Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

1863 ★ 3.8

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

1906 ★ 4.3

Candide

Voltaire

1759 ★ 4.0

Martin Eden

Jack London

1908 ★ 3.8

Industrial Accident Prevention

Herbert William Heinrich

1950 ★ 3.7

Our Man in Havana

Graham Greene

1958 ★ 3.3

The Return of the Native

Thomas Hardy

1878 ★ 4.0

Lean In

Sheryl Sandberg, Nell Scovell

2013 ★ 3.7

Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy

1895 ★ 3.9

Germinal

Émile Zola

1885 ★ 4.2

Beyond culture

Edward T. Hall, Edward Twitchell Hall

1976

The Last of the Wine

Mary Renault

1956

Boots of leather, slippers of gold

Madeline D. Davis, Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy

1993

The Road to Wigan Pier

George Orwell

1937 ★ 3.8

Working

Studs Terkel

1974

Mary Barton

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

1848 ★ 3.4

Living my Life

Emma Goldman

1934 ★ 5.0

Adam Bede

Gordon Frederick Browne, George Eliot, Robert Lewis Weed et al.

1800 ★ 3.4

The making of the English working class

E. P. Thompson, E.P. Thompson

1963

Mother

Максим Горький

1907 ★ 4.0

Lawn boy

Jonathan Evison

2018

Lanark

Alasdair Gray

1985 ★ 5.0

Empire Falls

Richard Russo

2001 ★ 3.8

Skagboys

Irvine Welsh

2012 ★ 4.7

Tell Me a Riddle

Tillie Olsen

1961

Room at the Top a Novel

John Braine, Braine, John

1957

The crown of wild olives

John Ruskin

1882

Querelle de Brest

Jean Genet

1969 ★ 4.0

The Mallen streak

Catherine Cookson

1973

Half slave and half free

Bruce C. Levine

1991