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Poverty Books
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 311 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.47 鈥� 108,478 ratings 鈥� published 2016
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 259 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.32 鈥� 1,313,819 ratings 鈥� published 2005
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 214 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.65 鈥� 194,127 ratings 鈥� published 2001
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 204 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.98 鈥� 113,984 ratings 鈥� published 2012
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.85 鈥� 483,002 ratings 鈥� published 2016
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 156 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.27 鈥� 54,845 ratings 鈥� published 2023
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.86 鈥� 108,292 ratings 鈥� published 2019
Angela鈥檚 Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 112 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.15 鈥� 648,610 ratings 鈥� published 1996
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.48 鈥� 672,751 ratings 鈥� published 2022
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.02 鈥� 964,537 ratings 鈥� published 1939
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 鈥� 494,477 ratings 鈥� published 1943
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.28 鈥� 23,533 ratings 鈥� published 2011
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.09 鈥� 96,421 ratings 鈥� published 1933
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.69 鈥� 11,171 ratings 鈥� published 2005
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.96 鈥� 8,602 ratings 鈥� published 2015
Free Lunch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.36 鈥� 10,157 ratings 鈥� published 2019
The Benefits of Being an Octopus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.21 鈥� 15,619 ratings 鈥� published 2018
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.06 鈥� 280,370 ratings 鈥� published 2007
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.71 鈥� 18,221 ratings 鈥� published 2021
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.20 鈥� 13,851 ratings 鈥� published 2009
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.03 鈥� 49,601 ratings 鈥� published 2017
Maddi's Fridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.52 鈥� 1,830 ratings 鈥� published 2014
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.49 鈥� 769,693 ratings 鈥� published 2016
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.12 鈥� 10,310 ratings 鈥� published 1991
The Working Poor: Invisible in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.04 鈥� 5,694 ratings 鈥� published 2004
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 53 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.38 鈥� 3,432,600 ratings 鈥� published 2018
Last Stop on Market Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 鈥� 18,128 ratings 鈥� published 2015
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 53 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 鈥� 15,860 ratings 鈥� published 1991
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.63 鈥� 251,982 ratings 鈥� published 2014
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.88 鈥� 417,338 ratings 鈥� published 1838
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 鈥� 874,259 ratings 鈥� published 2021
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 鈥� 16,195 ratings 鈥� published 2018
A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.92 鈥� 5,317 ratings 鈥� published 2001
Crenshaw (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.97 鈥� 36,551 ratings 鈥� published 2015
Those Shoes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.45 鈥� 3,991 ratings 鈥� published 2007
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.96 鈥� 70,818 ratings 鈥� published 2011
Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
by (shelved 47 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.37 鈥� 43,069 ratings 鈥� published 2018
Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.58 鈥� 6,015 ratings 鈥� published 2014
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.85 鈥� 7,922 ratings 鈥� published 2007
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.47 鈥� 1,746,258 ratings 鈥� published 2018
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.76 鈥� 24,408 ratings 鈥� published 2016
Trash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.58 鈥� 14,674 ratings 鈥� published 2010
The Other America: Poverty in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.06 鈥� 1,177 ratings 鈥� published 1962
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.34 鈥� 9,483,488 ratings 鈥� published 2008
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.46 鈥� 977,786 ratings 鈥� published 2017
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.93 鈥� 1,233,002 ratings 鈥� published 2012
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.28 鈥� 1,009,462 ratings 鈥� 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 鈥� 87,055 ratings 鈥� published 2003
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.77 鈥� 199,251 ratings 鈥� published 2008
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.52 鈥� 114,300 ratings 鈥� published 2010
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“I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.”
― Ham on Rye
― Ham on Rye
“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
