Fiction about the Working Class

Descrição
Books that focus on the working class, past and present.
Baseada na etiqueta
working class
1
Great Expectations
por Charles Dickens
38,441 membros
435 críticas
3.9
3 Members
thecoroner, Dilara86, ahef1963
2
Germinal
por Émile Zola
5,362 membros
79 críticas
4.1
2 Members
thecoroner, Dilara86
3
Angela's Ashes
por Frank McCourt
21,842 membros
337 críticas
4
3 Members
dara85, thecoroner, Dilara86
4
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
por Betty Smith
16,512 membros
442 críticas
½ 4.3
2 Members
dara85, ahef1963
5
The Grapes of Wrath
por John Steinbeck
34,272 membros
471 críticas
4.1
2 Members
thecoroner, Dilara86
6
A Fine Balance
por Rohinton Mistry
9,165 membros
255 críticas
½ 4.4
2 Members
KimarieBee, ahef1963
7
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
por Roddy Doyle
4,024 membros
79 críticas
½ 3.7
2 Members
KimarieBee, Dilara86
8
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
por J. D. Vance
6,861 membros
336 críticas
½ 3.7
2 Members
dara85, ahef1963
9
Hard Times
por Charles Dickens
10,549 membros
131 críticas
½ 3.5
2 Members
thecoroner, ahef1963
10
Of Mice and Men
por John Steinbeck
39,026 membros
662 críticas
3.9
2 Members
thecoroner, ahef1963
11
Cloudstreet
por Tim Winton
2,662 membros
61 críticas
4.1
Member
KimarieBee
12
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
por Robert Tressell
1,602 membros
40 críticas
4
Member
Dilara86
13
Ashes of Roses
por Mary Jane Auch
484 membros
24 críticas
4
Member
dara85
14
Family and Kinship in East London
por Michael Dunlop Young
180 membros
6 críticas
4.1
Member
bluepiano
15
L'Assommoir
por Émile Zola
2,423 membros
46 críticas
4.1
Member
thecoroner
16
Hard Living on Clay Street: Portraits of Blue Collar Families
por Joseph T. Howell
71 membros
3.9
Member
bluepiano
17
Cathedral: Stories
por Raymond Carver
3,083 membros
96 críticas
4.2
Member
thecoroner
18
Union Street
por Pat Barker
435 membros
14 críticas
3.8
Member
Dilara86
19
Death of a Salesman [critical edition]
por Arthur Miller
1,258 membros
8 críticas
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
20
A Kestrel for a Knave
por Barry Hines
1,046 membros
18 críticas
3.8
Member
Dilara86
21
Metello
por Vasco Pratolini
185 membros
4 críticas
½ 3.6
Member
thecoroner
22
The House at Riverton
por Kate Morton
5,428 membros
249 críticas
3.8
Member
dara85
23
The 42nd Parallel
por John Dos Passos
1,633 membros
23 críticas
3.8
Member
thecoroner
24
A Man's Place
por Annie Ernaux
699 membros
29 críticas
½ 3.7
Member
Dilara86
25
Three Lives
por Gertrude Stein
1,739 membros
16 críticas
3
Member
thecoroner
26
A Woman's Story
por Annie Ernaux
422 membros
15 críticas
3.9
Member
Dilara86
27
Jude the Obscure
por Thomas Hardy
10,154 membros
141 críticas
3.9
Member
thecoroner
28
Empire Falls
por Richard Russo
8,773 membros
182 críticas
3.9
Member
ahef1963
29
The Years
por Annie Ernaux
1,026 membros
52 críticas
4.1
Member
Dilara86
30
The Jungle
por Upton Sinclair
11,626 membros
129 críticas
3.8
Member
thecoroner
31
North and South
por Elizabeth Gaskell
7,414 membros
245 críticas
4.1
Member
ahef1963
32
Cry, Mother Spain
por Lydie Salvayre
157 membros
11 críticas
½ 3.7
Member
Dilara86
33
Sons and Lovers
por D. H. Lawrence
9,501 membros
100 críticas
½ 3.6
Member
ahef1963
34
The Award
por Lydie Salvayre
19 membros
½ 3.4
Member
Dilara86
35
The Water Babies
por Charles Kingsley
2,938 membros
46 críticas
½ 3.3
Member
ahef1963
36
The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant
por Michel Tremblay
295 membros
14 críticas
3.8
Member
Dilara86
37
A Streetcar Named Desire
por Tennessee Williams
8,027 membros
95 críticas
3.9
Member
ahef1963
38
My Brilliant Friend
por Elena Ferrante
7,148 membros
315 críticas
3.9
Member
Dilara86
39
Call It Sleep
por Henry Roth
2,102 membros
40 críticas
3.9
Member
thecoroner
40
Black Shack Alley
por Joseph Zobel
114 membros
4
Member
Dilara86
41
The Disinherited
por Jack Conroy
68 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.6
Member
thecoroner
42
Sister Carrie
por Theodore Dreiser
4,041 membros
60 críticas
½ 3.7
Member
Dilara86
43
Bottom Dogs
por Edward Dahlberg
30 membros
1 crítica
3
Member
thecoroner
44
Cider with Rosie
por Laurie Lee
2,632 membros
56 críticas
3.9
Member
Dilara86
45
Joe
por Larry Brown
454 membros
21 críticas
4
Member
thecoroner
46
Love on the Dole
por Walter Greenwood
345 membros
9 críticas
3.8
Member
thecoroner
47
Cleaned Out
por Annie Ernaux
160 membros
5 críticas
4
Member
Dilara86
48
Life in the Iron Mills
por Rebecca Harding Davis
126 membros
3 críticas
4.1
Member
thecoroner
49
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
por Alan Sillitoe
1,058 membros
17 críticas
½ 3.7
Member
thecoroner
50
Stockholm, City of My Dreams
por Per Anders Fogelström
288 membros
2 críticas
4
Member
Dilara86
51
The Story of a New Name
por Elena Ferrante
3,444 membros
139 críticas
4.2
Member
Dilara86
52
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
por Elena Ferrante
2,897 membros
91 críticas
4.2
Member
Dilara86
53
The Crab Cannery Ship and Other Novels of Struggle
por Takiji Kobayashi
26 membros
5
Member
thecoroner
54
The Death Ship
por B. Traven
627 membros
10 críticas
4.2
Member
thecoroner
55
The Great Hunger
por Patrick Kavanagh
77 membros
4
Member
Dilara86
56
The Magic of Blood
por Dagoberto Gilb
141 membros
2 críticas
½ 3.5
Member
thecoroner
57
Independent People
por Halldór Laxness
2,910 membros
102 críticas
4.2
Member
Dilara86
58
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
por Jorge Amado
1,326 membros
29 críticas
3.9
Member
thecoroner
59
A Man with No Talents: Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer
por Shirō Ōyama
44 membros
3.1
Member
thecoroner
60
The End of Eddy: A Novel
por Édouard Louis
847 membros
28 críticas
½ 3.7
Member
Dilara86
61
Who Killed My Father
por Édouard Louis
268 membros
13 críticas
3.8
Member
Dilara86
62
Dubliners
por James Joyce
19,685 membros
226 críticas
3.9
Member
ahef1963,bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano : Nothing markedly working-class about it.
63
London's Underworld
por Peter Quennell
142 membros
½ 4.3
Explicações
bluepiano : Good book, though.
64
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
por Barbara Ehrenreich
10,874 membros
212 críticas
½ 3.7
65
The Making of the English Working Class
por E. P. Thompson
1,779 membros
10 críticas
4.1
66
The Road to Wigan Pier
por George Orwell
3,466 membros
49 críticas
3.8
67
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
por Alan Sillitoe
1,575 membros
29 críticas
½ 3.7
68
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
por Studs Terkel
2,121 membros
20 críticas
4.2
69
Last Night at the Lobster
por Stewart O'Nan
1,365 membros
125 críticas
3.8
70
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
por Owen Jones
599 membros
14 críticas
3.8
71
The Condition of the Working Class in England
por Friedrich Engels
1,094 membros
8 críticas
4
72
The Working Poor: Invisible in America
por David K. Shipler
1,363 membros
23 críticas
4
73
Trash
por Dorothy Allison
948 membros
11 críticas
3.9
74
Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
por Dorothy Allison
877 membros
17 críticas
3.9
75
A People's History of the United States
por Howard Zinn
14,751 membros
158 críticas
4.2
76
Mig äger ingen
por Åsa Linderborg
339 membros
15 críticas
4.1
77
Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class
por Michelle Tea
228 membros
2 críticas
4.1
78
Trainspotting
por Irvine Welsh
7,753 membros
79 críticas
4
79
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
por David R. Roediger
619 membros
4 críticas
3.9
80
Bastard Out of Carolina
por Dorothy Allison
5,184 membros
119 críticas
4
81
The War That Saved My Life
por Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
3,048 membros
357 críticas
½ 4.6
82
Mary Barton
por Elizabeth Gaskell
2,670 membros
67 críticas
½ 3.7
83
The Barrytown Trilogy
por Roddy Doyle
1,230 membros
13 críticas
4.1
84
Down and Out in Paris and London
por George Orwell
7,807 membros
131 críticas
4
85
Stone Butch Blues
por Leslie Feinberg
2,100 membros
40 críticas
½ 4.3
86
Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
por Joe Bageant
860 membros
46 críticas
3.8
87
The Mammy
por Brendan O'Carroll
720 membros
28 críticas
3.9
88
Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature
por Dorothy Allison
597 membros
½ 4.3
89
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
por Nicholas D. Kristof
365 membros
21 críticas
4.2
90
Lawn Boy
por Jonathan Evison
344 membros
22 críticas
3.9
91
Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850
por Sean Wilentz
233 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.5
92
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
por Stephanie Land
1,216 membros
65 críticas
½ 3.6
93
The Uses of Literacy
por Richard Hoggart
550 membros
10 críticas
4
94
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
por Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy
437 membros
5 críticas
4
95
Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams
por Alfred Lubrano
213 membros
8 críticas
3.9
96
Just Henry
por Michelle Magorian
156 membros
9 críticas
½ 4.3
97
The Communist Manifesto
por Karl Marx
15,078 membros
137 críticas
½ 3.5
98
A Chair for My Mother
por Vera B. Williams
6,069 membros
246 críticas
4.2
99
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
por Harry Braverman
477 membros
3 críticas
½ 4.4