Bookshelf ABC - A

A Time to Kill by John Grisham is on par with To Kill A Mockingbird. Because I read this book first, nothing he has written since has ever measured up for me.Beautifully composed and powerfully thought provoking, it opens with the brutal murder of young black girl by two white men. The wounds of the racial divide in a southern town reopen with a fury and an attorney finds himself in the storm.

I haven't yet read Sycamore Row, Grisham's novel inspired by A Time to Kill, so I can't comment on its quality. Yet, despite my disappointment in his works that have followed A Time to Kill, I'm  tempted to read it.





What are the best A novels (titles begin with the letter A) you've read? Return the favor and help me with my reading list.