Harper Lee
Born
in Monroeville, Alabama, The United States
April 28, 1926
Died
February 19, 2016
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“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
Polls
April 2016 Revisit the Shelf-Reread Poll
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, 288 pages, 1963
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 324 pages, 1960
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, 539 pages, 1980
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, 251 pages, 1817
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, 273 pages, 1818
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, 592 pages, 1957
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, 320 pages, 1984
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 311 pages, 1883
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, 311 pages, 1985
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, 227 pages, 1953
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, 277 pages, 1951
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, 320 pages, 1719
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, 256 pages, 1902
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 867 pages, 1847
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, 306 pages, 1726
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 502 pages, 1851
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