11. Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest a nameless detective comes to "Poisonville" and is drawn into a web of corruption, crime, and cover-ups as he sets out to bring a kind of justice to the city. definitely one of the best mysteries I've read, esp. for its interest in social/economic context.

12. H. Josephine Giles, Deep Wheel Orcadia a sci-fi verse novel about labor, class, resource extraction, and peripherality, in Orcadian Scots with English intertonguings à la Rody Gorman (although less thorough than Gorman's). I desperately want to teach this at some point.