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Books Like To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee · about this book

Loved To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee? If its classics, child narrator and first person narrator hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Snow Falling on Cedars, A Painted House and A Calamity of Souls. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside To Kill a Mockingbird: Classics · Child Narrator · First Person Narrator · American South · Racism

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   Snow Falling on Cedars

   David Guterson

   Wrongful Conviction · Courtroom · Courtroom Drama · Racism · Small Town

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   A Painted House

   John Grisham

   Loss of Innocence · Child Narrator · American South · Coming of Age · Character-Driven

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   A Calamity of Souls

   David Baldacci

   Wrongful Conviction · Courtroom · Courtroom Drama · Racism · American South

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   Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

   Mildred D. Taylor

   Bildungsroman · Loss of Innocence · Racism · Child Narrator · Coming of Age

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5. 

   The Round House

   Louise Erdrich

   Loss of Innocence · Racism · Coming of Age · Courtroom Drama · Small Town

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6. 

   A Separate Peace

   John Knowles

   Loss of Innocence · Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · Nostalgic · Bittersweet

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7. 

   The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

   Carson McCullers

   Racism · American South · Coming of Age · Small Town · Classics

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8. 

   The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

   Christopher Paul Curtis

   Loss of Innocence · Child Narrator · Racism · Coming of Age · American South

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9. 

   Where the Crawdads Sing

   Delia Owens

   Bildungsroman · Courtroom Drama · Coming of Age · Courtroom · American South

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10. 

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Mark Twain

    Child Narrator · Bildungsroman · Racism · American South · Coming of Age

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11. 

    Black Swan Green

    David Mitchell

    Child Narrator · Loss of Innocence · Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · Nostalgic

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12. 

    The Learning Tree

    Gordon Parks

    Loss of Innocence · Bildungsroman · Racism · Coming of Age · Courtroom Drama

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13. 

    The Catcher in the Rye

    Jerome David Salinger

    Loss of Innocence · Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · Classics · Nostalgic

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14. 

    A Lesson Before Dying

    Ernest J. Gaines

    Wrongful Conviction · Courtroom · Racism · American South · Classics

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15. 

    The Outsiders

    S.E. Hinton

    Loss of Innocence · Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · Classics · Character-Driven

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16. 

    Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

    Fannie Flagg

    American South · Racism · Small Town · Nostalgic · Bittersweet

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17. 

    The Silver Star

    Jeannette Walls

    Bildungsroman · Coming of Age · American South · Loss of Innocence · Character-Driven

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18. 

    Intruder in the Dust

    William Faulkner

    Wrongful Conviction · Racism · American South · Coming of Age · Classics

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19. 

    The Cat's Table

    Michael Ondaatje

    Child Narrator · Loss of Innocence · Coming of Age · Nostalgic · Character-Driven

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20. 

    A Fine Dark Line

    Joe R. Lansdale

    Loss of Innocence · Coming of Age · Racism · American South · Nostalgic

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