Paperback | Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions Harper Lee’s acclaimed and beloved novel is now available in a beautiful trade paperback edition Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit em, but remember its a sin to kill a mockingbird One of the best-loved classics of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It has won the Pulitzer Prize, been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, and been made into an enormously popular movie. Recently, librarians across the country gave the book the highest of honors by voting it the best novel of the century (Library Journal).