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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 15 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,935 ratings — published 2001
The Road to Wigan Pier (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.91 — 30,224 ratings — published 1937
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,030,604 ratings — published 1939
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,960,341 ratings — published 1937
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.30 — 207,873 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 — 515,916 ratings — published 2016
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,249 ratings — published 2011
North and South (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.15 — 190,177 ratings — published 1855
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,712 ratings — published 1958
Last Night at the Lobster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.60 — 14,058 ratings — published 2007
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.09 — 106,869 ratings — published 1933
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.79 — 158,307 ratings — published 1906
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.92 — 144,221 ratings — published 1971
A Kestrel for a Knave (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,618 ratings — published 1968
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,230 ratings — published 2018
La escritora muerta (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.84 — 74 ratings — published 2008
Empire Falls (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.95 — 128,185 ratings — published 2001
The Making of the English Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,771 ratings — published 1963
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.27 — 67,528 ratings — published 2023
À la ligne (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,210 ratings — published 2019
Listen to the Moon (Lively St. Lemeston, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.98 — 905 ratings — published 2016
Young Mungo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.37 — 100,381 ratings — published 2022
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.02 — 51,673 ratings — published 2017
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,827,091 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 — 116,693 ratings — published 2019
Stone Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.56 — 39,943 ratings — published 1993
Returning to Reims (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.24 — 9,959 ratings — published 2009
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.46 — 738,542 ratings — published 1952
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,770 ratings — published 1914
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.77 — 7,971 ratings — published 1959
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,414,257 ratings — published 2005
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,288 ratings — published 1992
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.02 — 48,636 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 — 274,686 ratings — published 1980
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,785,241 ratings — published 1949
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,035,978 ratings — published 1859
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.07 — 521,908 ratings — published 2021
Mercury (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.78 — 20,815 ratings — published 2024
Skint Estate: A Memoir of Poverty, Motherhood and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,665 ratings — published 2019
Mo Said She Was Quirky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.15 — 254 ratings — published 2012
How Late It Was, How Late (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.60 — 4,862 ratings — published 1994
Ocean State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.43 — 5,156 ratings — published 2022
The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.47 — 260,363 ratings — published 2012
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.66 — 412,432 ratings — published 2016
Qui a tué mon père (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.18 — 26,272 ratings — published 2018
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.50 — 142,589 ratings — published 1928
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.99 — 446,187 ratings — published 2019
The Iron Heel (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.78 — 13,253 ratings — published 1908
David Copperfield (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.05 — 266,959 ratings — published 1850
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.91 — 78,181 ratings — published 1975
“The fighting that ensued recalls a quote attributed to 19th-century capitalist Jay Gould: ‘I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.”
― Black Coal and Red Bandanas: An Illustrated History of the West Virginia Mine Wars
― Black Coal and Red Bandanas: An Illustrated History of the West Virginia Mine Wars
“Being paid a wage as an employee is essentially like transferring your boss’s money to your landlord.”
― The Price of Being Human
― The Price of Being Human
