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Oliver Twist by Charles DickensFinding Home by Lauren BakerDon't Breathe a Word by Holly CupalaPoughkeepsie by Debra AnastasiaJuicy by Pepper Pace
Homelessness in Fiction
218 books — 103 voters
Tainted Shadows by Kendrick SimsBreaking Night by Liz MurrayNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichA Street Cat Named Bob by James BowenAlmost Home by Kevin M. Ryan
Homeless
141 books — 54 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
My Life and Times by Emerson Littlefield2005 - Thanks for the Vodka by HarpieKids We Were by Bernie MorrisA Blessed Olive Tree by Zain Hashmi2006 - Thanks for the Vodka by Harpie
Stories Rarely Told
108 books — 34 voters

Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la PeñaThe Table Where Rich People Sit by Byrd BaylorA Chair for My Mother by Vera B. WilliamsThose Shoes by Maribeth BoeltsEach Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson
Picture Books About Poverty & Material Wealth
145 books — 30 voters
Lev by Belle AuroraJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëDream a Little Dream by Susan Elizabeth PhillipsUnperfect by Susie TateHome Game by Odette Stone
Heroine homeless
35 books — 18 voters

The End of the Line by Angela CerritoMy Heart is on the Ground by Ann RinaldiMy Forever Family by Nicky BrookesThe Shoebox Kid by Judith Lawrence OuttenCheeking My Meds by Francis Coco
Kids in the system
76 books — 12 voters
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteMidnight Cowboy by James Leo HerlihyAn Eye For Others by Tom McDonoughCittà in fiamme by Garth Risk HallbergPunk Avenue by Phil Marcade
Rock Bottom in New York
26 books — 11 voters

#SayHerName by Kimberlé CrenshawFracking by Kathryn Hulick#SayHerName by Kimberlé CrenshawUS Immigration and Customs Enforcement by Cynthia Kennedy HenzelViewpoint Diversity by John Tomasi
Special Reports series
46 books — 11 voters
Mayor of the Tenderloin by Alison OwingsRace for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorA World More Concrete by Nathan Daniel Beau ConnollyWhere We Want to Live by Ryan GravelSundown Towns by James W. Loewen
American Housing and Land Use-related (nonfiction)
71 books — 10 voters

Mayor of the Tenderloin by Alison OwingsMoving Out, Moving On by Shelley MallettHomelessness and Social Policy by Roger BurrowsThe Wintringham Story by Elaine FarrellyAt Risk of Homelessness by Karin Ringheim
Homelessness Week
32 books — 8 voters
The False Men by Mhairead MacLeodRemember My Royalty by Hannah E. GriggsA Pistol in Greenyards by Mollie HunterSo Far from Skye by Judith O'NeillClear by Carys Davies
The Highland Clearances
15 books — 7 voters

Authoritarian Drift in the United States by G. Scott GrahamThe Right-Wing Social-Democrats Today by Otto Wille KuusinenPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'AgostinoAlla and the Piano – The Russian Tragedy 1912 to 1924 by Morten KvistgaardThe Collapse of the Weimar Republic by David Abraham
Social Democracy - Capitalism
15 books — 7 voters
Grocery by Michael RuhlmanShampoo Planet by Douglas CouplandAisle Nine by Ian X. ChoThe Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America by Julian MontagueHomecoming by Cynthia Voigt
Shopping Carts
28 books — 6 voters

Mayor of the Tenderloin by Alison OwingsAn Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young... by Debbie ReeseThe People in the Room by A. James RudinThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorBreaking The Bias of English by Vivian R. Probst
Nonfiction Social Justice Books
15 books — 6 voters
Clean Water For Elirose by Ariah FineEvery Human Has Rights by National Geographic KidsA Cool Drink of Water by Barbara KerleyWangari's Trees of Peace by Jeanette WinterOne Well by Rochelle Strauss
Global Issues for Kids
7 books — 4 voters

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamilloWith the Fire on High by Elizabeth AcevedoSomeplace Else by Ben ShecterThe Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann BradenThe Good Dream by Donna VanLiere
lower class kids
39 books — 4 voters
Make Room! Make Room! by Harry HarrisonThe Integrity Gap by Stephen M. Fry Ph.D.A Realistic Path to Peace by Dee KnightParable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler1984 by George Orwell
Fictional Apocalypses: The World's End From Humanity
61 books — 3 voters

A Blind Eye by David Jackson AmbroseThe Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Fiction with dogs as a catalyst to plot
2 books — 2 voters
Manifesto of the Communist Party, and Principles of Communism by Karl MarxThe Collapse of the Weimar Republic by David AbrahamConstitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics by Kremlin, MoscowAnti-Dühring by Friedrich EngelsEconomic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R. by Joseph Stalin
Planned Economies - Socialism
18 books — 2 voters

The Economic Reconstruction of Northeast China by Gao GangThe Collapse of the Weimar Republic by David AbrahamAnother View of Stalin by Ludo MartensManifesto of the Communist Party, and Principles of Communism by Karl MarxThe Tax in Kind by Vladimir Lenin
State Capitalism/Planned Capitalism to Socialism
7 books — 2 voters

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