Class Consciousness Books
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Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.27 — 60,399 ratings — published 2023
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 264,456 ratings — published 1980
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 195,617 ratings — published 1848
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.59 — 34,184 ratings — published 1981
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 38,860 ratings — published 1968
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 26,598 ratings — published 2011
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 112,941 ratings — published 2016
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 3 times as class-consciousness)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,229 ratings — published 2001
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.16 — 183,391 ratings — published 2016
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,802,742 ratings — published 2008
The Marx-Engels Reader (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 7,004 ratings — published 1971
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 10,922 ratings — published 1993
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.51 — 29,762 ratings — published 2003
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,390,177 ratings — published 1949
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.52 — 116,711 ratings — published 2010
Das Kapital (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as class-consciousness)
avg rating 3.91 — 12,138 ratings — published 1867
Reform or Revolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 4,838 ratings — published 1900
Morning Star (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] (Red Rising Saga #3)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.77 — 418 ratings — published 2016
A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 5.00 — 6 ratings — published
Morning Star (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] (Red Rising Saga #3)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.69 — 519 ratings — published
When We Lost Our Heads (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 15,988 ratings — published 2022
Red Rising (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] (Red Rising Saga #1)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,272 ratings — published 2023
Ring Shout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 3.94 — 54,816 ratings — published 2020
Golden Son (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] (Red Rising Saga #2)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.57 — 873 ratings — published 2015
Up Against the Ivy Wall: A History of the Columbia Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.22 — 9 ratings — published 1968
The Lamplighter’s Bookshop (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 4,888 ratings — published 2025
Golden Son (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] (Red Rising Saga #2)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.68 — 628 ratings — published
Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 2.96 — 560 ratings — published 2025
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
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avg rating 4.50 — 1,315 ratings — published 2025
Salt Bones (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 1,223 ratings — published 2025
The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 1,740 ratings — published 2024
Claimed by the Flame of Faery (Monsters of Faery, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,623 ratings — published 2023
As flores do bem: A ciência e a história da libertação da maconha (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.57 — 125 ratings — published
Touch Me, I'm Sick: A Memoir in Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 32 ratings — published
Restaurant Kid: A Memoir of Family and Belonging (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.18 — 591 ratings — published 2025
Moderation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.57 — 2,223 ratings — published 2025
Red Rising (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] (Red Rising Saga #1)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.51 — 940 ratings — published 2023
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 3.64 — 348,025 ratings — published 2018
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 3.46 — 318,677 ratings — published 2019
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.78 — 3,458 ratings — published 2025
Alchemised (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 115,162 ratings — published 2025
The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges -- and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 985 ratings — published 2006
A People's History of American Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,960 ratings — published 2008
How The Other Half Learns: Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.30 — 689 ratings — published
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 4.44 — 35,259 ratings — published 2015
Queering Anarchism: Addressing and Undressing Power and Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as class-consciousness)
avg rating 3.92 — 510 ratings — published 2013
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 8,330 ratings — published
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 24,171 ratings — published 1988
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 580 ratings — published 1979
Firstborn Girls: A Memoir (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 599 ratings — published 2025
“Guitars (except when played in "classical"—that is, archaic—style) are low [status] by nature, and that is why they were so often employed as tools of intentional class degradation by young people in the 1960s and '70s. The guitar was the perfect instrument for the purpose of signaling these young people's flight from the upper-middle and middle classes, associated as it is with Gypsies, cowhands, and other personnel without inherited or often even earned money and without fixed residence.”
― Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
― Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
“Individuals were all right, she said to herself, lots of them, but it was this rigid system that kept people from knowing each other. Was there another country in the world where the class barriers were so high as in England, and where it was so loudly proclaimed that none existed at all?”
― Clash
― Clash

