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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
Members: 7 participating members
Dilara86, thecoroner, ahef1963, dara85, KimarieBee, bluepiano

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Rank Title Author Added

1

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

37,401 members

423 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, Dilara86, ahef1963

2

5,228 members

77 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, Dilara86

3

by Frank McCourt

21,594 members

335 reviews

4

3 Members: dara85, thecoroner, Dilara86

4

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

16,142 members

431 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

5

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

33,474 members

460 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, Dilara86

6

by Rohinton Mistry

9,019 members

251 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

7

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

3,953 members

78 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: KimarieBee, Dilara86

8

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

6,577 members

328 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

9

by Charles Dickens

10,285 members

127 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

10

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

38,094 members

645 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

11

2,624 members

61 reviews

4.1

Member: KimarieBee

12

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

by Robert Tressell

1,564 members

39 reviews

4

Member: Dilara86

13

by Mary Jane Auch

471 members

23 reviews

4

Member: dara85

14

Family and Kinship in East London

by Michael Dunlop Young

179 members

6 reviews

4.1

Member: bluepiano

15

2,351 members

44 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

16

Hard Living on Clay Street: Portraits of Blue Collar Families

by Joseph T. Howell

70 members

3.9

Member: bluepiano

17

Cathedral: Stories

by Raymond Carver

3,004 members

96 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

18

430 members

14 reviews

3.8

Member: Dilara86

19

Death of a Salesman [critical edition]

by Arthur Miller

1,246 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

20

A Kestrel for a Knave

1,024 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: Dilara86

21

by Vasco Pratolini

180 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thecoroner

22

The House at Riverton

5,335 members

245 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

23

The 42nd Parallel

by John Dos Passos

1,596 members

21 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

24

by Annie Ernaux

645 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Dilara86

25

by Gertrude Stein

1,711 members

16 reviews

3

Member: thecoroner

26

A Woman's Story

by Annie Ernaux

379 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: Dilara86

27

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

9,963 members

139 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

28

by Richard Russo

8,679 members

180 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

29

by Annie Ernaux

945 members

48 reviews

4.1

Member: Dilara86

30

by Upton Sinclair

11,395 members

127 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

31

North and South

by Elizabeth Gaskell

7,258 members

242 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

32

Cry, Mother Spain

by Lydie Salvayre

153 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Dilara86

33

Sons And Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

9,349 members

95 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

34

by Lydie Salvayre

19 members

½ 3.4

Member: Dilara86

35

The Water Babies

by Charles Kingsley

2,835 members

43 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ahef1963

36

The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant

by Michel Tremblay

293 members

14 reviews

3.8

Member: Dilara86

37

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

7,783 members

92 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

38

My Brilliant Friend

by Elena Ferrante

6,840 members

306 reviews

3.9

Member: Dilara86

39

2,054 members

39 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

40

Black Shack Alley

by Joseph Zobel

114 members

4

Member: Dilara86

41

The Disinherited

68 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: thecoroner

42

by Theodore Dreiser

3,979 members

59 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Dilara86

43

by Edward Dahlberg

29 members

1 review

3

Member: thecoroner

44

Cider with Rosie

2,590 members

55 reviews

3.9

Member: Dilara86

45

448 members

21 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

46

Love on the Dole

by Walter Greenwood

336 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

47

by Annie Ernaux

145 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: Dilara86

48

Life in the Iron Mills

by Rebecca Harding Davis

121 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

49

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

by Alan Sillitoe

1,037 members

17 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thecoroner

50

Stockholm, City of My Dreams

by Per Anders Fogelström

276 members

2 reviews

4

Member: Dilara86

51

The Story of a New Name

by Elena Ferrante

3,309 members

135 reviews

4.2

Member: Dilara86

52

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

by Elena Ferrante

2,774 members

90 reviews

4.2

Member: Dilara86

53

The Crab Cannery Ship and Other Novels of Struggle

by Takiji Kobayashi

26 members

5

Member: thecoroner

54

610 members

10 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

55

The Great Hunger

by Patrick Kavanagh

64 members

4

Member: Dilara86

56

The Magic of Blood

by Dagoberto Gilb

136 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: thecoroner

57

Independent People

by Halldór Laxness

2,820 members

98 reviews

4.1

Member: Dilara86

58

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

1,299 members

29 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

59

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

by Shirō Ōyama

42 members

3.2

Member: thecoroner

60

The End of Eddy: A Novel

by Édouard Louis

815 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Dilara86

61

Who Killed My Father

by Édouard Louis

239 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: Dilara86

62

19,239 members

219 reviews

3.9

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

63

London's Underworld

by Peter Quennell

139 members

½ 4.3

Explanations: bluepiano : Good book, though.

64

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

by Alan Sillitoe

1,544 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

65

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

by Studs Terkel

2,073 members

19 reviews

4.2

66

Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

582 members

13 reviews

3.8

67

The Working Poor: Invisible in America

by David K. Shipler

1,339 members

23 reviews

4

68

Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

by Dorothy Allison

864 members

17 reviews

3.9

69

A People's History of the United States

14,505 members

151 reviews

4.2

70

Mig äger ingen

by Åsa Linderborg

335 members

15 reviews

4.1

71

by Irvine Welsh

7,639 members

79 reviews

4

72

by Jonathan Evison

323 members

21 reviews

3.9

73

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

by Stephanie Land

1,107 members

57 reviews

½ 3.6

74

Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century

by Harry Braverman

470 members

3 reviews

½ 4.4

75

Esperanza Rising

by Pam Muñoz Ryan

10,579 members

804 reviews

4.2

76

by Graham Swift

2,744 members

43 reviews

½ 3.6

77

by Douglas Stuart

2,247 members

116 reviews

4.2

78

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes

by Jonathan Rose

273 members

2 reviews

4.1

79

Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

by Jefferson R. Cowie

240 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

80

Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, And The Black Working Class

by Robin D. G. Kelley

229 members

1 review

½ 4.3

81

Rich: A Dyamonde Daniel Book

by Nikki Grimes

227 members

35 reviews

4.2

82

Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives

by Carolyn Kay Steedman

180 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

83

Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working-Class Family

by Lillian B. Rubin

160 members

½ 3.3

84

Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir

by Lillian Faderman

157 members

3 reviews

4.1

85

America's Working Women: A Documentary History 1600 to the Present

by Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall

137 members

½ 3.5

86

Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Working Class Counterculture

by Franklin Rosemont

70 members

1 review

½ 3.5

87

Common People: An Anthology of Working-Class Writers

53 members

1 review

4.1

88

American Working-Class Literature: An Anthology

by Nicholas Coles

28 members

1 review

½ 4.5

89

by John Steinbeck

9,667 members

182 reviews

4

90

by Charles Bukowski

4,669 members

82 reviews

4.1

91

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

by Nancy Isenberg

2,131 members

76 reviews

½ 3.6

92

by Alasdair Gray

1,982 members

37 reviews

4

93

Women, Race, and Class

by Angela Y. Davis

1,965 members

17 reviews

½ 4.4

94

1,849 members

32 reviews

4.1

95

How the Other Half Lives

by Jacob A. Riis

1,390 members

9 reviews

3.9

96

by Chris Cleave

1,153 members

65 reviews

3.8

97

by James T. Farrell

966 members

13 reviews

3.9

98

Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line

515 members

10 reviews

3.8

99

A Taste of Honey: A Play

by Shelagh Delaney

458 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

100

Swimming to Elba

by Silvia Avallone

447 members

36 reviews

½ 3.6

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April 2016
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