New Social Realism?

Hi there!

I have been reading a lot of contemporary novels lately that are dealing with social class and are written in a raw, gritty, kind of realist style. Here are some examples:

• "Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver
• "Shuggie Bain" and "Young Mungo" by Douglas Stuart
• "Ein Mann seiner Klasse" (A Man of His Class) by Christian Baron
• basically everything by Annie Ernaux
• basically everything by Édouard Louis
• "Retour à Reims" (Return to Reims) by Didier Éribon

My questions to you are:

1. Do you have the impression that there has been something like a new social realist movement in literature over the past couple of years?
2. Do you have any more examples of this – preferably by women, lgbtq, bipoc authors, also in other languages than English?

I'd be really curious to learn if I'm just reading very selectively or of it's kind of a thing, also internationally.

Edit: added further novels to the list that came to mind