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Inner City Books
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Tyrell (Tyrell, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,071 ratings — published 2006
Monster: A Story About Crime, Justice, and Life on Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as inner-city)
avg rating 3.73 — 75,556 ratings — published 1999
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,026 ratings — published 2019
When I Was the Greatest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,507 ratings — published 2014
Bronx Masquerade (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as inner-city)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,028 ratings — published 2001
The Death of Jayson Porter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as inner-city)
avg rating 3.92 — 489 ratings — published 2008
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.49 — 30,584 ratings — published 2009
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.33 — 86,089 ratings — published 2017
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,772,216 ratings — published 2012
City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,019,346 ratings — published 2009
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,183,857 ratings — published 2007
City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.10 — 999,819 ratings — published 2008
Tomorrow, When the War Began (Tomorrow, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.04 — 60,968 ratings — published 1993
Ghost (Track, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.18 — 52,865 ratings — published 2016
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.24 — 139,408 ratings — published 2017
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,021,538 ratings — published 2017
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.07 — 19,855 ratings — published 2015
Pigeon English (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 3.52 — 12,526 ratings — published 2011
Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,870 ratings — published 2012
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.14 — 28,878 ratings — published 2014
Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 3.50 — 938 ratings — published 2013
Peace, Locomotion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,032 ratings — published 2009
The Orange Houses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 3.45 — 996 ratings — published 2009
The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,544 ratings — published 2002
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.30 — 16,171 ratings — published 1991
Desayuno en Tiffany's (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.71 — 39,287 ratings — published 1958
All Involved (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,177 ratings — published 2015
Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,754 ratings — published 1994
Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,099 ratings — published 1997
Last Summer on State Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.21 — 12,316 ratings — published 2022
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.07 — 25,682 ratings — published 2008
The Essential 55 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,821 ratings — published 2003
You Cant Say You Can't Play (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.86 — 730 ratings — published 1992
Here I Am... A Memoir for Motivational Purposes (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published
Victim (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,444 ratings — published 2024
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,523 ratings — published 2021
A Most Beautiful Thing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.35 — 6,380 ratings — published 2020
Small Mercies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.27 — 74,785 ratings — published 2023
Acceleration (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.74 — 5,053 ratings — published 2003
Crook Manifesto (The Harlem Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.86 — 21,003 ratings — published 2023
Rough Sleepers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.34 — 11,056 ratings — published 2023
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.26 — 267,631 ratings — published 2019
Boy21 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.94 — 10,944 ratings — published 2012
Mick (Blue-Eyed Son, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.25 — 24 ratings — published 1996
Anansi Boys (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.04 — 230,182 ratings — published 2005
On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.24 — 619 ratings — published 2021
The Cross and the Switchblade (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.27 — 60,414 ratings — published 1963
Saint Iggy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,420 ratings — published 2006
Nightcrawling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.95 — 62,047 ratings — published 2022
“Poor black families were “immersed in a domestic web of a large number of kin and friends whom they [could] count on,” wrote the anthropologist Carol Stack in All Our Kin. Those entwined in such a web swapped goods and services on a daily basis. This did little to lift families out of poverty, but it was enough to keep them afloat. But large-scale social transformations—the crack epidemic, the rise of the black middle class, and the prison boom among them—had frayed the family safety net in poor communities. So had state policies like Aid to Families with Dependent Children that sought to limit “kin dependence” by giving mothers who lived alone or with unrelated roommates a larger stipend than those who lived with relatives.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“A young, beautiful mayor’s with high-powered plans for the city of Compton must put them aside to become a sleuth to solve the assassination of her husband, the mayor.”
― The Mayor's Wife Wore Sapphires
― The Mayor's Wife Wore Sapphires
