Now that final exams are over what are you going to do with all that free time? How about cozying up with a good book! Hey, what else do you expect a librarian to suggest!
ABA Greatest Law Novels Ever
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Crime and Punishment
- Bleak House
- Kafka’s The Trial
- Les Miserables
- Billy Budd
- Presumed Innocent
- The Scarlet Letter
- The Bonfire of the Vanities
- An American Tragedy
- The Paper Chase
- Bartleby the Scrivener
- Native Son
- The Stranger
- A Tale of Two Cities
- A Time to Kill
- The Caine Mutiny
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- QB VII
- The Firm
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- The Handmaid’s Tale
- Anatomy of a Murder
- The Fountainhead
- Tie: Old Filth & The Ox-Bow Incident
You can read more about the ABA’s choices and why they picked the books they did in their gallery: ABA Journal, 25 Greatest Law Novels Ever.
Not feeling like doing any more reading? Check out the ABA Journal’s 25 Greatest Legal Movies and 25 Greatest Legal TV Shows.
Want to avoid thinking about anything legal over break? Check out some of these other resources for great books and movies:
Non-Legal Book Lists
- Goodreads 2019 Choice Awards, Best Fiction
- Library Journal’s Best Books 2019
- NPR’s Favorite Books of 2019
- Arianna Reboline & Tomi Obaro, These Are The Best Books Of 2019, BuzzFeed News (Dec. 13, 2019, 1:09 PM)
- Time’s The 100 Must-Read Books of 2019
- Katy Waldman, The Best Books of 2019, The New Yorker (Dec. 2, 2019)