To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, unabridged recording performed by Sissy Spacek (HarperCollins, Caedmon Audio Imprint, $49.95 CD, $39.95 cassette)
Unavailable on audio for years, this unabridged reading by Sissy Spacek was approved by the legendary Alabama author of the 1960 novel.
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning book has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 40 languages. Most recently, the nation's librarians voted the tale of Boo Radley, Scout, Jem, and Atticus Finch as the best novel of the 20th century. In its national initiative to promote reading, The National Endowment for the Arts named To Kill a Mockingbird as one of its four Big Reads.