…

  3. Slaughterhouse-Five

    Kurt Vonnegut · 1969

    Because shares tags: classics, american literature.

    Billy Pilgrim slips through time from Dresden to Tralfamadore in Vonnegut's short antiwar classic.

  4. Of Mice and Men

    John Steinbeck · 1937

    Because shares tags: classics, american literature.

    Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men retold: George and Lennie on a California ranch, the dream farm, and why mercy ends it.

  5. Little Women

    Louisa May Alcott · 1868

    Because shares tags: classics, american literature.

    Alcott's Little Women retold: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March through the Civil War years and beyond.

  6. The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925

    Because shares tags: classics, american literature.

    The Great Gatsby through Nick Carraway: Gatsby's parties, the green light, Daisy and Tom, and why Fitzgerald's 1925 novel ends as a…

  7. To Kill a Mockingbird

    Harper Lee · 1960

    Because shares tags: classics, american literature.

    To Kill a Mockingbird through the eyes of Scout Finch: Maycomb's slow days, Atticus's defense of Tom Robinson, the Boo Radley mystery, and…

  8. War and Peace

    Leo Tolstoy · 1869

    Because shares tag: classics.

    Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei search for meaning amid the Napoleonic wars.

  9. Things Fall Apart

    Chinua Achebe · 1958

    Because shares tag: classics.

    Proud Igbo wrestler Okonkwo rises in 1890s Umuofia, then loses standing through hard exile, a son's conversion, and British missionaries…

  10. Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Zora Neale Hurston · 1937

    Because shares tag: classics.

    Janie Crawford tells Pheoby about Eatonville life with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks called Jody, and Tea Cake.

  11. The Trial

    Franz Kafka · 1925

    Because shares tag: classics.

    Josef K. is arrested one morning on an unknown charge and pulled into an endless court he can never leave.

  12. The Three Musketeers

    Alexandre Dumas · 1844 · The d'Artagnan Romances #1

    Because shares tag: classics.

    Young dArtagnan joins Athos, Porthos and Aramis to recover the queens diamonds and face Milady.

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