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*Fictional Books

Books

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On Socio-Economic Class

  • The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die by Keith B. Payne

  • Class: A Guide Through the American Status System by Paul Fussell

  • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas

  • Unequal Childhoods by Annette Lareau

  • Facing Social Class: How Societal Rank Influences Interaction by Fiske and Markus

  • The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future by Joseph Stiglitz

  • Decolonizing Wealth by Edgar Villanueva

  • The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them by Joseph Stiglitz

  • Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality by Hacker and Pierson

  • Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War by Joe Bageant

  • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

  • Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class by Robert H. Frank

  • Janesville: An American Story by Amy Goldstein

  • Taxing the Poor: Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged by Katherine S. Newman and Rourke L. O’Brien

  • Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

  • Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance

  • Reading Classes: On Culture and Classism in American by Barbara Jenson

  • *The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • *Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour

  • *Such a Rush by Jennifer Echols

  • *The Lines Between Us by Lawrence Lanahan

  • *The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

  • *The Talking Drum by Lisa Braxton

  • *Money Hungry by Sharon G. Flake

  • *With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

  • *Illegal by Bettina Restrepo

  • *Capital by John Lancaster

  • *Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn

  • *Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem

  • *The Invaders by Karolina Waclawiak

  • *Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa

  • *These Dreams of You by Steve Erickson

  • *Rina by Kang Young-sook

  • *The Mare by Mary Gaitskill

  • *Moxyland by Lauren Beukes

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