Books like To Kill a Mockingbird

If you liked To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Zora Neale Hurston · 1937

    Because shares tags: classics, literary fiction, coming of age.

    Janie Crawford tells Pheoby about Eatonville life with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks called Jody, and Tea Cake.

  2. All Quiet on the Western Front

    Erich Maria Remarque · 1929

    Because shares tags: classics, coming of age, literary fiction.

    Paul Bäumer enlists at nineteen and faces the trenches of World War I in Remarque's 1929 classic, told from the German side of the wire.

  3. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    Betty Smith · 1943

    Because shares tags: classics, coming of age, american literature.

    Francie Nolan grows up poor in 1910s Williamsburg, reading on fire escapes while her family scrapes by, and learns how schooling can lift…

  4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Mark Twain · 1884

    Because shares tags: classics, american literature, coming of age.

    Huck Finn fakes his death, floats the Mississippi with the runaway Jim, and tears up the letter that would betray him. Twain's river…

  5. Little Women

    Louisa May Alcott · 1868

    Because shares tags: classics, coming of age, american literature.

    Alcott's Little Women retold: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March through the Civil War years and beyond.

  6. The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925

    Because shares tags: classics, american literature, literary fiction.

    The Great Gatsby through Nick Carraway: Gatsby's parties, the green light, Daisy and Tom, and why Fitzgerald's 1925 novel ends as a…

  7. The Catcher in the Rye

    J. D. Salinger · 1951

    Because shares tags: classics, coming of age, literary fiction.

    J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye explained: Holden's weekend in New York, the phony adults, Phoebe's carousel, and why readers keep…

  8. White Oleander

    Janet Fitch · 1999

    Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.

    Astrid cycles foster homes after mother Ingrid murders boyfriend.

  9. Things Fall Apart

    Chinua Achebe · 1958

    Because shares tags: classics, literary fiction.

    Proud Igbo wrestler Okonkwo rises in 1890s Umuofia, then loses standing through hard exile, a son's conversion, and British missionaries…

  10. The Virgin Suicides

    Jeffrey Eugenides · 1993

    Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.

    Five Lisbon sisters die in 1970s Grosse Pointe as boys watch.

  11. The Master and Margarita

    Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967

    Because shares tags: classics, literary fiction.

    Devil Woland visits 1930s Moscow while Master writes Pilate and Margarita bargains.

  12. The Karamazov Brothers

    Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880

    Because shares tags: classics, literary fiction.

    Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha Karamazov face their father, murder, faith, and doubt in Dostoevsky's final novel.

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