The American Dream: A Cultural History by Lawrence R. Samuel

Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity by Yoni Appelbaum

Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It by Richard V. Reeves

Up from Nothing: The Untold Story of How We (All) Succeed by John Hope Bryant; Andrew Young (Foreword by) "Up from Nothing revives the forgotten story of the American Dream. It's about our beginnings as a nation of go-getters who believed they were winners before they won."

Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country by Francesco Duina

Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream by Sara Goldrick-Rab

Reclaiming the American Dream: Restoring the Foundations of the American Dream in the Twenty-First Century by Ben Hecht

Is the American Dream a Myth? by Kate Burns (Editor)

The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz

Inequality in America: Race, Poverty, and Fulfilling Democracy's Promise by Stephen M. Caliendo

Undoing Privilege: Unearned Advantage in a Divided World by Bob Pease

The Meritocracy Myth by Stephen J. McNamee; Robert K. Miller

Our Kids : The American Dream in Crisis by Robert D. Putnam

Chasing the American Dream: Understanding What Shapes Our Fortunes by Mark Robert Rank; Thomas A. Hirschl; Kirk A. Foster

Twilight of the Elites: America after Meritocracy by Christopher Hayes

The Working Class Majority : America's Best Kept Secret by Michael Zweig