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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 — 117,431 ratings — published 2016
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,399,068 ratings — published 2005
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 217 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,619 ratings — published 2001
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 213 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.98 — 118,867 ratings — published 2012
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 183 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.27 — 66,206 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 — 512,589 ratings — published 2016
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.46 — 877,961 ratings — published 2022
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.86 — 115,813 ratings — published 2019
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 115 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.16 — 666,084 ratings — published 1996
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,018,735 ratings — published 1939
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.27 — 25,013 ratings — published 2011
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 528,184 ratings — published 1943
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.09 — 105,060 ratings — published 1933
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,283 ratings — published 2005
Free Lunch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.36 — 11,581 ratings — published 2019
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,948 ratings — published 2015
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.70 — 20,138 ratings — published 2021
The Benefits of Being an Octopus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.21 — 16,589 ratings — published 2018
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.05 — 288,060 ratings — published 2007
Maddi's Fridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.53 — 1,994 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 — 14,187 ratings — published 2009
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.02 — 51,389 ratings — published 2017
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,069,096 ratings — published 2021
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.49 — 836,892 ratings — published 2016
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.88 — 435,394 ratings — published 1838
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 57 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,754,863 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 — 10,473 ratings — published 1991
The Working Poor: Invisible in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,761 ratings — published 2004
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.62 — 269,976 ratings — published 2014
Last Stop on Market Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.31 — 18,984 ratings — published 2015
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.96 — 75,535 ratings — published 2011
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 52 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 16,302 ratings — published 1991
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 — 16,852 ratings — published 2018
A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,457 ratings — published 2001
Crenshaw (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.97 — 38,911 ratings — published 2015
Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.36 — 47,338 ratings — published 2018
Those Shoes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,106 ratings — published 2007
Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.58 — 6,115 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 — 8,045 ratings — published 2007
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,946,005 ratings — published 2018
Trash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.57 — 15,413 ratings — published 2010
The Other America: Poverty in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,233 ratings — published 1962
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,036,295 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 — 25,638 ratings — published 2016
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,276,744 ratings — published 2012
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,190,522 ratings — published 2008
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 202,042 ratings — published 2020
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,232 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 — 6,995 ratings — published 2009
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.38 — 163,551 ratings — published 1995
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
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“Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.”
― All Over But the Shoutin'
― All Over But the Shoutin'
