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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 3.65 — 195,623 ratings — published 2001
The Road to Wigan Pier (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,630 ratings — published 1937
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,846,029 ratings — published 1937
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.03 — 996,970 ratings — published 1939
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.30 — 192,238 ratings — published 2020
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.84 — 505,572 ratings — published 2016
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.08 — 10,842 ratings — published 2011
North and South (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.15 — 183,774 ratings — published 1855
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,492 ratings — published 1958
Last Night at the Lobster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.60 — 13,575 ratings — published 2007
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.09 — 101,646 ratings — published 1933
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.78 — 154,940 ratings — published 1906
A Kestrel for a Knave (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.07 — 8,096 ratings — published 1968
La escritora muerta (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.75 — 69 ratings — published 2008
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.93 — 139,777 ratings — published 1971
The Making of the English Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,715 ratings — published 1963
Young Mungo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.37 — 88,571 ratings — published 2022
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,707 ratings — published 2017
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.02 — 34,464 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 — 113,618 ratings — published 2019
Stone Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.54 — 36,895 ratings — published 1993
Empire Falls (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.95 — 126,221 ratings — published 2001
Returning to Reims (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.25 — 8,930 ratings — published 2009
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.44 — 643,389 ratings — published 1952
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.04 — 10,464 ratings — published 1914
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,366,742 ratings — published 2005
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.14 — 47,863 ratings — published 1992
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.09 — 266,820 ratings — published 1980
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.09 — 448,460 ratings — published 2021
Mercury (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.79 — 19,645 ratings — published 2024
Skint Estate: A Memoir of Poverty, Motherhood and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,591 ratings — published 2019
How Late It Was, How Late (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.60 — 4,757 ratings — published 1994
À la ligne (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,894 ratings — published 2019
Listen to the Moon (Lively St. Lemeston, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.99 — 879 ratings — published 2016
Ocean State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.43 — 4,981 ratings — published 2022
The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.46 — 239,491 ratings — published 2012
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.67 — 376,532 ratings — published 2016
Qui a tué mon père (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.17 — 22,848 ratings — published 2018
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.50 — 138,232 ratings — published 1928
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.01 — 409,591 ratings — published 2019
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,574,816 ratings — published 1945
The Iron Heel (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.78 — 12,463 ratings — published 1908
David Copperfield (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.04 — 259,278 ratings — published 1850
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.92 — 76,118 ratings — published 1975
Thief of Shadows (Maiden Lane, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.08 — 14,089 ratings — published 2012
A Disaffection (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.81 — 760 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 — 19,236 ratings — published 2012
Sons and Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.64 — 55,870 ratings — published 1913
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,870,128 ratings — published 2018
“Taxi Driver”
There’s a strange kind of liberation in being just a taxi driver— the freedom tucked inside that word: just.
Because you’re just a driver, no one truly sees you. Yet you see it all— the absurdities, the shallows, the beauty, sorrow, joy, heartbreak—passengers unknowingly exposed.
They grant you a diluted respect, sometimes half-fake, sometimes not at all— because you’re just a taxi driver.
But they leave you be. No one's scheming to steal your seat. They want you in that seat. They ride with you because, for now, it’s a seat they don’t desire.
Still, like all fleeting liberations, this too carries disappointment— a bittersweet sting.
You realize the only reason they leave you alone is because you've escaped into a seat they never wanted in the first place. And that hurts.”
― سرطان في كل مكان [Cancer Everywhere]
There’s a strange kind of liberation in being just a taxi driver— the freedom tucked inside that word: just.
Because you’re just a driver, no one truly sees you. Yet you see it all— the absurdities, the shallows, the beauty, sorrow, joy, heartbreak—passengers unknowingly exposed.
They grant you a diluted respect, sometimes half-fake, sometimes not at all— because you’re just a taxi driver.
But they leave you be. No one's scheming to steal your seat. They want you in that seat. They ride with you because, for now, it’s a seat they don’t desire.
Still, like all fleeting liberations, this too carries disappointment— a bittersweet sting.
You realize the only reason they leave you alone is because you've escaped into a seat they never wanted in the first place. And that hurts.”
― سرطان في كل مكان [Cancer Everywhere]
“The audience was composed of the lower stratum of white working people: hard-faced, lantern-jawed, dull-eyed adult children, seeking like all humanity for something permanent in the eternal flux of life. The young girls in their cheap finery with circus makeup on their faces; the young men, aged before their time by child labor and a violent environment; the middle-aged folk with their shiny, shabby garb and beaten countenances; all ready and eager to be organized for any purpose except improvement of their intellects and standard of living.”
― Black No More
― Black No More
