To Kill a Mockingbird
American novelist, 1926–2016. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1960 novel by Harper Lee. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961.
On 11 of the 17 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Harper Lee
- First published
- 1960
- Length
- 320 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, 1961
- National Book Award for Fiction shortlist, 1961
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Coming of age, Southern gothic
Is To Kill a Mockingbird worth reading?
11 of the 17 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Readers' top 100 novels (The Guardian).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (Amazon.co.uk, 2014) | Listed | See the list |
| 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph, 2009) | No. 99 | See the list |
| 100 novels that shaped our world (BBC Arts, 2019) | Listed | See the list |
| All-Time 100 Novels (Time, 2005) | Listed | See the list |
| National Book Award for Fiction (winners and finalists) (National Book Foundation, 1961) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (winners and finalists) (Columbia University, 1961) | Winner | See the list |
| Readers' top 100 novels (The Guardian, 2026) | No. 5 | See the list |
| The 100 best novels written in English (The Guardian / Observer, 2015) | Listed | See the list |
| The 100 greatest novels of all time (The Observer, 2003) | Listed | See the list |
| The Big Read top 100 (BBC, 2003) | No. 6 | See the list |
| The Great American Read (PBS, 2018) | Listed | See the list |
Best edition of To Kill a Mockingbird
The edition we link to is the Arrow paperback (2010), 320 pages.
- Publisher
- Arrow (paperback, 2010)
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN
- 9780099549482
How critics, prizes and readers rate To Kill a Mockingbird
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 83% of the points available on prize lists, against 77% on readers' and booksellers' lists and 43% on critics' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like To Kill a Mockingbird
If you liked To Kill a Mockingbird, try Go Set a Watchman, Ulysses or The Catcher in the Rye.
