Working Class


Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
The Road to Wigan Pier
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
Shuggie Bain
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
North and South
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Last Night at the Lobster
Down and Out in Paris and London
The Jungle
Post Office
A Kestrel for a Knave
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray PollockKnockemstiff by Donald Ray PollockNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyThe Road by Cormac McCarthyWinter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell
Regional Grit Lit
136 books — 94 voters
The Backup Boyfriend by River JaymesThe Shearing Gun by Renae KayeRelief Valve by J.L. MerrowControl by Mary CalmesThe Blinding Light by Renae Kaye
M/M Blue Collar Books 2014
38 books — 6 voters

Dark Skies by David HaldaneBlow Down by J.L. MerrowDavid, Renewed by Diana CoplandDon't Twunk with My Heart by Renae KayeWhen the Dust Settles by Mary Calmes
M/M Blue Collar Books 2016
20 books — 11 voters
Triangle by David von DrehleAshes of Roses by Mary Jane AuchUprising by Margaret Peterson HaddixHear My Sorrow by Deborah HopkinsonA Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
58 books — 38 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonThe Man That I Would Become by Victor L. BrettingAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Blue Collar Books
193 books — 67 voters
Rattlesnake by Kim FieldingCrossroads by Riley HartHeat Trap by J.L. MerrowKnight of Ocean Avenue by Tara LainIn the Middle of Somewhere by Roan Parrish
M/M Blue Collar Books 2015
28 books — 8 voters

“ Embrace dysfunction" this one helps in the workplace! ...more ”
― Rick Hein

Jeanette Winterson
“ I didn't want to be in the teeming mass of the working class.... I didn't want to live and die in the same place with only a week at the seaside in between. I dreamed of escape -- but what is terrible about industrialisation is that it makes escape necessary. In a system that generates masses, individualism is the only way out. But then what happens to community -- to society? ...more ”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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