Poverty


Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief
Poverty, by America
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
The White Hot
Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
This Is Where the Serpent Lives
Sisi Tergelap Surga
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
And Then, Boom!
Benbecula
A Kid Like Me: A Graphic Novel
The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman
Rough Sleepers
The Night Always Comes
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Glass Castle
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Poverty, by America
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Demon Copperhead
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
The Grapes of Wrath
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Down and Out in Paris and London
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
Free Lunch
The Color of Law by Richard RothsteinThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootMedical Apartheid by Harriet A. WashingtonWhen Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson
Breaking Brown Book Reads
114 books — 68 voters
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichEvicted by Matthew DesmondIn the Midst of Plenty by Marybeth ShinnIn the Midst of Plenty by Marybeth ShinnIn the Midst of Plenty by Marybeth Shinn
Books on Poverty and Inequality
270 books — 188 voters

Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa KleypasThe Duchess War by Courtney MilanSomething Wonderful by Judith McNaughtJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Admiral's Penniless Bride by Carla Kelly
Impoverished Heroines
134 books — 58 voters
Oliver Twist by Charles DickensA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourtThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsWhere the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Books Involving Lower Class Families
299 books — 24 voters

A Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboSheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K.  RitzThe Butcher of the Forest by Premee MohamedOne Dark Window by Rachel GilligWicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan
Anything You Really Liked
2,761 books — 1,283 voters


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Eugene V. Debs
“ I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence. ”
― Eugene Debs

Charles Darwin
“ If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. ”
― Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle

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