The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair (Another AP Lit book)
Even though the book gets off to, IMO, a rocky start, it's really good. It follows the struggle of a Lithuanian family in Chiacgo's Packingtown (meat packing city type thing) in 1906. It's very good, albiet rather... vivid in its description of the way the sausage was made before the meat industry was regulated. (I swear, I'm never eatin sausage ever again, Pure Food and Drug Act or no. Not that I ate that much sausage to begin with.
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