Poor


The Glass Castle
The Rainmaker
The Prince and the Pauper
Our Mutual Friend
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Midnight’s Children
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Ethan Frome and Selected Stories
Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. - How the Working Poor Became Big Business
A Life with the Poor
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
The Selection (The Selection, #1)
Paper Princess (The Royals, #1)
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Kyland by Mia SheridanRuthless by Anne StuartTrade Me by Courtney MilanOnce Upon a Masquerade by Tamara HughesUnshakeable by Molly MacKenzie
Poverty in Romance Novels
54 books — 19 voters
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie MeyerEclipse by Stephenie MeyerNew Moon by Stephenie MeyerTwilight by Stephenie MeyerAllegiant by Veronica Roth
The Worst Things You Have Ever Read
188 books — 34 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset MaughamCaptains Courageous by Rudyard KiplingStreaking for Mother by Mark ShearmanTouching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
Loss of things/rags to riches
9 books — 4 voters
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichEvicted by Matthew DesmondJourney to the West by Biao  WangMaid by Stephanie  LandThe Working Poor by David K. Shipler
Books on Poverty and Inequality
219 books — 118 voters

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryHarry Potter Series Box Set by J.K. RowlingThe Bad Beginning by Lemony SnicketSky Ghosts by Alexandra EngellmannThe Forsaken by R.J. Craddock
Awesome Orphans
161 books — 76 voters

Warren Buffett
There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.
Warren Buffett

Stephen Colbert
If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it. ...more
Stephen Colbert

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