- The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs
- Dreams from My Father: A Memoir of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
- Coal Miner's Daughter by Loretta Lynn
- The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
- Son of a Gun: A Memoir by Justin St. Germain
- Townie: A Memoir by Andre Dubus III
And by The Booklist Reader reviewer Karen Kleckner Keefe in her article Pride and Poverty: Beyond Hillbilly Elegy:
- All Over But the Shoutin‘ by Rick Bragg
- Belonging: A Culture of Place by bel hooks
- Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.—How the Working Poor Became Big Business by Gary Rivlin
- Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 by Charles Murray
- Creeker: A Woman’s Journey by Linda Scott DeRosier
- Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War by Joe Bageant
- The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America by Linda Tirado
- Invisible in Austin: Life and Labor in an American City by Javier Auyero
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee
- The Liars’ Club by Mary Karr
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in Boom-Time America by Barbara Ehrenreich
- No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home by Chris Offutt
- Poor People by William T. Vollmann
- Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
- Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia by Dennis Covington
- $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer
- White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
- The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler
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