Contemporary novel where main character isn't middle class

[antimatter]

Sorry for the title but having started 4th book in a row with main character being middle class, white, very well educated....

It made me thinking - haven't read for a while (until yesterday when started from recommendation on another thread Flowers for Algernon which is also classed as SF and published in 1959) a contemporary novel where there were a non-middle class main characters.

Please suggest some great books I can choose in that category.

[Sprinkfest]

Heading out just now and not trying to be flip, but this has Google written all over it...

[antimatter]

Google is not that sophisticated....
How would you look for it?
Anyway - I am looking for recommendations as well.

But if anyone could suggest a list on Goodreads or some article anywhere I would be happy to use it as well.

[cdtaylornats]

Trainspotting

[CoffeeBucks]

Me Before You, Jojo Moyes

[MarianneSolong]

Mick Scully's 'The Norway Room.'

[BOFster]

I read The Girl Who Just Appeared by Jonathan Harvey (lead Corrie writer, among other things) recently. It was pretty good.

[SunshineBossaNova]

Pigeon English.

[antimatter]

I read "Me Before You" - loved it, IMHO the second main character is as middle-class as it gets
I have Pigeon English on my pile and Trainspotting too.
Please keep them coming!

[Pointlessfan]

Brick Lane?
I'm also thinking of White Teeth but I read that years ago so I might be remembering wrong.
What about memoirs? E.g. Angela's Ashes.

[Theas18]

the No 1 ladies detective agency series! Anything not set in the UK LOL

Currently reading the 100yr old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared which is laugh out loud funny but also a brilliant story interspersed with the back story of a gent whole lived through all the major events of the 20th century and seemed to have a hand in most of them!

[antimatter]

I read Brick Lane and loved it.
I couldn't get into White Teeth, honestly! I tried 3 times and just got bored
yes to Angela's ashes - I only watched film based on it (not contemporary though but I've heard is very good)

[TheWordFactory]

NW by Zadie Smith. Working class girl questions whether you can ever become middle class (among other story lines).

[BOFster]

I'm reading a brilliant memoir today by Tim Brannigan, called Where Are You Really From?. Definitely not middle class.

[Suttonmum1]

A short history of tractors in Ukranian
About poorly paid migrants from Eastern Europe doing agricultural work, if I remember rightly. Much better than that sounds!

[WestEast]

The Help

[BeCool]

Any of the Jo Nesbo books? Harry Hole doesn't come across as middle class (Norwegian).

Have you read the Alan Cummings book? I don't know what class he is ...

[SunnyBaudelaire]

The Book of Dave by Will Self

[BreakingDad77]

The Dog Catcher by Alexi Sayle

The Abarat books, Coldheart Canyon, Gallille, Weaveworld Everville of Clive Barker (yes are a fan lol)

[BertieBotts]

Isn't that Two Caravans Suttonmum? I enjoyed that though, good book.

[BeCool]

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
bit gruesome ....

[Pointlessfan]

Ooh I really enjoyed The Help, I'd like to reread that.
What about The Kite Runner or any else by Khaled Hussein. Brilliant books imo.

[Pointlessfan]

Think my predictive text got author's name wrong, sorry!

[Allalonenow]

Once in a House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth and most of Roddy Doyle's work.

[LadyWellian]

Anything (well, I haven't read a couple of the more recent ones, but anything pre-2000 or so, certainly) by Roddy Doyle.

[Pointlessfan]

Small Island by Andrea Levy. Sorry I keep posting, I keep thinking of more!