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Poverty Books
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 320 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,434 ratings — published 2016
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 264 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,356,582 ratings — published 2005
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 213 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,386 ratings — published 2001
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.98 — 116,550 ratings — published 2012
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.27 — 60,945 ratings — published 2023
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.84 — 502,510 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 — 112,909 ratings — published 2019
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.47 — 781,473 ratings — published 2022
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 114 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.15 — 657,366 ratings — published 1996
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.03 — 991,099 ratings — published 1939
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,337 ratings — published 2011
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 510,692 ratings — published 1943
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.09 — 100,711 ratings — published 1933
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,242 ratings — published 2005
Free Lunch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,935 ratings — published 2019
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,780 ratings — published 2015
The Benefits of Being an Octopus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.21 — 16,135 ratings — published 2018
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.06 — 284,510 ratings — published 2007
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.70 — 19,195 ratings — published 2021
Maddi's Fridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.53 — 1,930 ratings — published 2014
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,523 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 — 14,016 ratings — published 2009
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 968,537 ratings — published 2021
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.49 — 802,180 ratings — published 2016
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 55 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,599,304 ratings — published 2018
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.88 — 426,701 ratings — published 1838
The Working Poor: Invisible in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,731 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 — 10,398 ratings — published 1991
Last Stop on Market Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 18,567 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.62 — 260,718 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 — 16,518 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 — 16,071 ratings — published 1991
A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,389 ratings — published 2001
Those Shoes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,059 ratings — published 2007
Crenshaw (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.97 — 37,817 ratings — published 2015
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.96 — 73,201 ratings — published 2011
Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.36 — 45,270 ratings — published 2018
Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.58 — 6,071 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 — 7,991 ratings — published 2007
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,846,567 ratings — published 2018
Trash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.58 — 15,067 ratings — published 2010
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.77 — 25,033 ratings — published 2016
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,853,990 ratings — published 2008
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,256,227 ratings — published 2012
The Other America: Poverty in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,214 ratings — published 1962
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,072,462 ratings — published 1866
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,007,468 ratings — published 2017
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 — 88,603 ratings — published 2003
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.09 — 62,507 ratings — published 2012
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,852 ratings — published 2009
“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
― Voyage of the Beagle
― Voyage of the Beagle
“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Angela’s Ashes
― Angela’s Ashes
