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Loved Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance? If its nonfiction, memoir & biography and class struggle hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Becoming, Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class and A Promised Land. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

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