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The Times' 20 best modern novels
1. 'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Harper Lee
Lee's masterpiece transcends fiction and speaks to its reader, expertly driving home points of racial equality, all the while introducing the literary (and later, the film) world's most archetypical crusading hero - Atticus Finch.
With more than 30,000,000 copies of apparent literary perfection in print and a Pulitzer Prize in 1961, Lee needn't have written another novel. And she didn't.
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