To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is a wonderful novel that wears its heart and meaning on its sleeve.  It has everything you could want: a unique and lively setting that shapes the story, strongly drawn characters who propel the plot, and a storyline that moves crisply but not blindly to its culmination.  This is another book I am glad to have had the opportunity and reason to reread as an adult.