Billy Budd By Herman Melville The last work by one of America’s greatest novelists, a painful contemplation about the limits of the law, a subject of life-long interest to Melville. To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee The classic tale of justice and injustice in a small Southern town. The Just and the Unjust By James Gould Cozzens The story of a small-town lawyer told by one of the most revered authors of the middle of the 20th-century, whose work no longer receives the attention it deserves. Phineas Finn By Anthony Trollope Trollope at his chatty best; the tale of a young Irish barrister who becomes a member of Parliament. An irresistible bildungsroman. A Married Man By Piers Paul Read A terrific incisive and suspenseful novel about a London barrister entering middle-age and a shattering mid-life crisis.