Books Like The Wire

Institutional failure, street life, systemic injustice, and deeply human characters.

A group of Noble Dames by Thomas Hardy
Whirligigs by O. Henry
Poems by Rudyard Kipling
Mine own people by Rudyard Kipling
Kingsblood royal by Sinclair Lewis
Goodbye, Columbus and five short stories by Philip Roth
El llano en llamas by Juan Rulfo
Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
Los funerales de la Mamá Grande by Gabriel García Márquez
The city and the pillar by Gore Vidal
On Picket Duty and Other Tales by Louisa May Alcott
Jerry of the Islands by Jack London

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