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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 — 196,615 ratings — published 2001
The Road to Wigan Pier (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.91 — 29,709 ratings — published 1937
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,018,595 ratings — published 1939
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,920,921 ratings — published 1937
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.30 — 201,962 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 — 512,537 ratings — published 2016
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,108 ratings — published 2011
North and South (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.15 — 188,162 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 — 13,904 ratings — published 2007
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.09 — 105,035 ratings — published 1933
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.78 — 157,147 ratings — published 1906
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.92 — 142,711 ratings — published 1971
A Kestrel for a Knave (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,458 ratings — published 1968
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.02 — 36,453 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 — 127,392 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 — 96,231 ratings — published 2022
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.02 — 51,380 ratings — published 2017
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,749,194 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 — 115,795 ratings — published 2019
Stone Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.55 — 38,989 ratings — published 1993
Returning to Reims (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.24 — 9,589 ratings — published 2009
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.45 — 695,153 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 — 7,775 ratings — published 1959
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,398,850 ratings — published 2005
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,816 ratings — published 1992
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.02 — 47,972 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 — 272,172 ratings — published 1980
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,686,571 ratings — published 1948
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,028,977 ratings — published 1859
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.07 — 498,680 ratings — published 2021
Mercury (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.78 — 20,401 ratings — published 2024
Skint Estate: A Memoir of Poverty, Motherhood and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,648 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 — 66,188 ratings — published 2023
À la ligne (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,111 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 — 5,099 ratings — published 2022
The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.47 — 252,301 ratings — published 2012
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.66 — 400,891 ratings — published 2016
Qui a tué mon père (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.18 — 25,271 ratings — published 2018
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.50 — 141,229 ratings — published 1928
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.99 — 435,303 ratings — published 2019
The Iron Heel (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.78 — 13,013 ratings — published 1908
David Copperfield (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.05 — 264,751 ratings — published 1850
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 3.92 — 77,490 ratings — published 1975
Thief of Shadows (Maiden Lane, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as working-class)
avg rating 4.08 — 14,328 ratings — published 2012
“Let these men sing out their songs,
they've been walking all day long,
all their fortune's spent and gone...
silver dollar in the subway station;
quarters for the papers for the jobs.”
―
they've been walking all day long,
all their fortune's spent and gone...
silver dollar in the subway station;
quarters for the papers for the jobs.”
―
“--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
