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  1. My current #BookAtBedtime is #ToKillAMockingbird by #HarperLee. It’s a #Book that I first read at secondary school for English Literature class and I’m really enjoying reading it again. I like the clear writing and linear structure of the narrative.

  2. Re-reading To Kill a Mockingbird and finishing it in one sitting—again.

    It remains one of the most challenged books in the U.S., largely due to its portrayal of race and injustice.

    That discomfort is precisely the point.

    Literature that endures tends to ask questions people would rather avoid.

    #BannedBooks #Literature #ToKillAMockingbird #FreedomToRead #ClassicBooks

  3. Currently reading: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Although I’ve seen the movie more recently, I haven’t read the book since high school so I am looking forward to revisiting it from a 2025 perspective. #bookstodon #StoryGraph #ToKillAMockingbird #HarperLee #currentlyreading #ReadBannedBooks

  4. 23 books that shaped you in high school – NPR

    Special Series

    Books You Love

    What books shaped you in high school? Here’s what you said

    August 28, 20255:00 AM ET, By Beth Novey, Meghan Collins Sullivan, and Andrew Limbong

    Maansi Srivastava/NPR

    This summer, we asked you to tell us about the books you read in high school that profoundly affected you. It turns out you had a lot to share. More than 1,100 of you wrote back to tell us about the formative texts you were assigned as teens.

    You told us about books that broadened your perspectives and stuck with you as you got older. These dog-eared volumes got packed and unpacked every time you moved homes. They led you to become English majors, librarians, writers, teachers and editors. They inspired tattoos, pet names and baby names. Many of you shouted out the English teachers who, decades ago, pressed these texts into your hands, your heads and your hearts.

    We’re sharing your thoughts here. This list reflects a time when fewer female authors and writers of color were being published and assigned in high schools — and many of you expressed hope that today’s syllabuses are more varied and diverse.

    So, at the start of a new school year, with gratitude to English teachers past, present and future, here’s what you told us about the books that shaped you.

    Readers’ responses have been lightly edited for length and clarity.

    Two books came up far more often than any of the others:

    Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    Reading about racism from the perspective of a child — 6-year-old narrator Scout Finch in Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1960 novel — was an eye-opening experience for many who responded. Steve Kennebeck, 65, of Ranchos de Taos, N.M., was in seventh grade when his family moved from San Diego to Memphis, Tenn. “Not long after I arrived, my English teacher, sensing I was having difficulty adjusting, asked how I was doing. … I told her I didn’t like the humidity and that I didn’t understand why all the Black kids seemed so angry. She reached for the bookshelf and handed me a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird and said: ‘Read this — it will help you understand.'” Christopher Anderson, 60, of Gloucester, Mass., felt such a connection to Scout’s lawyer father that he named his first child Atticus. Nathaniel Hardman, 41, of Midvale, Utah, acknowledges: “I know some object to the ‘white savior’ narrative. That’s fine. Let that be part of the discussion.”

    Signet Classics

    1984 by George Orwell
    Whitney Todaro, 44, of Louisville, Colo., remembers being so upset by the ending of 1984 that she threw the book across the room. Many of you told us that George Orwell’s dystopian novel encouraged you to think critically, question authority and be wary of state surveillance. There was a strong consensus that high schoolers should still be reading the book today. “More important than ever — but retitle it to 2025,” writes Thom Haynes, 65, of Apex, N.C. Rayson Lorrey, 73, of Rochester, Minn., says, “Teens live in a world partly Orwellian — fish need to understand all they can about water.

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: 23 books that shaped you in high school : NPR

    #1984 #2025 #America #Books #BooksReadInHighSchool #Education #HighSchool #History #Libraries #Library #NationalPublicRadio #NPR #Opinion #Reading #ToKillAMockingbird #UnitedStates

  5. I think #ToKillAMockingbird by #HarperLee probably affected me more deeply than any other book we ever read in school.

    Could read it once or a thousand times and still be finding its lessons played out for the rest of your life.

  6. The fate of To Kill a Mockingbird play is determined, Sandals Resorts win a major copyright decision, and Senators repropose AI transparency act.

    plagiarismtoday.com/2025/07/30

    #Copyright #AI #ToKillAMockingbird #CopyrightTermination

  7. #ScribesAndMakers 25 July 2025
    Create a multiple choices poll listing 3 books you personally consider “classics” and ask others to choose the ones they have read. Create a fourth option for None of the Above.

    #BramStoker #StephenKing #HarperLee #Carrie #Dracula #ToKillAMockingbird #reading #Lesen #bookstodon

  8. Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of To Kill a Mockingbird Sale: $14.99 to $0.99 by Mary McDonagh Murphy Rating: 4.3/5 (96 Reviews) #ToKillAMockingbird #HarperLee #Book #Recommendation #Literature #USA #BookSale #BookSky

    Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Cel...

  9. These lines are very relevant to the times we live in now, more than ever.

    #quote #tokillamockingbird #HarperLee

  10. Scott's review of To Kill a Mockingbird (To Kill a Mockingbird, #1) - BookWyrm

    This is a book dripping in US-southern aspects. But also paints a much more complex picture of this region. One that is not of a monolith of attitudes. It still has the bad behaviors the region is known for. But shows them to be bad behaviors that one can be guilty of anywhere. It also shows those that dont engage in said behaviors. And...

    bookwyrm.social/user/Scofistic

    #Books #Bookstodon #ToKillAMockingbird #SliceOfLife

  11. Author Harper Lee became a household name after “To Kill a Mockingbird” was published in 1960. But, as many writers have experienced, Lee’s rise to fame was impeded by rejections from literary journals and magazines. Lee kept those early attempts at fiction, and following her death in 2016, her executor discovered the writings in her apartment. Now, eight never-before-seen short stories will be published this year. Read more from @Smithsonianmag:

    flip.it/lK7PyR

    #Culture #Books #Reading #Bookstodon #HarperLee #ToKillAMockingbird

  12. “Shoot all the bluejays you want, but remember, it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” — To Kill a Mockingbird #HarperLee #ToKillAMockingbird #Literature

  13. Rereading To Kill a Mockingbird and it’s hitting differently this time. Reminds me of the childhood plays where we’d step into different characters’ shoes. Never realized how beautiful those moments were. #Nostalgia #ToKillAMockingbird #ChildhoodMemories

  14. Today in 1960, #ToKillAMockingbird by #HarperLee is published.

    I was forced to read it in High School, and I must admit it bored me to tears. Never had any inclination to read it as an adult. But I understand some people love it. ;-) #books #OnThisDay #history @bookstodon

  15. Picked up Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. "Probably overrated," I thought. "Harper Lee probably just got lucky. Can't possibly live up to its reputation.

    Wrong. It's stunning, masterful, timeless, and just as relevant today as ever.

    #books #harperlee #classics #publishing #tokillamockingbird

  16. Tonight in 1963 — Gregory Peck won an Academy Award for TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.

    This is how you do an Oscar speech: short and gracious.

    #ToKillAMockingbird #GregoryPeck

  17. Apr 5: Fav Movie/Performance #GregoryPeck
    #Stonegasmoviechallenge2024 #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬
    @stonegasman

    #ToKillAMockingbird (1962)
    Atticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, defends a Black man against an undeserved rape charge, and tries to educate his young children against prejudice.

  18. #TakingABreakFromFilming
    #ToKillAMockingbird (1962)
    Atticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, defends a Black man against an undeserved rape charge, and tries to educate his young children against prejudice.

    #GregoryPeck #MaryBadham on set.
    #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬