Best Sellers from Reader's Digest Condensed Books: To Kill a Mockingbird / The Shoes of the Fisherman / Seven Days in May / To Catch an Angel

by Harper Lee, Charles W. Bailey II, Morris L. West

To Kill a Mockingbird
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Seven Days in May
To Catch an Angel

Genres: Fiction

503 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1963

About the author

Nelle Harper Lee was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966). Her second and final novel, Go Set a Watchman, was an earlier draft of Mockingbird, set at a later date, that was published in July 2015 as a sequel.
The plot and characters of To Kill a Mockingbird are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family and neighbors in Monroeville, Alabama, as well as a childhood event that occurred near her hometown in 1936. The novel deals with racist attitudes, the irrationality of adult attitudes towards race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s, as depicted through the eyes of two children.
Lee received numerous accolades and honorary degrees, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007, which was awarded for her contribution to literature.

Reviews

[Alejandra]

I want to read this book, because seems to me important.

[Amogh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thus book I was good because it taught one central lesson throughout the book and that style, I feel was very unique to this book. Atticus defends a man that the rest of the community thinks is a criminal in the same way Boo Radley is a nice guy that is thoroughly misinterpreted. The continuing theme of, "Don't judge a book by its cover" shows up throughout this book and the centralization of that theme makes this a very uplifting book to read.

[Misha · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 ⭐

•To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - 4 ⭐
•The Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris L. West - 3 ⭐
•Seven Days in May by Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II - 3 ⭐
•To Catch an Angel by Robert Russell - 4 ⭐

[Stephanie Alvarez · Rating 3 out of 5]

this book was alright, there were a lot of points where I just wanted to give up reading it though, because a lot of it is pretty boring. so I guess I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

[Reader · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was nice to reread To Kill a Mockingbird again, I read it once in highschool. However, once I got to The Shoes of a Fisherman I just couldn't understand most of it. I tried to read it like 3 times but it's hard for me to continue reading something that I don't understand. 😕 I decided not to finish the book. I will be donating it for someone else to enjoy.