American Bar Association’s List of Top Law Novels

Here is the list of the American Bar Association’s list of the top law novels of all time. Do you agree?

1 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)

2 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)

3 Bleak House by Charles Dickens (1852)

4 The Trial by Franz Kafka (1925)

5 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (1862)

6 Billy Budd by Herman Melville (1924)

7 Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow (1987)

8 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorn (1850)

9 The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (1987)

10 An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925)

11 The Paper Chase by John Jay Osborn Jr. (1971)

12 Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street by Herman Melville (1853)

13 Native Son by Richard Write (1940)

14 The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942)

15 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859)

16 A Time to Kill by John Grisham (1989)

17 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (1951)

18 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)

19 QB VII by Leon Uris (1970)

20 The Firm by John Grisham (1991)

21 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1844)

22 The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)

23 Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver (1958)

24 The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (1943)

25 (tie) The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1940)

25 (tie) Old Filth by Jane Gardam (2004)