Class Consciousness Books
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Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.27 — 66,266 ratings — published 2023
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.09 — 272,329 ratings — published 1980
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as class-consciousness)
avg rating 3.69 — 207,023 ratings — published 1848
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,261 ratings — published 1981
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,616 ratings — published 1968
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,103 ratings — published 2011
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,484 ratings — published 2016
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 3 times as class-consciousness)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,634 ratings — published 2001
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.15 — 194,168 ratings — published 2016
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,195,539 ratings — published 2008
The Marx-Engels Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as class-consciousness)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,089 ratings — published 1971
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.30 — 11,142 ratings — published 1993
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.51 — 31,599 ratings — published 2003
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,692,004 ratings — published 1949
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,900 ratings — published 2010
Das Kapital (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as class-consciousness)
avg rating 3.91 — 12,665 ratings — published 1867
Reform or Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,280 ratings — published 1900
Star of the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,423 ratings — published 2002
The Highland Girls at War (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.30 — 630 ratings — published 2022
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.05 — 501,624 ratings — published 2011
The Women of Brewster Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.20 — 22,061 ratings — published 1982
Fiebre Tropical (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,793 ratings — published 2020
The Bewitching (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 3.81 — 45,927 ratings — published 2025
My Other Heart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 3.81 — 10,439 ratings — published 2025
This Side of Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 3.63 — 81,584 ratings — published 1920
plastic: A Poem (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.15 — 109 ratings — published
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.16 — 666,290 ratings — published 1996
Local Heavens (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,907 ratings — published 2025
La mala costumbre (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.49 — 55,010 ratings — published 2023
Lipstick (Object Lessons)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.21 — 34 ratings — published
Wind (Warriors: A Starless Clan #5)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,770 ratings — published 2024
Thunder (Warriors: A Starless Clan #4)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,889 ratings — published 2023
Shadow (Warriors: A Starless Clan #3)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,090 ratings — published 2023
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.39 — 10,759 ratings — published 2019
Uncanny Valley Girls: A Memoir-in-Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love – From the Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 3.71 — 488 ratings — published 2025
A Guardian and a Thief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 3.75 — 36,841 ratings — published 2025
The Fixers: The Bottom-Feeders, Crooked Lawyers, Gossipmongers, and Porn Stars Who Created the 45th President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 3.77 — 170 ratings — published 2020
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.46 — 6,983 ratings — published 1997
A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.43 — 56 ratings — published
When We Lost Our Heads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 3.93 — 17,446 ratings — published 2022
Up Against the Ivy Wall: A History of the Columbia Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published 1968
The Lamplighter’s Bookshop (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,362 ratings — published 2025
Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 3.03 — 636 ratings — published 2025
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,368 ratings — published 2025
Salt Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,919 ratings — published 2025
The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,148 ratings — published 2024
The Flowers of Good: The Science and the History of Marijuana Liberation (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.44 — 164 ratings — published
Touch Me, I'm Sick: A Memoir in Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 3.99 — 70 ratings — published
Restaurant Kid: A Memoir of Family and Belonging (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,535 ratings — published 2025
Moderation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.44 — 5,944 ratings — published 2025
“They imagine that their poverty is transitory, and that they only need a stroke of good luck to transform them into capitalists.
Education, they think, is the lucky number in the social lottery, and it will bring them the grand prize. They do not perceive that this ticket given them by the capitalist class is a fraud, that labor, whether manual or intellectual, has no other chance than to earn its daily pittance, that it has nothing to hope for but to be exploited, and that the more capitalism goes on developing, the more do the chances of an individual raising himself out of his class go on diminishing.”
― The Right to Be Lazy
Education, they think, is the lucky number in the social lottery, and it will bring them the grand prize. They do not perceive that this ticket given them by the capitalist class is a fraud, that labor, whether manual or intellectual, has no other chance than to earn its daily pittance, that it has nothing to hope for but to be exploited, and that the more capitalism goes on developing, the more do the chances of an individual raising himself out of his class go on diminishing.”
― The Right to Be Lazy
“In my opinion the basic cause for the relative failure of the two greatest revolutions in history resides not, to borrow again from Voline, in "historic inevitability," or simply in the subjective "errors" of revolutionary actors. The revolution bears within itself a serious contradiction (a contradiction which fortunately—and we will return to the subject —is not irremediable and is attenuated with time): it can only arise, it can only vanquish if it issues from the depths of the popular masses, from their irresistible spontaneous uprising; but although the class instinct drives the popular masses to break their chains, they are yet lacking in education and consciousness. And since, in their formidable but tumultuous and blind drive towards liberty, they run up against privileged, conscious, educated, organized, and tested social classes, they can only vanquish the resistance they meet if they succeed in obtaining in the heat of the struggle, the consciousness, the science, the organization, and the experience they lack. But the very fact of forging the weapons I have just listed summarily, and which alone can ensure their superiority over the enemy, bears an immense peril within it: that of killing the spontaneity that is the very spirit of the revolution; that of compromising freedom through organization; that of allowing the movement to be confiscated by an elite minority of more educated, more conscious, more experienced militants who, to begin with, offer themselves as guides in order, in the end, to impose themselves as chiefs and to subject the masses to new forms of the oppression of man by man.”
― For a Libertarian Communism
― For a Libertarian Communism

