Poor


The Glass Castle
The Rainmaker
The Prince and the Pauper
Our Mutual Friend
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Midnight’s Children
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Ethan Frome and Selected Stories
Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. - How the Working Poor Became Big Business
A Life with the Poor
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
The Selection (The Selection, #1)
Paper Princess (The Royals, #1)
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset MaughamCaptains Courageous by Rudyard KiplingStreaking for Mother by Mark ShearmanTouching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
Loss of things/rags to riches
9 books — 4 voters
Khairlanji by Anand TeltumbdeHaunted by Fire by Mythily SivaramanComing Out as Dalit by Yashica DuttSpotted Goddesses by Roja SinghVenomous Touch by Ravikumar
Dalit Nonfiction
93 books — 4 voters

Red Queen by Victoria AveyardThe Selection by Kiera CassGlass Sword by Victoria AveyardThe Elite by Kiera CassFrostfire by Amanda Hocking
YA Fantasy Romance & Royals
40 books — 19 voters
The Little Matchgirl by Miles Kelly PublishingNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichThe Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler WarnerThe Mole People by Jennifer TothA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Poverty In Fact And Fiction
96 books — 5 voters

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John Green
One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.
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