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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 — 196,618 ratings — published 2001
The Road to Wigan Pier (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.91 — 29,713 ratings — published 1937
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,018,712 ratings — published 1939
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,921,341 ratings — published 1937
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.30 — 202,023 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 — 512,579 ratings — published 2016
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,109 ratings — published 2011
North and South (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.15 — 188,190 ratings — published 1855
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,653 ratings — published 1958
Last Night at the Lobster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.60 — 13,906 ratings — published 2007
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.09 — 105,054 ratings — published 1933
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.78 — 157,157 ratings — published 1906
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.92 — 142,733 ratings — published 1971
A Kestrel for a Knave (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,459 ratings — published 1968
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,464 ratings — published 2018
La escritora muerta (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.75 — 69 ratings — published 2008
Empire Falls (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.95 — 127,405 ratings — published 2001
The Making of the English Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,753 ratings — published 1963
Young Mungo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.37 — 96,265 ratings — published 2022
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.02 — 51,388 ratings — published 2017
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,750,228 ratings — published 1945
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.86 — 115,811 ratings — published 2019
Stone Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.55 — 38,996 ratings — published 1993
Returning to Reims (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.24 — 9,594 ratings — published 2009
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.45 — 695,546 ratings — published 1952
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.04 — 10,630 ratings — published 1914
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.77 — 7,776 ratings — published 1959
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,399,026 ratings — published 2005
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,823 ratings — published 1992
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.02 — 47,979 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 — 272,193 ratings — published 1980
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,687,664 ratings — published 1948
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,029,048 ratings — published 1859
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.07 — 498,904 ratings — published 2021
Mercury (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.78 — 20,410 ratings — published 2024
Skint Estate: A Memoir of Poverty, Motherhood and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,649 ratings — published 2019
How Late It Was, How Late (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.60 — 4,826 ratings — published 1994
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.27 — 66,201 ratings — published 2023
À la ligne (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,114 ratings — published 2019
Listen to the Moon (Lively St. Lemeston, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.99 — 895 ratings — published 2016
Ocean State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.43 — 5,100 ratings — published 2022
The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.47 — 252,393 ratings — published 2012
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.66 — 401,008 ratings — published 2016
Qui a tué mon père (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.18 — 25,285 ratings — published 2018
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.50 — 141,243 ratings — published 1928
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.99 — 435,418 ratings — published 2019
The Iron Heel (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.78 — 13,017 ratings — published 1908
David Copperfield (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.05 — 264,776 ratings — published 1850
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.92 — 77,494 ratings — published 1975
Thief of Shadows (Maiden Lane, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.08 — 14,329 ratings — published 2012
“It has become conventional wisdom that America suffers from an unbridgeable gap between red and blue states, two separate political cultures that can agree on nothing and have become entrenched and opposing armies. … Organizing people not as voters, but as workers, is the start of the path toward breaking out of this artificial political divide, and bringing elected officials to heel on behalf of the working class.”
― The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor
― The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor
“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
