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Poverty Books
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 318 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,256 ratings — published 2016
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 264 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,354,325 ratings — published 2005
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 213 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,344 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 — 116,478 ratings — published 2012
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.27 — 60,755 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 — 501,600 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 — 112,765 ratings — published 2019
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.47 — 777,929 ratings — published 2022
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 114 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.15 — 656,925 ratings — published 1996
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.03 — 989,870 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 — 24,307 ratings — published 2011
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 510,152 ratings — published 1943
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.09 — 100,587 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 — 10,918 ratings — published 2019
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,778 ratings — published 2015
The Benefits of Being an Octopus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.21 — 16,115 ratings — published 2018
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.06 — 284,391 ratings — published 2007
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.70 — 19,161 ratings — published 2021
Maddi's Fridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.53 — 1,928 ratings — published 2014
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.20 — 14,010 ratings — published 2009
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,494 ratings — published 2017
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 964,346 ratings — published 2021
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.49 — 800,600 ratings — published 2016
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.88 — 426,326 ratings — published 1838
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 55 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,587,539 ratings — published 2018
The Working Poor: Invisible in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,729 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 — 10,394 ratings — published 1991
Last Stop on Market Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 18,560 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.62 — 260,377 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 — 16,503 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 — 16,070 ratings — published 1991
A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,388 ratings — published 2001
Those Shoes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,052 ratings — published 2007
Crenshaw (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.97 — 37,755 ratings — published 2015
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.96 — 73,136 ratings — published 2011
Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.36 — 45,204 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 — 7,989 ratings — published 2007
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,841,802 ratings — published 2018
Trash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.58 — 15,057 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 — 25,009 ratings — published 2016
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,830,815 ratings — published 2008
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,254,597 ratings — published 2012
The Other America: Poverty in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,215 ratings — published 1962
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,069,957 ratings — published 1866
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,005,929 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 — 88,541 ratings — published 2003
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.09 — 62,341 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 — 6,850 ratings — published 2009
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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
“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
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