To kill a mocking bird - Harper Lee

Published in 1960,the novel bagged The Pulitzer Prize in 1961. It's a required high school  text in America and Canada. This classic novel is set in South America during the 1930's. The only one novel written by Harper Lee, it covers issues like rape , racism , courage , compassion , prejudice and hypocrisy. And she chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child with a rare kind of humor and irony. It's designed to make people think and act. Yes , it's important to walk around in someone else's shoes in order to truly understand them.


Definitely one of those books you should read before you die.