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Where We Stand: Class Matters (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 3,014 ratings — published 2000
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 1,352,946 ratings — published 2017
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 167,951 ratings — published 2020
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 118,346 ratings — published 2016
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 25,738 ratings — published 2016
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.59 — 36,718 ratings — published 1981
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as classism)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,138,535 ratings — published 1925
Babel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 541,888 ratings — published 2022
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 902,234 ratings — published 2022
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as classism)
avg rating 4.35 — 66,160 ratings — published 2020
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 41,011 ratings — published 1968
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as classism)
avg rating 4.27 — 67,145 ratings — published 2023
The Outsiders (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,688,019 ratings — published 1967
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
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avg rating 4.37 — 3,791,463 ratings — published 2018
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 2,893 ratings — published 2018
Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)
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avg rating 3.91 — 562,573 ratings — published 2013
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 514,900 ratings — published 2016
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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avg rating 3.66 — 196,830 ratings — published 2001
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,949,311 ratings — published 1937
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.36 — 10,272,060 ratings — published 2008
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 7,118,531 ratings — published 1960
The God of the Woods (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,034,835 ratings — published 2024
Educated (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,971,786 ratings — published 2018
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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avg rating 4.13 — 3,871,331 ratings — published 2010
Normal People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 1,996,829 ratings — published 2018
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 116,423 ratings — published 2019
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 209,552 ratings — published 1848
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 19,069 ratings — published 1991
Queerly Classed: Gay Men & Lesbians Write About Class (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 43 ratings — published 1997
Great Expectations (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 894,697 ratings — published 1861
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 250,792 ratings — published 1984
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as classism)
avg rating 3.77 — 206,715 ratings — published 2008
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 5,005,789 ratings — published 1813
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 31,968 ratings — published 2003
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)
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avg rating 4.49 — 1,305,373 ratings — published 2025
Blood Over Bright Haven (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 181,150 ratings — published 2023
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 11,215 ratings — published 2011
The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)
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avg rating 4.26 — 3,968,351 ratings — published 2022
The House of Eve (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 146,313 ratings — published 2023
Swim Team (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 11,702 ratings — published 2022
The Paris Apartment (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.64 — 760,828 ratings — published 2022
The Promise (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 51,864 ratings — published 2021
The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as classism)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,205 ratings — published 2018
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as classism)
avg rating 4.15 — 549,337 ratings — published 2018
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as classism)
avg rating 3.77 — 589,152 ratings — published 2019
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 15,815 ratings — published 1951
The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)
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avg rating 3.92 — 47,173 ratings — published 2020
Just Mercy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.62 — 272,045 ratings — published 2014
China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as classism)
avg rating 3.84 — 233,178 ratings — published 2015
The Elite (The Selection, #2)
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avg rating 3.94 — 896,778 ratings — published 2013
“To say that one goes on holiday is to speak the language of the working class, for whom the time off appears merry and playful; but to say one goes on vacation is to speak the language of the ruling class. Vacation comes from the same root as vacant and reflects what the owner sees when he looks around the floor—a vacancy where John 'should' 'be'. (I suspect that the owner probably thinks some negative thoughts about the Labor Unions and the 'damned Liberal' Government that force him to pay John even when John 'is vacant.')
I leave it as a puzzle for the reader: Do the Irish and English speak Working Class in this case because they have had several socialist governments, or have the had several socialist governments because they learned to speak the language of the Working Class? And: has the U.S., alone among industrial nations, never had a socialist government because it speaks the Ruling Class language, or does it speak the Ruling Class language because it has never had a socialist government?”
― Rebels & Devils; A Tribute to Christopher S. Hyatt
I leave it as a puzzle for the reader: Do the Irish and English speak Working Class in this case because they have had several socialist governments, or have the had several socialist governments because they learned to speak the language of the Working Class? And: has the U.S., alone among industrial nations, never had a socialist government because it speaks the Ruling Class language, or does it speak the Ruling Class language because it has never had a socialist government?”
― Rebels & Devils; A Tribute to Christopher S. Hyatt
“Just because drivers and cooks in Delhi are reading Murder Weekly, it doesn't mean that they are all about to slit their masters' necks. Of course they’d like to. Of course, a billion servants are secretly fantasizing about strangling their bosses — and that’s why the government of India publishes this magazine and sells it on the streets for just four and a half rupees so that even the poor can buy it. you see, the murdered in the magazine is so mentally disturbed and sexually deranged that not one reader would want to be like him — and in the end he always gets caught by some honest, hardworking police officer (ha!), or goes mad and hangs himself by a bedsheet after writing a sentimental letter to his mother or primary school teacher, or is chased, beaten, buggered, and garroted by the brother of the woman he has done in. So if your driver is busy flicking through the pages of Murder Weekly, relax. No danger to you. Quite the contrary.
It’s when your driver starts to read about Gandhi and the Buddha that it’s time to wet your pants.”
― The White Tiger
It’s when your driver starts to read about Gandhi and the Buddha that it’s time to wet your pants.”
― The White Tiger
