15 Years of Summer Reading
What have our big
picks been for the best season in books? On our anniversary year, we look back
at great reads from the past decade and a half.
1 of 15
To Kill a Mockingbird
By Harper Lee
384 pages;
Grand Central Publishing
2000
(picked by Oprah!)
Bookshelf: Oprah reveals some of her favorites in her
collection at home
Harpers Lee's masterpiece—my favorite novel of all
time—traces one lawyer’s effort to defend a wrongly accused black man
without sacrificing the innocence of his children.
Favorite
quote: "There is one way in this country in which all men
are created equal- there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal
of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man
the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a
court."
— Oprah
Published 06/10/2015
