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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 322 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,297 ratings — published 2016
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 269 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,409,437 ratings — published 2005
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 216 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,825 ratings — published 2001
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 215 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,314 ratings — published 2012
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 185 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.27 — 67,069 ratings — published 2023
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.83 — 514,806 ratings — published 2016
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.46 — 901,083 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 — 116,398 ratings — published 2019
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 115 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.16 — 668,908 ratings — published 1996
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,026,739 ratings — published 1939
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.27 — 25,154 ratings — published 2011
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.31 — 532,801 ratings — published 1943
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.09 — 106,225 ratings — published 1933
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,295 ratings — published 2005
Free Lunch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.36 — 11,710 ratings — published 2019
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,969 ratings — published 2015
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.70 — 20,309 ratings — published 2021
The Benefits of Being an Octopus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.21 — 16,676 ratings — published 2018
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.05 — 288,744 ratings — published 2007
Maddi's Fridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.53 — 2,000 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 — 14,221 ratings — published 2009
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.02 — 51,594 ratings — published 2017
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.88 — 437,515 ratings — published 1838
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,091,683 ratings — published 2021
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.48 — 846,369 ratings — published 2016
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 58 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,789,827 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 — 10,500 ratings — published 1991
The Working Poor: Invisible in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,767 ratings — published 2004
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.62 — 271,965 ratings — published 2014
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.96 — 76,102 ratings — published 2011
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 53 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 16,346 ratings — published 1991
Last Stop on Market Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.31 — 19,038 ratings — published 2015
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 — 16,917 ratings — published 2018
A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,466 ratings — published 2001
Crenshaw (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.97 — 39,125 ratings — published 2015
Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.35 — 47,758 ratings — published 2018
Those Shoes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,119 ratings — published 2007
Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.58 — 6,124 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 — 8,070 ratings — published 2007
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,970,570 ratings — published 2018
Trash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.57 — 15,537 ratings — published 2010
The Other America: Poverty in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,239 ratings — published 1962
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 206,054 ratings — published 2020
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,042,548 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 — 25,737 ratings — published 2016
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,281,446 ratings — published 2012
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,130 ratings — published 2012
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,037 ratings — published 2009
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,268,399 ratings — published 2008
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.31 — 296,132 ratings — published 2025
“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
“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.”
― The Souls of Black Folk
― The Souls of Black Folk
