The following study examines two prominent works of Ålandic literature: the novels Katrina and Strandhugg written by the 20th century authors Sally Salminen and Georg Kåhre respectively. Using a content analysis method and a class perspective as the driving theoretical framework, the study aims to answer the following questions: (1) How is class affiliation and class difference portrayed in the novels? (2) To what extent does a class perspective figure in the novels and how is it communicated to the reader? (3) To what extent can the novels be said to reflect Ålandic society during the 1930s? The study finds that the authors differ strikingly in their novels with regards to class perspective, with Kåhre portraying a bourgeois milieu in the city and Salminen a working-class setting in the countryside. Furthermore, the authors intent with their respective novels, regarding class, is markedly different, as Kåhre is not at all interested in commenting on or discussing class affiliation or class difference, while this for Salminen is one of the central aspects of her novel. Salminen’s description of the relationship between the rich landlords and poor tenant framers was a social institution that existed even into to the beginning of the 20th century on Åland. Salminen thus expresses an image that diverges from the previously held notion of Ålandic society as egalitarian and without notable class differences. In Katrina this historical view is problematized, and Kåhre, with his depiction of the bourgeoisie and upper class’s prominent presence on Åland in Strandhugg, also problematizes the view of Ålandic society as highly homogeneous.