To Kill a Mockingbird

"A powerful and enduring piece of literature." - Boston Globe

"The names Scout and Atticus-and, perhaps above all, the name Harper-reflect a respect not just for the arc of history, but for the hope that it does indeed bend toward justice." - The Atlantic

"One of the most-if not the most-beloved of American novels." - New Yorker

"A seminal American story, a touchstone of racial tolerance. . . . It's a book determined to make young readers feel like grownups. . . and grownups feel like children in their petty grievances and prejudices." - USA Today

"The enduring appeal of Mockingbird lies not only in the plot or characters; the book is a mirror, a source of endless and revelatory conversation about who we are and have been as a country." - Washington Post

"The rare classic that speaks to all ages about the less triumphant aspects of American history." - Time

"A first novel of such rare excellence that it will no doubt make a great many readers slow down to relish more fully its simple distinction. . . . A novel of strong contemporary national significance." - Chicago Tribune

"All of the tactile brilliance and none of the precocity generally supposed to be standard swamp-warfare issues for Southern writers. . . . Novelist Lee's prose has an edge that cuts through cant, and she teaches the reader an astonishing number of useful truths about little girls and about Southern life." - Time (1960 review)