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Nonfiction works that explore the topics of transients and homeless people, vagabonds and hobos, or any other person that does not live in fixed abode, either by choice or economic circumstances.
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I Grew Up in War Housing: The History of the Defense Housing Projects in East Alton, Illinois: 1941–1954
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Phillip David Walkington (Goodreads Author)
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Robbed of Humanity: Lives of Guatemalan Street Children
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The Lady in the Van
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Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Illness
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3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Homeless Outreach & Housing First: Lessons Learned (Pretreatment: Staff Training & Student Education Book 2)
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Jay S. Levy (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Excluded Americans: Homelessness and Housing Policies
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21st Century Essays on Homelessness
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3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Reckoning with Homelessness
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3.63 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America
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Michelle Kennedy (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 635 ratings
score: 39,
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Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America
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4.05 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Invisible Nation: Homeless Families in America
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3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Down and Out, on the Road: The Homeless in American History
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3.73 avg rating — 41 ratings
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My Way Home: Growing Up Homeless in America
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Michael Gaulden (Goodreads Author)
4.58 avg rating — 120 ratings
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The Dispossessed: Homeless in America
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George Grant (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Only If they Could Hear Me Cry: A Personal Reflection of Poverty and Homelessness In America
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Raymond Sturgis (Goodreads Author)
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Gimme Shelter: A Social History of Homelessness in Contemporary America
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Homelessness in America Today
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2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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No Fixed Abode: A Journey Through Homelessness from Cornwall to London
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Charlie Carroll (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 255 ratings
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Homelessness in Society (Issues Today, #42)
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Lisa Firth (Author/Editor)
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The Homeless Population (Issues Series, #189)
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Lisa Firth (Author/Editor)
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Talk About Homelessness
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Otherwise Homeless: Vehicle Living and the Culture of Homelessness
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At Home on the Street: People, Poverty, and a Hidden Culture of Homelessness
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3.68 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Better Times Than This: Youth Homelessness in Britain
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Homelessness and Allocations
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No Fixed Abode: Life and Death Among the UK's Forgotten Homeless
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4.41 avg rating — 203 ratings
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My Orange Duffel Bag: A Journey to Radical Change
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3.85 avg rating — 433 ratings
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Mind on Fire
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4.18 avg rating — 534 ratings
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Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League
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4.04 avg rating — 1,472 ratings
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Driven: From Homeless to Hero, My Journeys On and Off Lambeau Field
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4.12 avg rating — 1,447 ratings
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Breakfast at Sally's: One Homeless Man's Inspirational Journey
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4.07 avg rating — 1,998 ratings
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Strays: A Lost Cat, a Homeless Man, and Their Journey Across America
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Britt Collins (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 1,077 ratings
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Being and Homelessness: Notes from an Underground Artist
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John H. Sibley (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Catching Homelessness: A Nurse's Story of Falling Through the Safety Net
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Josephine Ensign (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Welcome Homeless: One Man's Journey of Discovering the Meaning of Home
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4.25 avg rating — 383 ratings
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God's Calling: How a Cheap Cell Phone and a Homeless Teen Transformed My Life and My Faith
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Lynn Cameron (Goodreads Author)
3.38 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Concrete Killing Fields
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Pat Morgan (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco
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4.21 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Homeless in Hawaii
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E.C. Stilson (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Homeless, In My Own Words: True Stories of Homeless Mothers
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Gail Lukasik (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 24 ratings
score: 8,
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Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America
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4.01 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Four Feet Under: Thirty Untold Stories of Homelessness in London
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4.45 avg rating — 221 ratings
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Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha
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3.74 avg rating — 395 ratings
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list created October 7th, 2018
by Ben Aultowski (votes) .
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homeless, nonfiction, poverty, rubber-tramps, streets, transient, underclass, underground, vagabonds, vandwellers, vanlife
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