Just began re-reading TKM. I bought the beautiful hard-cover 35th anniversary edition but it sat on my bookshelf. This book is so blended with the movie version–it’s hard not to read anything Atticus Finch says and not get a mental picture of Gregory Peck.
November 20, 2007
November 19, 2007
If you liked To Kill a Mockingbird…
If you’d like to read works by authors admired by Harper Lee, you might enjoy:
Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park (1814)
Truman Capote’s The Grass Harp (1951)
Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
If you’d like to read other books set in the South, you might enjoy:
Olive Ann Burns’ Cold Sassy Tree (1984)
Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)
If you’d like to read other coming-of-age novels, you might enjoy:
Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women (1868)
John Knowles’ A Separate Peace (1959)
November 16, 2007
Hello Anchorage! Let’s read a book!
Welcome to The Big Read. Copies of To Kill a Mockingbird can be found at Anchorage Public Library.
Please visit the Discussion Pages to discuss various aspects of To Kill a Mockingbird with other members of the community.
