What are some good books that deal with poverty or the seedier side of living? I already know the obvious "Down and Out in Paris and London" by Orwell and "Last Exit to Brooklyn" by Selby (and I'm probably forgetting other obvious entries by they aren't coming to mind right now).
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Anonymous2009-01-08 15:23
Probably not what you're looking for, but you might try Dostoevsky's "Notes from Underground"
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Anonymous2009-01-10 18:55
The correct answer is more Hubert Selby Jr.
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Anonymous2009-01-10 19:25
Stone cold by Robert Swindells.
I kid, It just happens to be the only one I ever read about poverty (the guy was homeless) outside of cyberpunk/post apocalyptica novels
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Anonymous2009-01-10 20:31
Junky by William S. Burroughs is what you are looking for
If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes doesn't really deal with poverty, but for some reason it does remind me of the "Strike" story from Last Exit to Brooklyn if you replaced all the gay with racism.
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Anonymous2009-01-19 22:13
Native Son by Richard Wright. It's somewhat about race, but it seems to me to be more about poor people against rich people.
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Anonymous2009-01-26 19:26
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
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Anonymous2009-01-29 14:00
The Basketball Diaries god motherfucking damn it.
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Anonymous2009-01-31 2:43
Selby Jr, Bukowski, Henry Miller
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Anonymous2009-02-17 18:46
John Steinbeck?
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Anonymous2009-02-18 18:41
it's for younger audiences, but maniac magee is a good one
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Anonymous2009-02-19 2:04
Something a little more mainstream would be The Street Lawyer by John Grisham.
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Anonymous2009-02-19 6:00
I really hate it how these days, tons of women stay single all their lives because they refuse to accept a "lesser" male. However, the fact that the males they drool over didn't choose them makes them "lesser" females too. But they prefer to be hypocrites and think they are special and deserve more than what they are worth.
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Anonymous2009-02-20 1:15
grapes of wrath
crime and punishment
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Anonymous2009-02-20 3:58
Charlotte's Web
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Anonymous2009-02-27 4:41
Because I don't feel like this deserves another thread, any good books about drug addicts would also be greatly appreciated. Outside of what has been mentioned in this thread.