To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
21 people recommended it in 15 threads, 2007–2024.
What people on Hacker News said
Not sure I can write anything here that has not been written a million times already, but suffice to say there is a reason why it’s in every “best of all time” lists. It’s a deeply human story with lots of twists and turns and told masterfully.
Quite frankly that both introduced me to racism and taught me to strongly condemn it. I also learnt the value of education and the utility of appropriate conduct.
The timeless beauty and innocence of the book remains unparalleled.
But in high school, some of the books we read were Nineteen-Eighty-Four (liberating power of sexuality is a theme), To Kill a Mockingbird (rape trial in the Jim Crow south), Huckleberry Finn (often considered racist in contemporary American society due to its frequent use of the n-word) and the Handmaid's Tale (rape and gender relations and racism).
Where it comes up
- Ask HN: Best book you read in 2011 2011 · 3 recommendations
- Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read? 2024 · 2 recommendations
- Florida teachers could face felony for books in classroom not approved by state 2023 · 2 recommendations
- Ask HN: What's one book that changed your life? 2018 · 2 recommendations
- Ask HN: Books you read in 2015? 2015 · 2 recommendations
- Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything? 2019 · 1 recommendation
- Ask HN: Which book have you re-read the most times? how many times? 2018 · 1 recommendation
- Ask HN: Books you read in 2017? 2017 · 1 recommendation
- Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift? 2016 · 1 recommendation
- Ask HN: What is the most mind blowing book you've ever read? 2015 · 1 recommendation
- Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days? 2015 · 1 recommendation
- Ask HN: What is the best fiction book you've ever read? 2013 · 1 recommendation
- Ask HN: Best books you read in 2012 2012 · 1 recommendation
- Books That Changed My Life 2008 · 1 recommendation
- What books would you recommend reading? Why? 2007 · 1 recommendation