We have chosen for the September book an American classic that has its 50th anniversary this year-To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird was Harper Lee's only novel, but one that captured the country when it was published and is still greatly loved and admired today. If you have read it in the past-maybe in school- or you have never read it before, please join us in reading it this September and join us, if you can to discuss it.
Here are some things to think about:
What has made this book so popular for fifty years?
What does it say about America, its history, its people, its values?
Why does it continue to be popular across generations?
What is it about this "first novel" that makes it so unique?
Does it reflect the way things really were in the America that Harper Lee captured?
What is it that makes this a "teaching novel" as well as a good read?
And here is a peek at the rest of the year's books!
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