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Working Class Books
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 15 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,014 ratings — published 2001
The Road to Wigan Pier (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.91 — 29,011 ratings — published 1937
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,873,279 ratings — published 1937
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,004,508 ratings — published 1939
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.30 — 195,446 ratings — published 2020
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.83 — 508,410 ratings — published 2016
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.08 — 10,929 ratings — published 2011
North and South (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.15 — 185,198 ratings — published 1855
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,555 ratings — published 1958
Last Night at the Lobster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.60 — 13,700 ratings — published 2007
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.09 — 102,927 ratings — published 1933
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.78 — 155,776 ratings — published 1906
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.92 — 140,883 ratings — published 1971
A Kestrel for a Knave (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.07 — 8,208 ratings — published 1968
La escritora muerta (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.75 — 69 ratings — published 2008
The Making of the English Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,728 ratings — published 1963
Young Mungo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.37 — 91,457 ratings — published 2022
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,957 ratings — published 2017
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,637,319 ratings — published 1945
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.02 — 35,241 ratings — published 2018
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.86 — 114,444 ratings — published 2019
Stone Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.55 — 37,612 ratings — published 1993
Empire Falls (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.95 — 126,617 ratings — published 2001
Returning to Reims (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.25 — 9,187 ratings — published 2009
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.44 — 658,746 ratings — published 1952
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,538 ratings — published 1914
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,378,294 ratings — published 2005
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.14 — 48,179 ratings — published 1992
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.02 — 47,127 ratings — published 2011
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.09 — 268,704 ratings — published 1980
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,565,216 ratings — published 1948
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.08 — 470,074 ratings — published 2021
Mercury (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.79 — 19,872 ratings — published 2024
Skint Estate: A Memoir of Poverty, Motherhood and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,613 ratings — published 2019
How Late It Was, How Late (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.60 — 4,788 ratings — published 1994
À la ligne (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,979 ratings — published 2019
Listen to the Moon (Lively St. Lemeston, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.99 — 882 ratings — published 2016
Ocean State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.43 — 5,020 ratings — published 2022
The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.47 — 243,948 ratings — published 2012
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.67 — 385,527 ratings — published 2016
Qui a tué mon père (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.17 — 23,786 ratings — published 2018
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.50 — 139,426 ratings — published 1928
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.00 — 420,424 ratings — published 2019
The Iron Heel (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.77 — 12,639 ratings — published 1908
David Copperfield (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.05 — 261,499 ratings — published 1850
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.92 — 76,617 ratings — published 1975
Thief of Shadows (Maiden Lane, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.08 — 14,186 ratings — published 2012
A Disaffection (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.81 — 767 ratings — published 1989
Lowering Clouds (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.88 — 17 ratings — published 2009
The Governess Affair (Brothers Sinister, #0.5)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.86 — 19,316 ratings — published 2012
“The soul of this country lives in the gap-toothed smiles of gas station cashiers, the matted fur of small-town dogs, the buzzing of neon signs in small dives where a layer of dust covers every surface, the shattered spirit of drive-through employees in nowhere towns, the weird smells and carpet stains in cheap motels where the windows look out at empty parking lots.”
― The Devil Takes You Home
― The Devil Takes You Home
“Embrace dysfunction" this one helps in the workplace!”
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