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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 — 195,626 ratings — published 2001
The Road to Wigan Pier (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,639 ratings — published 1937
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,846,327 ratings — published 1937
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.03 — 997,043 ratings — published 1939
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.30 — 192,270 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 — 505,608 ratings — published 2016
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.08 — 10,844 ratings — published 2011
North and South (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.15 — 183,788 ratings — published 1855
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,491 ratings — published 1958
Last Night at the Lobster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.60 — 13,576 ratings — published 2007
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.09 — 101,658 ratings — published 1933
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.78 — 154,944 ratings — published 1906
A Kestrel for a Knave (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.07 — 8,098 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 — 139,797 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 — 88,600 ratings — published 2022
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,708 ratings — published 2017
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.02 — 34,472 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 — 113,630 ratings — published 2019
Stone Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.54 — 36,899 ratings — published 1993
Empire Falls (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.95 — 126,224 ratings — published 2001
Returning to Reims (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.25 — 8,932 ratings — published 2009
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.44 — 643,542 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 — 1,366,849 ratings — published 2005
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.14 — 47,864 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 — 266,850 ratings — published 1980
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.09 — 448,701 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 — 2,897 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 — 239,551 ratings — published 2012
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.67 — 376,644 ratings — published 2016
Qui a tué mon père (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.17 — 22,864 ratings — published 2018
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.50 — 138,250 ratings — published 1928
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.01 — 409,724 ratings — published 2019
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,575,595 ratings — published 1945
The Iron Heel (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.78 — 12,464 ratings — published 1908
David Copperfield (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.04 — 259,305 ratings — published 1850
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.92 — 76,125 ratings — published 1975
Thief of Shadows (Maiden Lane, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.08 — 14,088 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 — 19,235 ratings — published 2012
Sons and Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.64 — 55,877 ratings — published 1913
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,870,433 ratings — published 2018
“She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hated herself so there wasn't much point in trying to do better.”
― Back Roads
― Back Roads
“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
