Middle class
Featured — award winners and classics first, when available. Use “Show different books” for a new selection.
🔄 Show different books
After Chartism
The crisis of the middle class
Leisure settings
The precariously privileged
Black Bourgeoisie
An American family
Sentimental collaborations
Reading up
Family, love, and work in the lives of Victorian gentlewomen
Japan's new middle class
The Monied Metropolis
La distinction
The multiplex in India
One nation, after all
Fingerprinting popular culture
Pinched
The good life
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Economic Rationalism in Canberra
Unmarried heterosexual cohabitation
Jakarta Undercover
Histoire de la grandeur et de la décadence de César Birotteau
Middle American individualism
Disorderly conduct
The Populist Vision
In an age of experts
The Indian middle classes
Bourgeois dignity
The Big Squeeze
Is Bill Cosby Right?
Browse free books to read online
Book Explorer lets readers browse the free, readable part of the Open Library catalogue by familiar genres, or by the exact subject tags Open Library assigns each book. Every book has its own page with a reader where one is available, plus links to Open Library, your library, Libby and Amazon.
Fiction
- All Fiction
- Literary Fiction
- Children's Fiction
- Mystery & Detective
- Romance
- Fantasy
- Thriller & Suspense
- Historical Fiction
- Science Fiction
- Graphic Novels & Comics
- Humor
- Short Stories
- Horror
- Young Adult Fiction
- Western
Non-fiction
- All Non-fiction
- History
- Biography & Memoir
- Religion & Spirituality
- Politics & Social Sciences
- Travel
- Philosophy
- Business & Economics
- Science
- Art & Photography
- Cooking
- Self-Help
- Music
- Health & Fitness
- Sports & Recreation
- Humor
- True Crime