Topic
Class
4 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Best Books About Class and Inequality: Essential Reading List
The best books about class and inequality — from The Grapes of Wrath and Les Misérables to Hillbilly Elegy and Normal People. Literature on poverty, privilege, and social mobility.
Best Books About Poverty and Inequality: Essential Non-Fiction and Fiction
The best books about poverty and inequality — from The Grapes of Wrath and Shuggie Bain to The Warmth of Other Suns and The New Jim Crow. Essential reading.
Books Like Great Expectations: Class, Self-Invention, and the Education of Pip
Dickens's Pip — raised by his sister, mentored by a convict, in love with the cold Estella, and ashamed of where he came from — is the great portrait of aspiration and its costs. These books share his journey from obscurity toward a 'gentleman,' and what it takes from them.
Books Like The Great Gatsby: The American Dream, Class, and Longing
Fitzgerald's portrait of Jay Gatsby reaching for the green light is the defining American novel of illusion and disillusion. These books share its obsession with reinvention, its gorgeous prose, and its brutal honesty about who America lets succeed.
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