if to kill a mockingbird in my favourite book...

[MrsAtticus]

what else will I like?
I have a looong stay with the in-laws coming up!

[SanityClause]

My favourite book is The Handmaid's Tale.

It's not similar to To Kill A Mockingbird, but you might like it, nonetheless.

[Best1sWest]

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Betty Smith.
The grapes of Wrath

[MrsAtticus]

thank you!

[mum2jakie]

The Help is brilliant and along similar lines

[BettyBotter]

It's my favourite too.

And my other favourite is 'The God of Small Things' by Arundhati Roy. It's worth reading if you haven't already.

[nameuschangeus]

To Kill a Mockingbird is my all time favourite book too.

I also loved Rohintin Mistry's 'A Fine Balance' and pretty much anything by Sarah Waters and Andrea Levy.

[ScarlettSahara]

Love Mocking Bird too. Small Island by Andrea Levy is on a similar theme and set a little later-I think you would enjoy that too and when you have read that have you read any Thomas Hardy? I enjoyed Tess of the Durbervilles-prejudice and ignorance come into that .
From time to time I re-read Jane Eyre too. Good luck with the in-laws

[DisgruntledAardvark]

The Sweet Hereafter. Not similar plotwise, but some similar themes (small town shaken by an event, the outsiders within the town, etc), and it's beautifully written.

[Slipshodsibyl]

'Cold Sassy Tree' by Olive Ann Burns will appeal if you are a Mockingbird fan.

[KaFayOLay]

Catcher in the Rye.
Both that and Mocking Bird have been read numerous times, love them equally.

[Wolfiefan]

Roll of thunder hear my cry contains similar issues.

[phoolani]

You may like Carson McCullers. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter especially, tho I love them all. Set in the US South. Reminds me of Harper Lee.

[Slipshodsibyl]

You could also try 'Fried green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe' And perhaps 'The secret Life of Bees'

[highlandcoo]

YY to A Fine Balance, one of my favourite books.

I enjoyed The Help and The Secret Life of Bees but even better IMO is Sue Monk Kidd's new novel The Invention of Wings. Less fluffy, more hard-hitting and all the more interesting for being based on a true story of the first women from a slave-owning family to become passionate anti-slavery campaigners. An excellent book.

[MrsAtticus]

Wow, thanks for all of these, I'll be sneaking off for a 'nap' at the in-laws quite regularly with all this lot, I'll just have to see how many I can fit in the suitcase

[SconeRhymesWithGone]

Clover by Dori Sanders

[AnandaTimeIn]

Oh, I loved The Invention of Wings!

[SpawningSalmon]

The Poisonwood Bible is brilliant. Set in the Congo and has that hot, dry and dusty feel to the setting like TKAM. Also nice and long.

Another vote for A Fine Balance too. Brilliant.

[skinmysunshine]

I love TKAM. My favourite book is Eat of Eden. Not similar at all but both great books nonetheless.

[TheOtherSideOfSilence]

The Color Purple?

[andabookaboutsandwiches]

Love Story - not really similar, but in my mind it belongs along with Catcher in the Rye and TKAM.

[QueenoftheVerse]

The Colour Purple or The Power of One are both quite similar

[ElectricalBanana]

I like anything by Truman capote. He was a friend of harper lee. And he is Dill in TKAM.

TKAM is my favourite book too... Probably read it over 100 times. It's my go to book if I need my soul to be soothed.

[sunbathe]

I really like TKAM. I had the same sort of feeling from 'The Bean Trees' by Barbara Kingsolver.