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Poverty Books
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 322 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.47 — 114,549 ratings — published 2016
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,369,040 ratings — published 2005
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 216 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,704 ratings — published 2001
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 209 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.98 — 117,090 ratings — published 2012
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.27 — 62,511 ratings — published 2023
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.84 — 506,152 ratings — published 2016
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.86 — 113,764 ratings — published 2019
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.47 — 809,178 ratings — published 2022
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 113 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.15 — 659,782 ratings — published 1996
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.03 — 998,502 ratings — published 1939
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,528 ratings — published 2011
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 514,952 ratings — published 1943
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,248 ratings — published 2005
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.09 — 101,912 ratings — published 1933
Free Lunch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.36 — 11,094 ratings — published 2019
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,827 ratings — published 2015
The Benefits of Being an Octopus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.21 — 16,256 ratings — published 2018
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.70 — 19,418 ratings — published 2021
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.05 — 285,450 ratings — published 2007
Maddi's Fridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.53 — 1,949 ratings — published 2014
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,745 ratings — published 2017
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.20 — 14,056 ratings — published 2009
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 998,253 ratings — published 2021
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.49 — 811,830 ratings — published 2016
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 56 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,652,530 ratings — published 2018
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.88 — 429,322 ratings — published 1838
The Working Poor: Invisible in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,736 ratings — published 2004
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,421 ratings — published 1991
Last Stop on Market Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.31 — 18,672 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.62 — 263,224 ratings — published 2014
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 — 16,601 ratings — published 2018
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 51 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 16,120 ratings — published 1991
A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,408 ratings — published 2001
Crenshaw (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.97 — 38,085 ratings — published 2015
Those Shoes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,073 ratings — published 2007
Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.36 — 45,786 ratings — published 2018
Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.58 — 6,084 ratings — published 2014
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.96 — 73,759 ratings — published 2011
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 — 8,008 ratings — published 2007
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,875,765 ratings — published 2018
Trash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.58 — 15,165 ratings — published 2010
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,963,983 ratings — published 2008
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.77 — 25,211 ratings — published 2016
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,016,282 ratings — published 2017
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,262,570 ratings — published 2012
The Other America: Poverty in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,217 ratings — published 1962
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.09 — 63,557 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 — 6,907 ratings — published 2009
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,090,977 ratings — published 1866
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.20 — 88,998 ratings — published 2003
“Ngo Diem was heard to say, “I want a repressive machine controlling the whole of the country of South Vietnam from Saigon to the remotest villages. You shall apply massacres, torture, deportations, and mass imprisonment while conducting constant raids. You shall make the population so fearful of this government that no-one shall ever dare to become a revolutionary or any other kind of outlaw!”
(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
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(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
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“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Angela’s Ashes
― Angela’s Ashes
