Book · 1970 · Fiction
To Kill a Mockingbird
#52 of 16,684 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts
- mentions
- 52
- people
- 27
- podcasts
- 15
- episodes
- 39
- recommendations
- 2
To Kill a Mockingbird remains a beautiful novel about the coming of age of these vivid characters and it remains a novel about empathy and tolerance and understanding in a time of of social and political crisis.
What they say about it
- Discusses the prequel or sequel“that sequel had not been written”6
- Discusses school book bans“Why are we banning To Kill a Mockingbird?”5
- Brought to Broadway4
- Mentioned as a classic read“It's still a classic that everyone reads”2
- Read in middle or junior high school“pretty universally read in America signed in in junior high school or middle school”2
The best things said about it
Tina what about you Lauren mentioned this earlier but one of the first audiobooks I loved and the one that I give to people who are not certain that they will like audio books is spasic reading To Kill a Mocking Bird.
I read Mockingbird like most people read Mockingbird when I was a kid. And back then it was just an adventure story with kids roughly my age and I thought it was so cool.
I mean the excitement is I've never seen sort of excitement like this of a novel this you know as you know tequilla Mockingbird was haror Le's only book and it's still a classic that everyone reads it's sold more than 40 million copies.
If To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the great novels of all time, something half as good is still really good.
Ryan Holiday The Daily Stoic · Feb 2024 A number of reasons my inspiration for being lawyer is uh we read To Kill a Mockingbird no I wouldn't be Atticus Finch right.
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How it comes up
27 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic American novel by Harper Lee that explores themes of racial injustice and moral growth in the American South. Gretchen Whitmer named it her all-time favorite book on The Ezra Klein Show, while Tina Jordan praised Sissy Spacek's narration of the audiobook on The Book Review as a great introduction for reluctant listeners. The book also sparked various discussions across other podcasts. Mark Geragos compared a hostile trial atmosphere to the novel's depiction of the American South on The Megyn Kelly Show, and David Baldacci shared on How I Write how his perception of the story shifted from an adventure tale in his youth to a deeper work over time. Jenna Bush Hager and Megyn Kelly discussed the book's recent removal from certain school curricula on The Megyn Kelly Show and Las Culturistas, while Josh Clark noted on Stuff You Should Know how the novel could serve as a shared literary reference point.
Every mention
Gretchen Whitmer burn book by Caris swisser is a great book and I mean classic To Kill a Mocking Bird my all-time favorite 1
Recommended
“burn book by Caris swisser is a great book and I mean classic To Kill a Mocking Bird my all-time favorite”
Tina Jordan Tina what about you Lauren mentioned this earlier but one of the first audiobooks I loved and the one that… 1
Recommended
“Tina what about you Lauren mentioned this earlier but one of the first audiobooks I loved and the one that I give to people who are not certain that they will like audio books is spasic reading To Kill a Mocking Bird”
Alexandra Alter I mean the excitement is I've never seen sort of excitement like this of a novel this you know as you know… 8
Discussed
“I was also thinking of the Harper Lee collection of stories which to me that was interesting just because as everyone knows late in her career a sort of prequel which was kind of a sequel to Tequilla Mockingbird came out and there was a lot debate at the time over what her intentions were with that book.”
Discussed
“and it's apparently you know the book that she wrote before To Kill a Mocking Bird has many of the same character Scout and attacus”
Discussed
“I mean the excitement is I've never seen sort of excitement like this of a novel this you know as you know tequilla Mockingbird was haror Le's only book and it's still a classic that everyone reads it's sold more than 40 million copies”
Discussed
“I've been Co closely covering all the various legal scandals surrounding the Broadway production of tequilla Mockingbird based on the Harper Lea Classic”
Discussed
“this time it's a lawsuit that was filed in Alabama federal court by the estate of Harper Lee and they are bringing a suit against Scott Ruden and the producers of a forthcoming Broadway adaptation of tequilla Mockingbird”
Discussed
“he said this is absolutely true to the spirit of the book and he thinks that this is still an evolving work it's set to open later this year he thinks that it will ultimately please fans of tequilla Mockingbird”
Discussed
“one that caught my eye because of course this is something I was obsessed with for the better part of a year recently related to To Kill a Mocking Bird in Harper Lisa State”
Discussed
“The other exciting theatrical news was uh To Kill a Mocking Bird is coming to Broadway finally after almost 60 years”
Gilbert Cruz and so there is something about when Merl stre reads or when reads tequilla Mockingbird which I know is one… 6
Discussed
“and so there is something about when Merl stre reads or when reads tequilla Mockingbird which I know is one we both love we love we both love that”
Discussed
“because though as you say to Kill a Mocking Bird is is pretty universally read in America signed in in junior high school or middle school”
Discussed
“ghost a Watchman was actually written before To Kill a Mocking Bird but it was published 50 years later or so it it it was published in the summer of 2015”
Discussed
“so this book goett a Watchman was written before To Kill a Mocking Bird and is sort of considered now I think to be an an early rejected draft of that novel”
Discussed
“To Kill a Mockingbird remains a beautiful novel about the coming of age of these Vivid characters and it remains a novel about empathy and tolerance and understanding in a time of of social and political crisis”
Discussed
“is To Kill a Mocking Bird an international success as much as it is an American success”
Pamela Paul I mean this is Harper Lee as she made clear in tequilla Mockingbird not a great time for an African-America… 3
Discussed
“I mean this is Harper Lee as she made clear in tequilla Mockingbird not a great time for an African-American to be accused of of murder and not likely that someone would get off”
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“I mean it's almost like a grotesque inversion of every aspect of the trial at the heart of tequila Mockingbird you have instead of an innocent black man you have a guilty black man”
Discussed
“and the other book that I read and finished last night was To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee”
Joseph Crispino and the segregation is South the Atticus Finch of of tequila Mockingbird yes absolutely is too good to be true 2
Discussed
“and that's that's to Killa Mockingbird”
Discussed
“and the segregation is South the Atticus Finch of of tequila Mockingbird yes absolutely is too good to be true”
Josh Clark It you could both have agreed upon a book. You have to kill a mockingbird. I've got to kill a mockingbird. 2
Discussed
“It you could both have agreed upon a book. You have to kill a mockingbird. I've got to kill a mockingbird.”
Discussed
“To Kill a Mockingbird pages.”
Megyn Kelly To kill a mockingb bird has been removed, I think from two schools curriculum. Not from the libraries. 2
Discussed
“To kill a mockingb bird has been removed, I think from two schools curriculum. Not from the libraries.”
Discussed
“they even rip on To Kill a Mockingbird where a white attorney played by uh Gregory Peck defends a black man falsely accused of rape he loses the case”
Ryan Holiday And she just couldn't get out of her own head because in her mind it was never going to be uh to kill a moc… 2
Discussed
“And she just couldn't get out of her own head because in her mind it was never going to be uh to kill a mockingbird.”
Discussed
“She if if To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the great novels of all time, something half as good is still really good.”
Tim Pool Kurt Crowley says to Kill a Mocking Bird has polluted some of the thought process the time setting was in t… 2
Critiqued
“Kurt Crowley says to Kill a Mocking Bird has polluted some of the thought process the time setting was in the 1930s however people read it and digest it still think we are in that time frame”
Discussed
“what were the books we were reading when we were in grade school Like To Kill a Mockingbird”
Andrew Klavan And and this is deeply offensive because after years of reading books like To Kill a Mockingbird where we l… 1
Discussed
“And and this is deeply offensive because after years of reading books like To Kill a Mockingbird where we learn that bigotry uh was wrong, we're suddenly being told, "No, no, no, that was just the wrong bigotry."”
Bill Burr So my parents went out I took him to go see the To Kill a Mockingbird my buddy actually got the tickets 1
Discussed
“So my parents went out I took him to go see the To Kill a Mockingbird my buddy actually got the tickets”
Casey Cep I think like a lot of the world I was so shocked to learn that Harper Lee would be publishing a new book an… 1
Discussed
“I think like a lot of the world I was so shocked to learn that Harper Lee would be publishing a new book and that was goetta Watchman the book book that was published as her second novel”
Clay Travis my argument is I'd like to go back to kill Mockingbird which now is getting banned in the state of Mississippi 1
Discussed
“my argument is I'd like to go back to kill Mockingbird which now is getting banned in the state of Mississippi”
Dana Gioia Harper Lee only published one book you know while she was alive To Kill a Mocking Bird 1
Discussed
“Harper Lee only published one book you know while she was alive To Kill a Mocking Bird”
David Baldacci I read I read Mockingbird like most people read Mockingbird when I was a kid. And back then it was just an… 1
Discussed
“I read I read Mockingbird like most people read Mockingbird when I was a kid. And back then it was just an adventure story with kids roughly my age and I thought it was so cool.”
Jane Coastin And I think that in a couple of states like Democrats have led the charge in some areas of California on at… 1
Discussed
“And I think that in a couple of states like Democrats have led the charge in some areas of California on attempting to remove books like To Kill a Mockingbird and other ones like you can't”
Jean Hanff Korelitz because let's face it I keep thinking about to Kill a Mocking Bird and how desperately we all wished that s… 1
Discussed
“because let's face it I keep thinking about to Kill a Mocking Bird and how desperately we all wished that sequel had not been written”
Jeff Daniels i miss even going back to mockingbird you know on broadway i miss what atticus finch is going to be able to… 1
Discussed
“i miss even going back to mockingbird you know on broadway i miss what atticus finch is going to be able to do to this post-george floyd crowd”
Jenna Bush Hager Why are we banning to kill a mockingb bird? 1
Discussed
“Why are we banning to kill a mockingb bird?”
Marianne Williamson or we even talking about to Kill a Mocking Bird so I I I don't think we have to separate this 1
Discussed
“or we even talking about to Kill a Mocking Bird so I I I don't think we have to separate this”
Mark Geragos You know, I grew up reading uh Tequilla Mockingbird and it had that kind of a feel to it. Uh at least from… 1
Discussed
“You know, I grew up reading uh Tequilla Mockingbird and it had that kind of a feel to it. Uh at least from my standpoint.”
Matt Rogers you wrote To Kill a Mockingbird but you know she would be higher on this list if she just just just I wish… 1
Discussed
“you wrote To Kill a Mockingbird but you know she would be higher on this list if she just just just I wish you came out with one more book”
Ramona Bessinger oh the literature is actually printed and written in america but there's no historical basis for any the li… 1
Discussed
“oh the literature is actually printed and written in america but there's no historical basis for any the literature except for uh to kill a mockingbird and the crucible”
Sadiq Khan a number of reasons my inspiration for being lawyer is uh we read To Kill a Mockingbird no I wouldn't be At… 1
Discussed
“a number of reasons my inspiration for being lawyer is uh we read To Kill a Mockingbird no I wouldn't be Atticus Finch right”
Tom Hanks And the idea that East Berlin—you cannot read—you cannot read, um, To Kill a Mockingbird or, you know, any—… 1
Discussed
“And the idea that East Berlin—you cannot read—you cannot read, um, To Kill a Mockingbird or, you know, any—any or Doctor Zhivago for crying out loud.”
Victor Davis Hanson I mean, nobody on the right said, Let's ban To Kill a Mockingbird. There's a lot of school districts that b… 1
Discussed
“I mean, nobody on the right said, Let's ban To Kill a Mockingbird. There's a lot of school districts that banned that.”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker6
Discussed
“Why are we banning To Kill a Mockingbird?”
Discussed
“but under his administration they banned The Adventures of Huck Finn To Kill a Mockingbird and ofm Men”
Discussed
“under his administration they banned The Adventures of Huck Finn To Kill a Mockingbird and ofm Men wait... under the California has banned the the aventures of Huckleberry Finn to kill a Mony bird and of M man for being racist”
Discussed
“I think the issue is uh there's a difference between not in the curriculum and banning the book outright”
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“uh to kill a walking bird oh you would how noble”
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“it's in the top selling spot to Kill a Mocking Bird is also gotten a huge boost”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (31: passing, ad reads, own books)
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“and um to to kill a mockingb bird because it's about like this friendship in a small town but it's also this kind of thriller.”
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“In In To Kill a Mockingbird, Walter Cunningham from Old Sarum pays Atticus Finch in a thousand live eels at one point. Is that for real? No.”
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“When Hollywood dramatizes this, it's um you know, it's like Henry Fonda and the Oxbow incident or maybe it's Gregory Pek and Tequila Mockingbird.”
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“Tilla Mockingbird by Harper Lee.”
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“Did he ever read to kill a mockingbird?”
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“Think of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird.”
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“Which I thought for sure Sheriff McCulla was going to do, but apparently McCulla was intent on kind of going by the book! He followed the Hectate school of sheriffing! I don't even know what that from—uh, from To Kill a Mockingbird!”
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“you know it's connected to te Killa Mockingbird there's overlapping characters and themes”
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“and that was essentially how we got to Kill Mockingbird”
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“It's like that Atticus Finch quote where you get to put on someone else's shoes and walk a while.”
Passing
“I just read this book called Furious Hours, which is sort of a true crime book, but it's also about uh Harper Lee who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird.”
Passing
“You can't just do it; if you call any place, they say you can do it, or you can't—everybody can't call and put up a peach tree for somebody who died like Boo Radley or whoever, because then it would just be all trees.”
Passing
“- I said, hold my beer. Yeah, I am. I am definitely in my prime.”
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“All of them, the rock into—Kill a Mockingbird! Like the rock!”
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“I mean what were the books we were reading when we were in grade school Like To Kill a Mockingbird”
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“te Kill Mockingbird by Harper Lee”
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Passing
“All of them because if you're going to write to kill a mockingbird or Harry Potter a lot of people are gonna read it”
Passing
“Pamela was shocked recently to learn that I had never read to Kill a Mocking Bird and I still have not read to moing bird”
Passing
“and I read the unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip Williams and to kill Mocking Bird by Harper leee”
Passing
“I'm not going to go to the Broadway production”
Passing
“It's like if anyone who's ever seen the movie limitless and you pop that pill here mmhmm yeah there's something to it some to it”
Passing
“I guess it's too early to get tickets to the upcoming Broadway production of tequilla Mocking Bird which is opening I think later later this year from eron sorin”
Passing
“he got that Boo Radley and I'm a little bit but he's you know he's adventurous and he's helping out on the on the Thursday episode”
Passing
“I'm guessing you didn't get a good grade for your seventh grade book report on To Kill a Mockingbird referencing the classic novel that features the trial of a black man falsely accused of rape in the 1930s Alabama”
Passing
“I think probably the biggest bombshell was the second novel by Harper Lee published more than 50 years after To Kill a Mockingbird”
Passing
“Scout came from tequilla mocking I don't believe it did all right”
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“ghost had a Watchman the book that eventually became To Kill a Mockingbird”
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“just because there's very little known about this book apart from the fact that it takes place 20 years after to Kill Mockingbird”
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“of course there's Harper Lee's next book which is a continuation of to Killa Mockingbird it takes place 20 years later”