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Fiction about the Working Class

Description: Books that focus on the working class, past and present.
Based on tag: working class

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Rank Title Author Added

1

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

38,946 members

516 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, Dilara86, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

43,836 members

479 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thecoroner, Dilara86, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

44,464 members

723 reviews

3.9

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by Charles Dickens

11,950 members

146 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

5

by Richard Russo

9,249 members

191 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

6,133 members

89 reviews

4.2

2 Members: thecoroner, Dilara86

7

by Frank McCourt

23,578 members

351 reviews

4

3 Members: dara85, thecoroner, Dilara86

8

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

18,479 members

481 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

9

by Rohinton Mistry

9,965 members

272 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

10

by Upton Sinclair

13,323 members

146 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Communist Manifesto

17,981 members

163 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, HelgeM

12

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

4,321 members

84 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: KimarieBee, Dilara86

13

North and South

by Elizabeth Gaskell

8,608 members

262 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

9,228 members

112 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Cathedral: Stories

by Raymond Carver

3,408 members

97 reviews

4.2

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

16

Death of a Salesman [critical edition]

by Arthur Miller

1,168 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

17

The House at Riverton

6,011 members

264 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

18

by John Steinbeck

11,118 members

213 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

9,721 members

131 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

2,983 members

68 reviews

4.1

Member: KimarieBee

21

Stone Butch Blues

by Leslie Feinberg

2,499 members

45 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

22

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

by Robert Tressell

1,794 members

42 reviews

4

Member: Dilara86

23

The Condition of the Working Class in England

by Friedrich Engels

1,245 members

10 reviews

4

Member: HelgeM

24

by Mary Jane Auch

528 members

25 reviews

4

Member: dara85

25

Family and Kinship in East London

by Michael Dunlop Young

203 members

7 reviews

4.1

Member: bluepiano

26

Independent People

by Halldór Laxness

3,404 members

120 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Dilara86, ahef1963

27

2,661 members

52 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

28

Hard Living on Clay Street: Portraits of Blue Collar Families

by Joseph T. Howell

80 members

3.8

Member: bluepiano

29

457 members

15 reviews

3.8

Member: Dilara86

30

A Chair for My Mother

by Vera B. Williams

8,062 members

250 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

31

A Kestrel for a Knave

1,197 members

20 reviews

3.9

Member: Dilara86

32

by Vasco Pratolini

211 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thecoroner

33

The 42nd Parallel

by John Dos Passos

1,839 members

30 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

34

by Annie Ernaux

971 members

37 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Dilara86

35

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

8,820 members

397 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

36

by Gertrude Stein

1,935 members

21 reviews

3

Member: thecoroner

37

A Woman's Story

by Annie Ernaux

604 members

24 reviews

4

Member: Dilara86

38

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

11,208 members

157 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

39

by Annie Ernaux

1,804 members

73 reviews

4

Member: Dilara86

40

Cry, Mother Spain

by Lydie Salvayre

187 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Dilara86

41

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

10,432 members

104 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

42

by Lydie Salvayre

19 members

½ 3.4

Member: Dilara86

43

The Water-Babies

by Charles Kingsley

3,361 members

55 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ahef1963

44

The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant

by Michel Tremblay

309 members

14 reviews

3.8

Member: Dilara86

45

My Brilliant Friend

by Elena Ferrante

9,420 members

387 reviews

3.9

Member: Dilara86

46

2,316 members

43 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

47

Black Shack Alley

by Joseph Zobel

137 members

4.2

Member: Dilara86

48

The Disinherited

75 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: thecoroner

49

by Theodore Dreiser

4,380 members

67 reviews

3.8

Member: Dilara86

50

by Edward Dahlberg

34 members

1 review

3

Member: thecoroner

51

Cider with Rosie

2,862 members

65 reviews

3.9

Member: Dilara86

52

487 members

23 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

53

Love on the Dole

by Walter Greenwood

371 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

54

by Annie Ernaux

204 members

5 reviews

4.1

Member: Dilara86

55

Life in the Iron Mills

by Rebecca Harding Davis

139 members

3 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

56

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

by Alan Sillitoe

1,138 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thecoroner

57

Stockholm, City of My Dreams

by Per Anders Fogelström

343 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: Dilara86

58

The Story of a New Name

by Elena Ferrante

4,429 members

172 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Dilara86

59

by Elizabeth Gaskell

3,009 members

73 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

60

Down and Out in Paris and London

by George Orwell

8,740 members

152 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

61

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

by Elena Ferrante

3,703 members

117 reviews

4.2

Member: Dilara86

62

The Crab Cannery Ship and Other Novels of Struggle

by Takiji Kobayashi

41 members

5

Member: thecoroner

63

by Douglas Stuart

3,704 members

154 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

64

695 members

10 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

65

The Great Hunger

by Patrick Kavanagh

122 members

1 review

4.1

Member: Dilara86

66

The Magic of Blood

by Dagoberto Gilb

153 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: thecoroner

67

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

1,497 members

30 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

68

A Man with No Talents: Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer

by Shirō Ōyama

55 members

1 review

3.2

Member: thecoroner

69

The End of Eddy

by Édouard Louis

1,064 members

34 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Dilara86

70

Who Killed My Father

by Édouard Louis

379 members

12 reviews

3.9

Member: Dilara86

71

Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

707 members

16 reviews

3.8

Member: Dilara86

72

22,036 members

261 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963,bluepiano
Explanations: bluepiano : Nothing markedly working-class about it.

73

Billy Liar: a novel

by Keith Waterhouse

679 members

15 reviews

3.8

74

London's Underworld

by Peter Quennell

147 members

½ 4.3

Explanations: bluepiano : Good book, though.

75

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

by Barbara Ehrenreich

11,741 members

231 reviews

½ 3.7

76

The Making of the English Working Class

by E. P. Thompson

2,009 members

11 reviews

4.1

77

The Road to Wigan Pier

by George Orwell

3,960 members

54 reviews

3.8

78

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

by Alan Sillitoe

1,750 members

33 reviews

½ 3.7

79

Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do

by Studs Terkel

2,348 members

24 reviews

4.2

80

Last Night at the Lobster

by Stewart O'Nan

1,468 members

134 reviews

3.8

81

The Working Poor: Invisible in America

by David K. Shipler

1,455 members

23 reviews

4

82

by Dorothy Allison

1,012 members

12 reviews

4

83

A People's History of the United States

17,152 members

172 reviews

4.2

84

Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

by Dorothy Allison

955 members

18 reviews

3.9

85

Without a net : the female experience of growing up working class

by Michelle Tea

243 members

2 reviews

4.1

86

The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class

by David R. Roediger

693 members

3 reviews

4.1

87

Mig äger ingen

by Åsa Linderborg

357 members

15 reviews

4

88

by Irvine Welsh

8,429 members

89 reviews

4

89

The War That Saved My Life

by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

3,890 members

384 reviews

½ 4.6

90

Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

by Stephanie Land

1,641 members

81 reviews

½ 3.6

91

The Barrytown Trilogy

1,314 members

13 reviews

4.1

92

by Jonathan Evison

469 members

28 reviews

3.9

93

Bastard Out of Carolina

by Dorothy Allison

5,589 members

124 reviews

4

94

Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War

916 members

50 reviews

3.8

95

by Brendan O'Carroll

773 members

29 reviews

4

96

The Uses of Literacy

by Richard Hoggart

623 members

10 reviews

4.1

97

Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

by Nicholas D. Kristof

449 members

23 reviews

4.2

98

Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850

by Sean Wilentz

256 members

1 review

½ 3.5

99

Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams

by Alfred Lubrano

234 members

7 reviews

3.8

100

Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature

by Dorothy Allison

638 members

1 review

½ 4.3

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