Looking for books that center around slums, street criminals,

>>8617460
2666

**have read, damn.

>>8617466
No meme books please.

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>>8617460
This and Dickens
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174374.You_Can_t_Win

>>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

>>8617483
then amulet

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

>>8617460
the city and the dogs

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

Oliver Twist

Dickens in general

>>8617460

communist shitterfesto

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>>8617460
Try Zola, The Beast in Man.

>>8617730
All of the Rougon Macquart, really

malcolm x's autobiography

Dickens is a hack, prove me wrong.

PROTIP: You can't

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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.

>>8617885
L'assommoir particularly

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

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

>>8617460
Crime and Punishment

>>8617460
Last Exit To Brooklyn
The Room

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

>>8617460
junky
william s burroughs

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

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

Michael mcdowell, katie or gilded needles

Gorky's The Lower Depths

A Scanner Darkly maybe

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I liked this book.