[tps_header]After a 55 year wait, Harper Lee’s new novel comes out next week. Here are 10 other must-reads by Alabamians:[/tps_header]

[tps_title]To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee[/tps_title]Set in the fictional town of Macomb, Alabama, no list can exclude Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coming-of-age tale of a South stained by prejudice and those who fought tirelessly to make it better. The novel takes the reader back to a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, Scout Finch, as her father Atticus—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.