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Poverty Books
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 312 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.47 鈥� 108,856 ratings 鈥� published 2016
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 259 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.32 鈥� 1,316,994 ratings 鈥� published 2005
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 214 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.65 鈥� 194,204 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� 114,235 ratings 鈥� published 2012
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.85 鈥� 484,637 ratings 鈥� published 2016
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.27 鈥� 55,339 ratings 鈥� published 2023
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.86 鈥� 108,777 ratings 鈥� published 2019
Angela鈥檚 Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 112 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.15 鈥� 649,269 ratings 鈥� published 1996
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.48 鈥� 681,300 ratings 鈥� published 2022
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.02 鈥� 966,531 ratings 鈥� published 1939
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 鈥� 495,802 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� 23,596 ratings 鈥� published 2011
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.09 鈥� 96,740 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� 11,182 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� 8,608 ratings 鈥� published 2015
Free Lunch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.36 鈥� 10,219 ratings 鈥� published 2019
The Benefits of Being an Octopus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.21 鈥� 15,656 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� 280,706 ratings 鈥� published 2007
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.70 鈥� 18,272 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� 13,869 ratings 鈥� published 2009
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.03 鈥� 49,672 ratings 鈥� published 2017
Maddi's Fridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.52 鈥� 1,832 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� 772,136 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� 10,317 ratings 鈥� published 1991
The Working Poor: Invisible in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.04 鈥� 5,695 ratings 鈥� published 2004
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 53 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.38 鈥� 3,444,231 ratings 鈥� published 2018
Last Stop on Market Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 鈥� 18,151 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� 15,882 ratings 鈥� published 1991
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 鈥� 881,221 ratings 鈥� published 2021
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.76 鈥� 16,220 ratings 鈥� published 2018
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.62 鈥� 252,691 ratings 鈥� published 2014
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.88 鈥� 417,985 ratings 鈥� published 1838
A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.92 鈥� 5,320 ratings 鈥� published 2001
Crenshaw (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.97 鈥� 36,652 ratings 鈥� published 2015
Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.58 鈥� 6,017 ratings 鈥� published 2014
Those Shoes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.45 鈥� 3,993 ratings 鈥� published 2007
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.96 鈥� 70,978 ratings 鈥� published 2011
Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
by (shelved 47 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.37 鈥� 43,230 ratings 鈥� published 2018
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� 7,926 ratings 鈥� published 2007
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.47 鈥� 1,753,104 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� 24,448 ratings 鈥� published 2016
Trash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.58 鈥� 14,693 ratings 鈥� published 2010
The Other America: Poverty in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.06 鈥� 1,178 ratings 鈥� published 1962
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.35 鈥� 9,513,897 ratings 鈥� published 2008
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.28 鈥� 1,013,038 ratings 鈥� published 1866
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.46 鈥� 980,232 ratings 鈥� published 2017
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.93 鈥� 1,234,826 ratings 鈥� published 2012
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� 87,186 ratings 鈥� published 2003
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.77 鈥� 199,484 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� 114,505 ratings 鈥� published 2010
“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Angela鈥檚 Ashes
― Angela鈥檚 Ashes
“Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?”
― In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers
― In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers
