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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by Timothy Egan (2005)
★3.98(53)
Similar to 'Las Uvas de la Ira', this non-fiction account vividly depicts the hardships of the Dust Bowl.
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10 Books Similar to “Las Uvas de la Ira” by John Steinbeck
Las Uvas de la Ira
by John Steinbeck (1939)
★3.92(952 ratings)
Steinbeck’s classic novel of the Great Depression is as vivid now as ever. The story focuses on a family of Oklahoma sharecroppers, farmers who work another man’s land for a share of the crops. Driven from their home by drought and poverty they take to the road in a battered old truck and make their way to California to look for work. When they arrive they find hundreds of others like them being forced to work for breadline wages. they begin working as fruit pickers, strike-breakers replacing the people who have been trying to establish a union but their consciences force them to leave.
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Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck (1937)
★3.81(2.3K)
Like 'Las Uvas de la Ira', this Steinbeck novel explores the struggles of marginalized workers during the Depression.
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Cannery Row
by John Steinbeck (1943)
★4.12(248)
This Steinbeck work, like 'Las Uvas de la Ira', captures the lives and struggles of working-class people.
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Out of the Dust
by Karen Hesse (1987)
★3.43(49)
Echoing 'Las Uvas de la Ira', this YA novel powerfully portrays life in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl.
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Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
by Jerry Stanley (1992)
★4.00(2)
This non-fiction book, much like 'Las Uvas de la Ira', focuses on the migrant worker camps of California.
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