While some of To Kill a Mockingbird is very well-written, other parts seem like cheap melodrama or outright propaganda.
The whole inverted myth about blacks generally being the noble victims of crime rather than its perpetrators is fed to us non-stop by the media today. It's a false meme that we can thank TKAM for.
On the other hand, I've always loved the story of Boo Radley. I wish the novel had focused more on the Radleys and less on Atticus and his Noble Black Victim client, but then we'd have a Faulkner novel rather than a Harper Lee novel.
Read Capote’s “A Christmas Memory” and some of TKAM that has to do with the town, the kids, the ordinary people. Not the phoney crusading lawyer stuff...I am convinced that what is good about TKAM us Capote. Plus, isn’t it odd that she could only write one book?