East of Eden

John Steinbeck

1952 ★ 4.1

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

1839 ★ 4.1

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

1843 ★ 4.0

Angela's Ashes

Frank McCourt

1996 ★ 3.8

The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

1881 ★ 3.8

Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell

1933 ★ 4.2

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers

1940 ★ 4.1

Nickel and Dimed

Barbara Ehrenreich

2001 ★ 3.6

Quarto de Despejo

Carolina Maria de Jesus

1962 ★ 4.4

The Old Curiosity Shop

Charles Dickens

1840 ★ 4.0

The White Tiger

Aravind Adiga

2008

Tortilla Flat

John Steinbeck

1935 ★ 4.2

Salvage the Bones

Jesmyn Ward

2011 ★ 3.7

The House of the Dead

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1881 ★ 4.6

Crenshaw

Katherine Applegate

2015 ★ 4.4

La danse du dragon

Earl Lovelace

1981 ★ 3.2

The White Tiger

Aravind Adiga

2008 ★ 3.8

The Bed and Breakfast Star

Jacqueline Wilson

1995 ★ 3.2

Maddi's Fridge

Lois Brandt

2014 ★ 4.3

Rabbit, Run

John Updike

1960 ★ 3.9

The Hungry Tide

Amitav Ghosh, Yaʻel Akhmon

2004 ★ 4.2

Mountains Beyond Mountains

Tracy Kidder

2003 ★ 4.3

Behind the beautiful forevers

Katherine Boo

2011 ★ 3.9

Mishneh Torah (Codification of Talmudic laws)

Moses Maimonides

1850

Silas Marner

John O'Connor, Julius Frese, George Eliot et al.

1860 ★ 3.8

Christ in Concrete

Pietro Di Donato

1939

Shutting out the sky

Deborah Hopkinson

2003 ★ 4.2

In the skin of a lion

Michael Ondaatje

1987 ★ 4.2

La cité de la joie

Dominique Lapierre

1985 ★ 4.0

A framework for understanding poverty

Ruby K. Payne

1995