Poverty


Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief
Poverty, by America
Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
The White Hot
This Is Where the Serpent Lives
The Second Life of Snap
Sisi Tergelap Surga
The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman
And Then, Boom!
Benbecula
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Pizza Face: A Graphic Novel (Four Eyes, #2)
Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Glass Castle
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Poverty, by America
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Demon Copperhead
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
The Grapes of Wrath
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Down and Out in Paris and London
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
Free Lunch
The Irresistible Revolution by Shane ClaiborneSex, Economy, Freedom, and Community by Wendell BerryCommon Prayer by Shane ClaiborneLet Justice Roll Down by John M. PerkinsNew Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton
Books for Ordinary Radicals
72 books — 54 voters
Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K.  RitzA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboOne Dark Window by Rachel GilligThe Butcher of the Forest by Premee MohamedWicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan
Anything You Really Liked
2,747 books — 1,225 voters

Annihilation of Caste by B.R. AmbedkarHating Self by Boo BlackWho were the Shudras? by B.R. AmbedkarThe Buddha and his Dhamma by Aakash Singh RathoreCastes in India by B.R. Ambedkar
Ambedkar
98 books — 13 voters
Can't Get There from Here by Todd StrasserPaper Things by Jennifer Richard JacobsonWhere I Live by Brenda RufenerHold Fast by Blue BalliettRunaway by Wendelin Van Draanen
Homelessness in Children's Fiction
116 books — 41 voters


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Khaled Hosseini
That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping he ...more
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

W.E.B. Du Bois
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.
W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk

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