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Poverty Books
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 321 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,523 ratings — published 2016
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,388,663 ratings — published 2005
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 216 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,330 ratings — published 2001
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 212 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.98 — 118,322 ratings — published 2012
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 181 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.27 — 65,198 ratings — published 2023
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.83 — 510,445 ratings — published 2016
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.46 — 854,675 ratings — published 2022
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.86 — 115,132 ratings — published 2019
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 115 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.16 — 663,693 ratings — published 1996
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,011,596 ratings — published 1939
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,861 ratings — published 2011
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 523,491 ratings — published 1943
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.09 — 104,007 ratings — published 1933
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,274 ratings — published 2005
Free Lunch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.36 — 11,422 ratings — published 2019
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,923 ratings — published 2015
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.70 — 19,871 ratings — published 2021
The Benefits of Being an Octopus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.21 — 16,490 ratings — published 2018
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.05 — 287,285 ratings — published 2007
Maddi's Fridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.53 — 1,983 ratings — published 2014
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.20 — 14,144 ratings — published 2009
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.02 — 51,188 ratings — published 2017
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,046,151 ratings — published 2021
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.88 — 433,474 ratings — published 1838
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.49 — 828,216 ratings — published 2016
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 56 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,719,471 ratings — published 2018
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,457 ratings — published 1991
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.62 — 268,020 ratings — published 2014
The Working Poor: Invisible in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,755 ratings — published 2004
Last Stop on Market Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.31 — 18,902 ratings — published 2015
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 52 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 16,251 ratings — published 1991
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,781 ratings — published 2018
A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,441 ratings — published 2001
Crenshaw (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.97 — 38,642 ratings — published 2015
Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
by (shelved 49 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.36 — 46,859 ratings — published 2018
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.96 — 74,977 ratings — published 2011
Those Shoes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,099 ratings — published 2007
Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.58 — 6,101 ratings — published 2014
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,029 ratings — published 2007
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,921,844 ratings — published 2018
Trash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.57 — 15,331 ratings — published 2010
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,112,741 ratings — published 2008
The Other America: Poverty in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,226 ratings — published 1962
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,029,418 ratings — published 2017
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.77 — 25,515 ratings — published 2016
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,271,760 ratings — published 2012
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.08 — 65,352 ratings — published 2012
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,953 ratings — published 2009
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.38 — 162,415 ratings — published 1995
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,121,171 ratings — published 1866
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
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“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 helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
