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Looking for books that center around slums, street criminals, the impoverished, riff raff, hooligans, degenerates, and all the cast-offs of society. Also farmers and migrant workers though I have rest most of Steinbeck.

>> No.8617466

>>8617460
2666

>> No.8617483

**have read, damn.

>>8617466
No meme books please.

>> No.8617504
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>>8617460
This and Dickens
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174374.You_Can_t_Win

>> No.8617522

>>8617460
London Characters and Crooks by Henry Mayhew

also the Sherlock Holmes stories, A Clockwork Orange is definitely about hooligans and degenerates, quite a lot of Thomas Hardy, etc etc

>> No.8617525

>>8617483
then amulet

>> No.8617609

>>8617460
Man on Pink Corner, Borges
Aurora, Diaz

>> No.8617690

>>8617460
the city and the dogs

>> No.8617702

>>8617460
Iceberg Slim's Pimp
William Burrough's Junky
Henry Miller's Opus Pistorum

>> No.8617709

Oliver Twist

Dickens in general

>> No.8617719

>>8617460

communist shitterfesto

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>>8617460
Try Zola, The Beast in Man.

>> No.8617885

>>8617730
All of the Rougon Macquart, really

>> No.8617902

malcolm x's autobiography

>> No.8617924

Dickens is a hack, prove me wrong.

PROTIP: You can't

>> No.8617961
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Hijo de ladrón (Son of thief (as in the emphasis in the thief as a figure complementary to the son and not viceversa)) from Manuel Rojas.
The whole tetralogy revolves around the same feel and context, so you should check it out too.

>> No.8617978

>>8617885
L'assommoir particularly

>>8617460
Anything by Celine. Journey to the End of the Night, Death on Credit etc.

>> No.8617987

>>8617924
Of course you can't be proven wrong, you haven't made any testable claim

>> No.8618013

>>8617460
Crime and Punishment

>> No.8618232

>>8617460
Last Exit To Brooklyn
The Room

generally anything by Selby. can't believe nobody has mentioned him yet

>> No.8618250

>>8617460
junky
william s burroughs

>> No.8618373

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is an absolute must for you.

>> No.8619228

>>8617460
Maggie: A Girl Of The Streets by Stephen Crane

>> No.8619246

Michael mcdowell, katie or gilded needles

>> No.8619269

Gorky's The Lower Depths

>> No.8619276

A Scanner Darkly maybe

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I liked this book.