Working-Class Fiction
Compiled by Eric Schocket, Hampshire College 

Adamic, Louis. Grandsons: A Story of American Lives. New York: Harper and Bros., 1935. 
Agee, Jonis. Sweet Eyes. New York: Harper, 1991. 
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. The Stillwater Tragedy. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1880. 
Algren, Nelson. The Man with the Golden Arm. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1949. 
Algren, Nelson. Never Come Morning. New York: Harper & Bros., 1942. 
Allison, Dorothy. Bastard Out of Carolina. New York: Dutton, 1992. 
Anaya, Rudolfo. Bless Me, Ultima. New York: Warner Books, 1972. 
Anderson, Sherwood. Beyond Desire. New York: Liveright, Inc., 1932. 
Anderson, Sherwood. Kit Brandon: A Portrait. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. 
Anderson, Sherwood. Marching Men. New York: John Lane Co., 1917. 
Anderson, Sherwood. Poor White. New York: B.W. Huebsch, Inc., 1920. 
Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg, Ohio. New York: Modern Library, 1919. 
Appel, Benjamin. The Power-House. New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1939. 

"Argus." Norton: Lights and Shades of a Factory Village: A Tale of Lowell. Lowell, MA: Vox Populi Office, 1849. 
Armstrong, Arnold B. Parched Earth. New York: Macmillan Co., 1934. 
Arnow, Harriette. The Dollmaker. New York: Avon, 1972 
Arnow, Harriette. Hunter's Horn. New York: Macmillan, 1948. 
Ataway, William. Blood on the Forge. Chatham, NJ: Chatham Bookseller, 1969. 

Baker, Estelle. The Rose Door. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co., 1912. 
Baldwin, James. Another Country. New York: Dial Press, 1962. 
Baldwin, James. Just Above My Head. New York: Dial Press, 1979. 
Bambara, Toni Cade. The Salt Eaters. New York: Vintage, 1980. 
Banks, Russell. Continental Drift. New York: Harper & Row, 1985. 
Banks, Russell. Rule of the Bone. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1995. 
Banks, Russell. Success Stories. New York: Harper & Row, 1986. 
Banks, Russell. Trailerpark. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. 
Barber, Harriet Boomer (Faith Templeton). Drafted In: A Sequel to The Bread-Winners, A Social Study. New York: Bliss Publishing Co., 1888. 
Basso, Hamilton. In Their Own Image. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. 
Beals, Carleton. The Stones Awake. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1936. 
Beckley, Zoe. A Chance to Live. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1918. 
Bell, Thomas. All Brides are Beautiful. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1936. 
Bell, Thomas. Out of this Furnace. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1976. 
Bell, Thomas. The Second Prince. New York: G.P. Putnam's Son, 1935. 
Bellow, Saul. The Adventures of Augie Marsh. New York: Viking Press, 1953. 
Benedict, Frank L. Miss Van Kortland. New York: Harper and Bros., 1870. 
Benjamin, Charles. The Strike in the B--Mill: A Study. Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1887. 
Berman, Henry. Worshippers: A Novel. New York: The Grafton Press, 1906. 
Berry, Wendell. The Wild Birds: Six Stories. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1986. 
Bishop, R.F. Camerton Slope, A Story of Mining Life. Cincinnati: Cranston and Curts; New York: Hunt and Eaton, 1893. 
Blake, William J. The Painter and the Lady. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939. 
Bodenheim, Maxwell. Run, Sheep, Run: A Novel. New York: Liveright, Inc. Publishers, 1932. 
Bodenheim, Maxwell. Slow Vision. New York: The Macaulay Company, 1934. 
Bonosky, Philip. Burning Valley. New York: Masses & Mainstream, 1953. 
Boyd, Thomas. In Time of Peace. New York: Minton, Balch & Co., 1935. 
Braunbeck, Gary A.  "Union Dues", Borderlands 4.  Borderlands Press, 1994.  Reprinted in Things Left Behind and in Graveyard People:  The Collected Cedar Hill Stories, Volume 1.  Earthling Publications, July 2003. 
Brautigan, Richard. So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away. New York: Delcorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1982. 
Brenholtz, Edwin Arnold. The Recording Angel: A Novel. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co., 1905. 
Brody, Catherine. Nobody Starves. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1932. 
Brooks, Gwendolyn. Maud Martha. New York: Harper, 1953. 
Brower, James Hattan. The Mills of Mammon. Joliet, IL: P.H. Murray & Co., 1909. 
Brown, Lloyd L. Iron City. New York: Masses & Mainstream, 1951. 
Brown, Rita Mae. Rubyfruit Jungle. New York: Bantam, 1973. 
Brown, Rollo Walter. The Firemakers: A Novel of Environment. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1931. 
Bullard, Arthur (Albert Edwards). Comrade Yetta.  New York: Macmillan Co., 1913. 
Burke, Fielding. Call Home the Heart: A Novel of the Thirties. New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1932. 
Burke, Fielding (Dargan, Olive Tilford). A Stone Came Rolling. New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1935. 

Cahan, Abraham. The Rise of David Levinsky, 1st Harper Torchbooks ed. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1960. 
Caldwell, Erskine. American Earth. 
Caldwell, Erskine. God's Little Acre. New York: An American Library, 1934. 
Caldwell, Erskine. Tobacco Road. New York: New American Library, 1959. 
Caldwell, Erskine and Margaret Bourke White. You Have Seen their Faces. New York: Arno Press, 1975. 
Cantwell, Robert. The Land of Plenty. New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc., 1934. 
Cantwell, Robert. Laugh and Lie Down. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1931. 
Carver, Raymond. Cathedral. New York: Knopf, 1983. 
Carver, Raymond. Short Cuts: Selected Stories. New York: Vintage Books, 1993. 
Carver, Raymond. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. New York: Knopf, 1981. 
Cather, Willa. My Antonia. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1915. 
Cather, Willa. Oh! Pioneers! Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1918. 
Chase, Joan. During the Reign of the Queen of Persia. New York: Ballantine, 1983. 
Churchill, Thomas. Centralia Dead March. Williamantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1980. 
Churchill, Winston. The Dwelling-Place of Light. New York: Macmillan Co., 1917. 
Chute, Carolyn. The Beans of Egypt, Maine. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. 
Chute, Carolyn. Letourneau's Used Auto Parts. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. 
Chute, Carolyn. Merry Men. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994. 
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. Houston: Arte Publishing Press, 1988. 
Cisneros, Sandra. Woman Hollering Creek & Other Stories. New York: Random House, 1991. 
Cohen, Hyman and Lester. Aaron Traum. New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. 
Coleman, McAlister and Stephen Rauschenbush. Red Neck. New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1936. 
Colman, Louis. Lumber. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1931. 
Conroy, Jack. The Disinherited. New York: Hill and Wang, 1963. 
Conroy, Jack. A World to Win. New York: Covici-Friede Publishers, 1935. 
Converse, Florence. The Burden of Christopher. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1900. 
Converse, Florence. The Children of Light. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1912. 
Cook, George Cram. The Chasm. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1911. 
Cooper, Michael. Dues: A Novel of War and After. Williamantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1994 
Corbett, Elizabeth Frances. Charley Manning. New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1939. 
Corpi, Lucha. Delia's Song. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1989. 
Crane, Stephen. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. New York: D. Appleton, 1896. 
Cummings, Ariel Ivers. The Factory Girl or Gardez la Coeur. Lowell, MA: J.E. Short & Co., 1847. 
Cunningham, William. Pretty Boy. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1936. 
Cunningham, William. The Green Corn Rebellion. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1935. 
Curran, Dale. A House on a Street. New York: Covici-Friede, 1934. 
Cuthbert, Clifton. Another Such Victory. New York: Hillman-Curl, 1937. 

D'J Pancake, Breece. The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake. Boston: Little, Brown, 1983. 
Dahlberg, Edward. Bottom Dogs. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1930. 
Dahlberg, Edward. From Flushing to Calvary. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1932. 
Dahlberg, Edward. Those Who Perish. New York: The John Day Co., 1934. 
Daniels, Gertrude Potter. The Warners: An American Story of Today. Chicago: Jamieson and Higgins Co., 1901. 
Daniels, Jim Ray. Detroit Tales. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2003. 
Dargan, Olive Tilford (Fielding Burke). Call Home the Heart. New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1932. 
Dargan, Olive Tilford (Fielding Burke). A Stone Came Rolling. New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1935. 
Davenport, Marcia. The Valley of Decision. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. Reprinted by University of Pittsburg Press, 1989. 
Davis, Clyde Brion. The Great American Novel. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1938. 
Davis, Rebecca. Life in the Iron Mills or The Korl Woman, 1st. ed. New York: Feminist Press, 1972.  See also the 1997 Bedford/St. Martin's edition, edited by Cecilia Tichi. 
Davis, Rebecca Harding. Margaret Howth or a Story of Today. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862. Reprinted by New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York: Distributed by Talman Co., 1990. 
Delaney, Martin. Journal of a Young Man. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1936. 
Dell, Floyd. Diana Stair. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc., 1932. 
DiDonato, Pietro. Christ in Concrete. New York: Signet, 1993. 
Doctorow, E.L. Ragtime. New York: Random House, 1975. 
Dos Passos, John. Adventures of a Young Man. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1938. 
Dos Passos, John. U.S.A. (trilogy 1930-1936). New York: Modern Library, 1937. 
Douglas, Amanda M. Hope Mills or Between Friend and Sweetheart. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1879. Drayer, David. Strip Cuts. Los Angeles: Rowdy House, 2000.Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. 
Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie. New York: H. Liveright, 1929. 
Duffus, Robert Luther. Night Between the Rivers. New York: Macmillan Co., 1937. 
Duzanne, Augustine and Joseph Hickey. The Tenant-House or Embers from Poverty's Hearthstone. New York: International Book Co., 1860. 
Dybek, Stuart. The Coast of Chicago. New York: Alred A. Knopf, 1990. 

Eastman, Max. Venture. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. 
Edwards, Albert (Bullard, Arthur). Comrade Yetta. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1913. 
Edwards, Albert (Bullard, Arthur). A Man's World. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1912. 
Ehrlich, Gretel. Heart Mountain. New York: Viking Press, 1988. 
Ellison, Ralph. The Invisible Man. New York: Random House, 1952. 
Endore, Guy. Babouk. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1934. 
England, George Allan. The Air Trust. St. Louis, MO: Phil Wagner, 1915. 
England, George Allan. Darkness and Dawn. Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1914. (Trilogy: The Vacant World, Beyond the Great Oblivion, The After Glow). 
England, George Allan. The Golden Blight. New York: The H.K. Fly Co., 1916. 
Engstrand, Stuart David. The Invaders. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. 
Erdrich, Louise. Love Medicine. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winson, 1984. 
Ethridge, Willie Snow. Mingled Yarn. New York: Macmillan Co., 1938. 

Fante, John. Full of Life. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1988. 
Fante, John. The Wine of Youth. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1985. 
Farrell, James T. Father and Son. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1940. 
Farrell, James T. Judgment Day. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1935. 
Farrell, James T. My Days of Anger. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1943. 
Farrell, James T. No Star Is Lost. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1938. 
Farrell, James T. Studs  Lonigan (Trilogy 1932-1935). New York: The Vanguard Press, 1935. 
Farrell, James T. A World I Never Made. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1936. 
Farrell, James T. The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1934. 
Fast, Howard. The American: A Middle Western Legend. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946. 
Fast, Howard. Citizen Tom Paine. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943. 
Fast, Howard. Clarkton. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1947. 
Fast, Howard. Freedom Road. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1944. 
Fast, Howard. The Last Frontier. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. 
Fast, Howard. My Glorius Brothers. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1948. 
Fast, Howard. The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti: A New England Legend. New York: The Blue Herron Press, Inc. 1953. 
Fast, Howard. The Proud and the Free. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 
Fast, Howard. Silas Timberman. New York: The Blue Herron Press, Inc. 
Fast, Howard. Spartacus. New York: Published by the author, 1951.   
Fast, Howard. The Unvanquished. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1942. 
Faulkner, William. The Hamlet. New York: Random House, 1940. 
Faulkner, William. Light in August. New York: Modern Library, 1932. 
Faulkner, William. The Reivers. New York: Random House, 1962. 
Faulkner, William. Soldier's Pay. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. 
Feinberg, Leslie. Stone Butch Blues: A Novel.  Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1993. 
Foran, Martin A. The Other Side. Washington, D.C.: W.A. Ingham, 1886. 
Frank, Waldo. The Death and Birth of David Markand: An American Story. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. 
Frederic, Harold. The Lawton Girl. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. 
Freeman, Joseph. Never Call Retreat. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1943. 
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins. The Portion of Labor. New York; London: Harper and Bros., 1901. 
Friedman, I.K. The Radical. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1907. 
Friedman, Isaac Kahn. By Bread Alone. New York: McClure Phillips and Co., 1901. 
Fuller, Edward. Complaining Millions of Men. New York: Harper and Bros., 1886. 

Garland, Hamlin. Hesper. New York: Harper and Bros., 1903. 
Garland, Hamlin. Main-Travelled Roads. Boston: Arena Publishing Co., 1891. 
Garrett, Garet. The Cinder Buggy: A Fable in Iron and Steel. New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1923. 
Giardina, Denise. Storming Heaven: A Novel. 1st Ballantine Books ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 1988. 
Giardina, Denise. The Unquiet Earth: A Novel. 1st ed. New York: Norton, 1992. 
Giles, Barbara. The Gentle Bush. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1947. 
Gilfillan, Lauren. I Went to Pit College. New York: Viking Press, 1934. 
Glaspell, Susan. The Visioning. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, 1911. 
Glodek, Geraldine.  Nine Bells at the Breaker: An Immigrant's Story.  The Barn Peg Press, Iowa City, 1998. 
Gold, Herbert. Fathers. New York: Random House, 1967. 
Gold, Michael. Jews without Money. 1st Carroll & Graf ed. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1984. 
Gollomb, Joseph. Unquiet. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1935. 
Graham, Margaret (Grace Lois MacDonald). Swift Shift. New York: Citadel Press, 1951. 
Green, Archie. Calf's Head and Union Tale: Labor Yarns at Work and Play. University of Illinois Press, 1996. Green, Henry. Loving. London: Hagarth Press, 1969. 
Grey, Zane. Desert of Wheat. New York; London: Harper & Bros., 1919. 

H. G. H. (Hannah Elizabeth Bradbury Godwin Talcott). Madge or Night and Morning. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1863. 
Halper, Albert. The Chute. New York: The Viking Press, 1937. 
Halper, Albert. The Foundry. New York: The Viking Press, 1934. 
Halper, Albert. Union Square. New York: The Viking Press, 1933. 
Hamblen, Herbert Elliot. The General Manager's Story: Old-Time Reminiscences of Railroading in the United States. New York: MacMillan Co., 1898. 
Hammett, Dashiell. Red Harvest. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. 
Harrison, Charles Yale. A Child Is Born. New York: Jonathon Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931. 
Harrison, Charles Yale. Generals Die in Bed. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1930. 
Hatcher, Harlan R. Central Standard Time. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1937. 
Havighurst, Walter. Pier 17. New York: Macmillan Co., 1935. 
Hay, John. The Bread-Winners: A Social Study. New York: Harper and Bros., 1884. 
Hebert, Ernest. The Dogs of March. New York: Viking Press, 1979. 
Hedges, Marion Hawthorne. Dan Minturn. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1927. 
Heinlein, Robert A. (Robert Anson). Starman Jones, illustrated by Clifford Geary.  New York: Scribner, 1953. 
Hensen, Michael. Ransack. Cambridge, MA: West End Press, 1980. 
Herbst, Josephine. The Executioner Waits. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1934. 
Herbst, Josephine. Pity is Not Enough. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1933. 
Herbst, Josephine. Rope of Gold. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1939. 
Herrick, Robert. The Web of Life. New York: Macmillan Co., 1900. 
Herrman, John. The Big Short Trip, Scribner's Magazine, ICII (August, 1932), 65-69, 113-128. 
Heym, Stefan. Goldsborough. New York: The Blue Herron Press, Inc. 
Hijuelos, Oscar. The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1993. 
Himes, Chester. Lonely Crusade. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. 
Howells, William Dean. A Hazard of New Fortunes. New York: Harper and Bros., 1890. 
Howells, William Dean. The Rise of Silas Lapham. Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1884. 
Hughes, Langston.  Not without Laughter. 
Hughes, Langston.  The Ways of White Folk. 
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes were Watching God. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1937. 
Hurt, Walter. The Appeal to Reason. Girard, KS, 1907. 
Hurt, Walter. The Scarlet Shadow: A Story of the Great Colorado Conspiracy. Girard, KS, 1907. 

Irving, John. The Cider House Rules. New York: Morrow, 1985. 
Irwin, Theodore. Strange Passage. New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935. 

Jackson, Charles Tenney. My Brother's Keeper. New York: A.L. Burt Co., 1910. 
Jerome, V.J. A Lantern for Jeremy. New York: Masses & Mainstream, 1952. 
Johnson, Charles. Middle Passage. New York: Atheneum, 1990. 
Johnson, Charles. Oxherding Tale. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982. 
Johnson, Josephine W. Jordanstown. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1937. 
Jones, Idwal. Steel Chips. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. 
Jones, James. From Here to Eternity. New York: Scribner, 1951. 
Judd, Sylvester. Richard Edney and the Governor's Family. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co., 1850. 

Kahn, Arthur. Brownstone. New York: Independence Publishers, 1954. 
Kaneko, Josephine Conger. A Little Sister of the Poor. Girard, KS: Progressive Woman Publishing Co., 1909. 
Kauffman, Reginald Wright. The House of Bondage. New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1910. 
Kauffman, Reginald Wright. The Sentence of Silence. New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1912. 
Kennedy, Hugh. Everything Looks Impressive. New York: Doubleday, 1993. 
Kennedy, William. Ironweed. New York: Viking Press, 1983. 
Kerouac, Jack.  On the Road. New York: New American Library, 1957. 
Kerouac, Jack. The Subterraneans. New York: Grove Press, 1989. 
Kerouac, Jack. The Town and the City. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1950. 
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. New York: Viking Press, 1962. 
Kesey, Ken. Sometimes a Great Notion. New York: Bantam Books, 1965. 
Kester, Vaughan. The Manager of the B and A. New York: Harper and Bros., 1901. 
King, Edward. Joseph Zalmonah. Boston: Lee and Sheperd, 1893. 
Kingslover, Barbara. Animal Dreams. New York: Harper & Row, 1990. 
Kingslover, Barbara. The Bean Trees. Harper & Row, 1988. 
Kingslover, Barbara. Pigs In Heaven. New York: Harper Perennial, 1994. 
Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior: Memories of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. New York: Knopf, 1976. 
Kippard, George. New York: Its Upper Ten and Lower Million. Cincinnati: H.M. Rulison, 1853. 
Kromer, Tom. Waiting for Nothing. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. 

Lampell, Millard. The Hero. New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1949. 
Lanham, Edwin. The Stricklands. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1938. 
Lardner, Ring, Jr. The Ecstasy of Owen Muir. London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. 
Larsson, Gősta. Our Daily Bread. New York: Vanguard Press, 1934. 
Lawrence, Lars. Morning, Noon, and Night. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1954. 
Leavitt, John McDowell. Kings of Capital and Knights of Labor for the People. New York: J.S. Willey Publishing Co., 1885. 
Lee, Day Kellogg. Merrimack or Life at the Loom. New York: Redfield, 1854. 
Lee, Day Kellogg. The Master Builder or Life at a Trade. New York: Redfield, 1853. 
Levin, Meyer. Citizens. New York: Viking Press, 1940. 
Levin, Meyer. The New Bridge. New York: Covici-Friede, 1933. 
Levin, Meyer. The Old Bunch. New York: Viking Press, 1937. 
Levy, Melvin. The Last Pioneers. New York: Alfred H. King., 1934. 
Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922. 
Lewis, Sinclair. Main Street. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1920. 
Limon, Graciela. The Memories of Anna Calderon. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1994. 
Linn, Bettina. Flea Circus. New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1936. 
London, Jack. The Call of the Wild. New York; London: MacMillan Co., 1912. 
London, Jack. The Iron Heel. New York: Macmillan Co., 1907. 
London, Jack. Martin Eden. New York: Macmillan, 1908. 
London, Jack. The Sea Wolf. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1904. 
London, Jack. Valley of the Moon. Los Angeles: David Rejl, 1988. 
Louis, Adrian. Skins. New York: Crown Publishers, 1995. 
Loux, Rev. Dubois H. Maitland Varne or The Bells of De Thaumaturge. New York: De Thaumaturge Co., 1911. 
Lumpkin, Grace. A Sign for Cain. New York: Lee Furman, Inc., 1935. 
Lumpkin, Grace. To Make my Bread. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. 

Mailer, Norman. Barbary Shore. New York: Rinehart & Co., Inc., 1951. 
Mailer, Norman. The Naked and the Dead. New York: Rinehart & Co., Inc. 1948. 
Makliel, Theresa Serber. Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker. New York: Co-operative Press, 1910. 
Malamud, Bernard. The Assistant. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1957. 
Malamud, Bernard. The Tenants. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971. 
Maltz, Albert. Season of Celebration, Movelette in The Way Things Are and Other Stories. New York: International Publishers, 1938. 
Maltz, Albert. The Underground Stream. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1940. 
Mamet, David. The Cabin. New York: Vintage Books, 1993. 
Mangione, Jerre. Mount Allegro. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943. 
Marcy, Mary E. Out of the Dump: A Story of Organized Charity. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co., 1909. 
Marlen, George (Spiro, George). The Road: A Romance of the Proletarian Revolution. New York: Red Star Press, 1932. 
Martin, Danny. The Dishwasher. New York: Norton & Co., 1995. 
Martz, Sandra. If I Had a Hammer, Women's Work: In Poetry, Fiction, and Photographs. Watsonville, CA: Papier-Mache Press, 1990. 
Mason, Bobbie Ann. In Country. New York: Harper & Row, 1989. 
Mason, Bobbie Ann. Shiloh and Other Stories. New York: Harper & Row, 1982. 
Mason, Bobbie Ann. Spence and Lila. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. 
Matthews, Cornelius. Big Abel and the Little Manhattan. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. 
McCardell, Roy L. The Wage Slaves of New York. New York: G.W. Dillingham Co., 1899. 
McCowan, Archibald (Luke A. Hedd). Philip Meyer's Scheme: A Story of Trades Unionism. New York: J.S. Ogilvie, 1892. 
McCullers, Carson. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1940. 
McGrady, The Rev. Father Thomas. Beyond the Black Ocean: A Socialist Story. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1901. 
McGrath, Kristina.  House Work: A Novel.  Bridgehampton, NY: Bridge Works Publishing Company, 1994. 
McGrath, Thomas. This Coffin has No Handles, 1st ed. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1988. 
McHenry, Beth and Frederick N. Myers. Home is the Sailor. New York: International Publishers, 1948. 
McIntyre, John T. Ferment. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc., 1937. 
McKenney, Ruth. Jake Home. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1943. 
McLeod, Norman. The Bitter Roots. New York: Smith and Durrell, 1941. 
McMahon, John R. Toilers and Idlers: A Novel. New York: Wilshire Book Co., 1907. 
McMahon, Patrick Justin. Philip or The Mollie's Secret: A Tale of the Coal Regions. Philadelphia: H.L. Kilner and Co., 1891. 
Mendez, Miguel. Pilgrims in Aztlan. Tempe: Bilingual Press, 1992. 
Merwin, Samuel and Henry Kitchell Webster. Calumet "K". New York: Macmillan Co., 1901. 
Meyersburg, Dorothy. Seventh Avenue. New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1941. 
Miner, Valerie. A Walking Fire. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. 
Miner, Valerie. All Good Women. Freedom, California: The Crossing Press, 1987. 
Moore, Ward. Breathe the Air Again, New York; London: Harper & Brothers, 1942. 
Morris, Henry O. Waiting for the Signal. Chicago: Schulte Publishing Co., 1897. 
Morris, Wright. The Field of Vision. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1956. 
Morrison, Toni. Beloved. New York: Knopf, 1987. 
Morrisson, Toni. The Bluest Eye. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971. 
Mosley, Walter. Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned.  New York : W.W. Norton, 1998. 
Motley, Willard. Knock on any Door. New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., Inc., 1947. 
Motley, Willard. We Fished all Night. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1951. 
Myers, Cortland. Would Christ Belong to a Labor Union? or, Henry Fielding's Dream. New York: Street and Smith, 1900. 

Nason, Frank Lewis. The Blue Goose. New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1903. 
Nearing, Scott. Free Born: An Unpublishable Novel. New York: Urquhart Press, 1932. 
Neely, Barbara.  Blanche Among the Talented Tenth.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. 
Nelson, Eugene. Break their Haughty Power. San Francisco: ISM Press, 1993. 
Newhouse, Edward. This is your Day. New York: Lee Furman, Inc. 
Newhouse, Edward. You can't Sleep Here. New York: The Macaulay Co., 1934. 
Nichols, John. The Milagro Beanfield War. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1974. 
Norris, Charles G. Flint. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1944. 
Norris, Frank. McTeague. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page, 1914. 
Norris, Frank. The Octopus. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1901. 

O'Brien, Tim. The Things they Carried. Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1990. 
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