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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 117,012 ratings — published 2012
Shantaram (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as slums)
avg rating 4.28 — 240,505 ratings — published 2003
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as slums)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,379 ratings — published 2006
In Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as slums)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,995 ratings — published 2012
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Tales of New York (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 2,983 ratings — published 1893
City of Brick and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as slums)
avg rating 3.40 — 132 ratings — published 2014
The City of Joy (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 8,383 ratings — published 1985
Secret Daughter (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 77,774 ratings — published 2010
The Virgin Cure (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 16,145 ratings — published 2011
The Last Dragon on Mars (The Dragonships #1)
by (shelved 1 time as slums)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,248 ratings — published 2024
The White Bird Passes (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as slums)
avg rating 3.72 — 252 ratings — published 1958
Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 115 ratings — published 2004
The Classic Slum: Salford Life in the First Quarter of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as slums)
avg rating 3.96 — 245 ratings — published 1973
Cities with Slums: From Informal Settlement Eradication to a Right to the City in Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as slums)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 2011
The Challenge of Slums: Global Report on Human Settlements 2003 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as slums)
avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published 2003
Killer on the Road: Violence and the American Interstate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as slums)
avg rating 3.76 — 452 ratings — published 2012
Jane Steele (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as slums)
avg rating 3.88 — 16,524 ratings — published 2016
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 68,489 ratings — published 2020
Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 55,459 ratings — published 2018
Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy, #1)
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avg rating 4.33 — 855,145 ratings — published 2024
Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)
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avg rating 4.08 — 605,870 ratings — published 2024
Hiding The Bastard’s Baby (The Rozovsky Heirs, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 12 ratings — published
Girl in Translation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 58,796 ratings — published 2010
Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as slums)
avg rating 3.75 — 582 ratings — published 2015
Bill Bryson's African Diary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.49 — 10,505 ratings — published 2002
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 133,250 ratings — published 1981
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 160,426 ratings — published 1995
Spellslinger (Spellslinger, #1)
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avg rating 4.03 — 19,663 ratings — published 2017
Up the Junction (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as slums)
avg rating 3.35 — 947 ratings — published 1963
We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 797 ratings — published 2018
Street Corner Secrets: Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)
by (shelved 1 time as slums)
avg rating 4.24 — 17 ratings — published 2014
The Durable Slum: Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai (Volume 23) (Globalization and Community)
by (shelved 1 time as slums)
avg rating 3.88 — 24 ratings — published 2014
Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, a New Urban World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as slums)
avg rating 3.81 — 387 ratings — published 2004
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as slums)
avg rating 4.14 — 155,530 ratings — published 2017
A Christmas Promise (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 2,068 ratings — published 2009
A Most Unlikely Duke (Diamonds in the Rough #1)
by (shelved 1 time as slums)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,365 ratings — published 2017
Girl of the Southern Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as slums)
avg rating 3.98 — 432 ratings — published 2019
Gdy nie nadejdzie jutro (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.54 — 24 ratings — published 2011
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 24,501 ratings — published 2011
The Ripper's Shadow (Victorian Mystery #1)
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avg rating 3.59 — 1,849 ratings — published 2017
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
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avg rating 4.57 — 773,365 ratings — published 2016
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,159,289 ratings — published 2015
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 3,430 ratings — published 2016
The Places We Live (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 36 ratings — published 2008
Slumgirl Dreaming: Rubina's Journey to the Stars (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.62 — 170 ratings — published 2009
Ulica mnie woła. Życiorysy z Limy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as slums)
avg rating 3.74 — 192 ratings — published 2016
![Goodnight, and Thanks for the Vodka [2002] by Harpie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1442216888l/25547711._SX98_.jpg "Goodnight, and Thanks for the Vodka [2002] by Harpie")
“...any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums, Paul learned, who find prison so soul destroying.”
― Decline and Fall
― Decline and Fall
“Unless we are able to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor, the GDP and other facts and figures would be merely decorative and of little significance.”
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