To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee · 1960

In Depression-era Alabama, young Scout Finch watches her father Atticus defend a Black man falsely accused of rape, while she and her brother Jem untangle their own fears about the reclusive neighbor Boo Radley.

Books mentioned in To Kill a Mockingbird (6)

• Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: “Jem sat down in a cane-bottom chair and opened Ivanhoe.”
• Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone: “"Blackstone's Commentaries." Jem was thunderstruck.”
• The Gray Ghost by Robert F. Schulkers: “The Gray Ghost, by Seckatary Hawkins.”
• Tarzan and the Ant Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: “requests to enact a chapter of Tarzan and the Ant Men”
• Tom Swift by Victor Appleton: “That Tom Swift book, it ain't mine, it's Dill's...”
• The Rover Boys by Arthur M. Winfield: “Crabtree in The Rover Boys”

Books that mention To Kill a Mockingbird (3)

• The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green: “In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch defines courage by saying, "It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway."”
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky: “Incidentally, the book is To Kill a Mockingbird.”
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett: “I been on the waiting list for To Kill a Mockingbird at the Carver Library near bout three months now.”