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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 — 115,641 ratings — published 2016
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,379,825 ratings — published 2005
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 217 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,050 ratings — published 2001
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 210 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.98 — 117,786 ratings — published 2012
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.27 — 63,972 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 — 508,750 ratings — published 2016
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.46 — 834,174 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 — 114,537 ratings — published 2019
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 115 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.15 — 661,934 ratings — published 1996
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,005,511 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 — 24,693 ratings — published 2011
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 519,476 ratings — published 1943
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,260 ratings — published 2005
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.09 — 103,093 ratings — published 1933
Free Lunch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.36 — 11,273 ratings — published 2019
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,888 ratings — published 2015
The Benefits of Being an Octopus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.21 — 16,385 ratings — published 2018
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.70 — 19,655 ratings — published 2021
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.05 — 286,464 ratings — published 2007
Maddi's Fridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.53 — 1,976 ratings — published 2014
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,982 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 — 14,102 ratings — published 2009
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,025,640 ratings — published 2021
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.88 — 431,684 ratings — published 1838
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.49 — 820,793 ratings — published 2016
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 56 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,690,640 ratings — published 2018
The Working Poor: Invisible in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,750 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 — 10,440 ratings — published 1991
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.62 — 265,978 ratings — published 2014
Last Stop on Market Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.31 — 18,824 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 — 16,702 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 — 16,191 ratings — published 1991
A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,431 ratings — published 2001
Crenshaw (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.97 — 38,423 ratings — published 2015
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.96 — 74,491 ratings — published 2011
Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.36 — 46,403 ratings — published 2018
Those Shoes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,088 ratings — published 2007
Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.58 — 6,095 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 — 8,023 ratings — published 2007
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,901,192 ratings — published 2018
Trash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.57 — 15,258 ratings — published 2010
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,046,471 ratings — published 2008
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,023,714 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 — 25,372 ratings — published 2016
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,267,475 ratings — published 2012
The Other America: Poverty in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,224 ratings — published 1962
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.09 — 64,590 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 — 6,933 ratings — published 2009
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,108,032 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 — 89,396 ratings — published 2003
“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
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“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
― Confessions
― Confessions
