Books Like The Jungle by Upton Sinclair | Suggesting Reading

The Jungle What Do I Read Next?

In 1962, a few years before his death, Sinclair published his view of his long life and many accomplishments in The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair (Harcourt, Brace). While The Jungle and the social changes that resulted from it are clearly the most notable accomplishments in his life, his life was filled with other publications and deeds that make it notable, including the founding of the American Civil Liberties Union and breaking the Rockefeller oil trust with his novel Oil!.

Leon Harris’ biography Upton Sinclair: American Rebel, published in 1975 by Thomas Y. Crowell Company, is a thorough picture of the author’s life. It paints a generally positive picture of the author’s life, a picture that his critics might find a little too rosy.

Theodore Dreiser’s book Sister Carrie was published a few years earlier than The Jungle, in 1900. It shocked readers of the day with its...
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