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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 — 195,118 ratings — published 2001
The Road to Wigan Pier (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,071 ratings — published 1937
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,799,838 ratings — published 1937
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.03 — 985,573 ratings — published 1939
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.30 — 187,796 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 — 498,848 ratings — published 2016
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.08 — 10,725 ratings — published 2011
North and South (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.15 — 182,002 ratings — published 1855
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,434 ratings — published 1958
Last Night at the Lobster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.59 — 13,278 ratings — published 2007
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.09 — 99,870 ratings — published 1933
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.78 — 153,791 ratings — published 1906
A Kestrel for a Knave (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.07 — 7,940 ratings — published 1968
La escritora muerta (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.76 — 66 ratings — published 2008
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.93 — 138,023 ratings — published 1971
The Making of the English Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,678 ratings — published 1963
Listen to the Moon (Lively St. Lemeston, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.99 — 866 ratings — published 2016
Young Mungo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.37 — 85,066 ratings — published 2022
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,365 ratings — published 2017
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.02 — 33,473 ratings — published 2018
Stone Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.54 — 35,979 ratings — published 1993
Empire Falls (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.95 — 125,700 ratings — published 2001
Returning to Reims (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.25 — 8,558 ratings — published 2009
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.44 — 624,449 ratings — published 1952
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.04 — 10,369 ratings — published 1914
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,347,653 ratings — published 2005
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.14 — 47,565 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 — 263,598 ratings — published 1980
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.11 — 395,045 ratings — published 2021
Mercury (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.79 — 19,362 ratings — published 2024
Skint Estate: A Memoir of Poverty, Motherhood and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,564 ratings — published 2019
How Late It Was, How Late (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.60 — 4,710 ratings — published 1994
À la ligne (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,792 ratings — published 2019
A Substitute Wife for the Prizefighter (Victorian Prizefighters, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,694 ratings — published 2020
A Bride for the Prizefighter (Victorian Prizefighters, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,020 ratings — published 2020
Ocean State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.43 — 4,919 ratings — published 2022
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.67 — 364,328 ratings — published 2016
Qui a tué mon père (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.17 — 21,448 ratings — published 2018
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.50 — 136,805 ratings — published 1928
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,470,431 ratings — published 1945
The Iron Heel (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.77 — 12,271 ratings — published 1908
David Copperfield (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.04 — 256,623 ratings — published 1850
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.92 — 75,389 ratings — published 1975
Thief of Shadows (Maiden Lane, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,937 ratings — published 2012
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 — 19,139 ratings — published 2012
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.86 — 111,992 ratings — published 2019
Sons and Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.64 — 55,602 ratings — published 1913
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,825,588 ratings — published 2018
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.28 — 324,928 ratings — published 1987
“To all you who believe we shouldn't have a minimum wage -- that the minimum amount you can be paid should be determined solely by your employer. We tried it once before: it was called SLAVERY.”
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“--You're rather well read for a working-class girl, she said with her back to me.
--Really? I've found that all my well-read friends are from the working class.
--Oh my. Why do you think that is? The purity of poverty?
--No. It's just that reading is the cheapest form of entertainment.
--Sex is the cheapest form of entertainment.
--Not in this house.”
― Rules of Civility
--Really? I've found that all my well-read friends are from the working class.
--Oh my. Why do you think that is? The purity of poverty?
--No. It's just that reading is the cheapest form of entertainment.
--Sex is the cheapest form of entertainment.
--Not in this house.”
― Rules of Civility
