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To Kill a Mockingbird voted top 'Great American Read' in US poll

Written By Unknown on Wednesday, October 24, 2018 | 12:44 AM

Millions of American readers voted Harper Lee’s renowned story about racism as their favourite novel in six-month PBS poll

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s renowned coming-of-age story about racism and injustice in the American south, was voted the US’s best-loved novel by millions of readers as part of a national poll.

The Pulitzer prize-winning book, first published in 1960, topped the US public service broadcaster PBS’s Great American Read survey, the results of which were announced on Tuesday. More than 4 million votes were cast in the six-month long poll.

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