The Hardscrabble Life

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The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath 4.02 avg rating — 971,538 ratings
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Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 650,940 ratings
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The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 257,764 ratings
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Tobacco Road
Tobacco Road 3.71 avg rating — 15,711 ratings
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Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men 3.89 avg rating — 2,751,762 ratings
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The Road
The Road really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,001,614 ratings
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Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist 3.88 avg rating — 419,615 ratings
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Les Misérables
Les Misérables 4.21 avg rating — 830,189 ratings
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 3.98 avg rating — 122,124 ratings
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The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle 4.32 avg rating — 1,325,546 ratings
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The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,148 ratings
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tess of the D’Urbervilles 3.84 avg rating — 297,793 ratings
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Hunger
Hunger 4.04 avg rating — 62,396 ratings
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Roots: The Saga of an American Family 4.45 avg rating — 163,543 ratings
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Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind 4.31 avg rating — 1,257,992 ratings
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Before Familiar Woods
Before Familiar Woods 3.70 avg rating — 1,837 ratings
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl―A National Book Award Winner
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl―A National Book Award Winner 4.06 avg rating — 60,119 ratings
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A Fine Balance
A Fine Balance 4.38 avg rating — 156,843 ratings
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The Pearl
The Pearl 3.56 avg rating — 261,784 ratings
20.
Hard Times
Hard Times 3.55 avg rating — 72,191 ratings
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity 3.98 avg rating — 114,811 ratings
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 4.07 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Winter's Bone
Winter's Bone 3.86 avg rating — 38,154 ratings
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The Snow Child
The Snow Child 4.01 avg rating — 166,396 ratings
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The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845 - 1849
The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845 - 1849 4.18 avg rating — 1,246 ratings
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Germinal
Germinal 4.20 avg rating — 41,609 ratings
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The Beans of Egypt, Maine
The Beans of Egypt, Maine 3.58 avg rating — 3,821 ratings
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A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities 3.88 avg rating — 996,386 ratings
29.
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 3.75 avg rating — 23,936 ratings
30.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 911,904 ratings
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A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire 3.98 avg rating — 328,869 ratings
32.
Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend 4.09 avg rating — 30,886 ratings
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Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 49,354 ratings
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men 3.97 avg rating — 3,971 ratings
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Ethan Frome
Ethan Frome 3.45 avg rating — 134,928 ratings
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Old Yeller
Old Yeller 4.10 avg rating — 102,361 ratings
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Ham on Rye
Ham on Rye 4.14 avg rating — 115,658 ratings
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Push
Push
by: Sapphire
3.87 avg rating — 58,127 ratings
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Bastard Out of Carolina
Bastard Out of Carolina 4.14 avg rating — 46,996 ratings
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Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3)
Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3) 4.10 avg rating — 38,230 ratings
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Alas, Babylon
Alas, Babylon
by: Pat Frank
4.09 avg rating — 47,857 ratings
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The Tortilla Curtain
The Tortilla Curtain 3.66 avg rating — 34,021 ratings
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A Star Called Henry (The Last Roundup, #1)
A Star Called Henry (The Last Roundup, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 10,105 ratings
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The Book of Job (Bible, #18)
The Book of Job (Bible, #18)
by: Anonymous
4.20 avg rating — 4,493 ratings
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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing 3.42 avg rating — 10,422 ratings
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1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,225,775 ratings
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Salvage the Bones
Salvage the Bones 3.96 avg rating — 71,433 ratings
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Down and Out in Paris and London
Down and Out in Paris and London 4.09 avg rating — 97,501 ratings
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A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun 3.85 avg rating — 107,555 ratings
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Twopence to Cross the Mersey
Twopence to Cross the Mersey 4.25 avg rating — 2,169 ratings
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The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding 4.09 avg rating — 10,199 ratings
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The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to The Grapes of Wrath
The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to The Grapes of Wrath 3.94 avg rating — 1,495 ratings
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Ironweed
Ironweed 3.87 avg rating — 17,431 ratings
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Post Office
Post Office 3.93 avg rating — 135,712 ratings
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman 4.18 avg rating — 14,105 ratings
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The Condition of the Working Class in England
The Condition of the Working Class in England 4.03 avg rating — 3,605 ratings
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The Irish Famine
The Irish Famine 3.73 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Mother Ireland: A Memoir
Mother Ireland: A Memoir 3.61 avg rating — 330 ratings
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Famine
Famine 4.05 avg rating — 522 ratings
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Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly
Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly 3.92 avg rating — 239,351 ratings
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Alias Grace
Alias Grace 4.04 avg rating — 153,254 ratings
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Poor Folk
Poor Folk 3.77 avg rating — 36,773 ratings
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 3,378,282 ratings
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The City of Joy
The City of Joy 4.26 avg rating — 8,085 ratings
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Off Grid
Off Grid
by: Backwoods
3.52 avg rating — 23 ratings
65.
The Fig Orchard
The Fig Orchard 4.14 avg rating — 353 ratings
65.
A Tree Born Crooked
A Tree Born Crooked 3.91 avg rating — 222 ratings
68.
The Emigrants (The Emigrants, #1)
The Emigrants (The Emigrants, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 9,423 ratings
68.
The Road to Wigan Pier
The Road to Wigan Pier 3.91 avg rating — 27,347 ratings
68.
American Owned Love
American Owned Love 3.70 avg rating — 60 ratings
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less 3.92 avg rating — 15,513 ratings
68.
Siddhartha
Siddhartha 4.08 avg rating — 846,812 ratings
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Rednecks
Rednecks 3.83 avg rating — 2,516 ratings
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Independent People
Independent People 4.13 avg rating — 13,794 ratings
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Dark Places
Dark Places 3.94 avg rating — 816,019 ratings
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Call It Sleep
Call It Sleep 3.81 avg rating — 8,878 ratings
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The Talk-Funny Girl
The Talk-Funny Girl 4.13 avg rating — 3,052 ratings
78.
Galway Bay (Of Irish Blood #1)
Galway Bay (Of Irish Blood #1) 4.16 avg rating — 5,032 ratings
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Cold Mountain
Cold Mountain 3.89 avg rating — 248,105 ratings
80.
Girl in Translation
Girl in Translation
by: Jean Kwok
3.99 avg rating — 58,175 ratings
80.
Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier
Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier 4.03 avg rating — 1,361 ratings
82.
The Good Brother
The Good Brother 3.84 avg rating — 563 ratings
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Cavedweller
Cavedweller 3.74 avg rating — 4,310 ratings
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Holes (Holes, #1)
Holes (Holes, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 1,332,917 ratings
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Bound for Glory
Bound for Glory 4.14 avg rating — 5,965 ratings
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My Drowning
My Drowning 3.78 avg rating — 433 ratings
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The Yearling
The Yearling 4.03 avg rating — 30,132 ratings
88.
Sal Si Puedes (Escape If You Can): Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution
Sal Si Puedes (Escape If You Can): Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution 3.99 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Mary Barton
Mary Barton 3.74 avg rating — 21,060 ratings
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The Children's Blizzard
The Children's Blizzard 3.89 avg rating — 12,892 ratings
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12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave 4.22 avg rating — 123,125 ratings
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Showdown: A Novel
Showdown: A Novel 4.02 avg rating — 595 ratings
93.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,763 ratings
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Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 439,402 ratings
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On the Road
On the Road 3.61 avg rating — 438,488 ratings
96.
Orchard Hill: A Personal Appalachian Triumph
Orchard Hill: A Personal Appalachian Triumph 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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North and South
North and South 4.15 avg rating — 179,577 ratings
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Morgan's Run
Morgan's Run 4.02 avg rating — 5,805 ratings
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Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe 3.68 avg rating — 324,957 ratings
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Hunger in America
Hunger in America 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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