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Tyrell (Tyrell, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,094 ratings — published 2006
Monster (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as inner-city)
avg rating 3.73 — 76,346 ratings — published 1999
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,831 ratings — published 2019
When I Was the Greatest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,590 ratings — published 2014
Bronx Masquerade (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as inner-city)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,100 ratings — published 2001
The Death of Jayson Porter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as inner-city)
avg rating 3.93 — 492 ratings — published 2008
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.49 — 31,606 ratings — published 2009
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.32 — 87,191 ratings — published 2017
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,889,298 ratings — published 2012
City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,030,073 ratings — published 2009
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,217,623 ratings — published 2007
City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,012,329 ratings — published 2008
Tomorrow, When the War Began (Tomorrow, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.04 — 62,057 ratings — published 1993
Ghost (Track, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.18 — 54,592 ratings — published 2016
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.24 — 143,860 ratings — published 2017
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,044,484 ratings — published 2017
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.07 — 20,232 ratings — published 2015
Pigeon English (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 3.51 — 12,663 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 — 1,883 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 — 29,309 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 3.51 — 944 ratings — published 2013
Peace, Locomotion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,045 ratings — published 2009
The Orange Houses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as inner-city)
avg rating 3.46 — 997 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 — 3,577 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 — 16,363 ratings — published 1991
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.22 — 861,454 ratings — published 1987
Desayuno en Tiffany's (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.71 — 40,787 ratings — published 1958
All Involved (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,236 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 — 5,783 ratings — published 1994
Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,116 ratings — published 1997
Last Summer on State Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.17 — 16,786 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 — 26,058 ratings — published 2008
The Essential 55 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,926 ratings — published 2003
You Cant Say You Can't Play (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.86 — 739 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 3.80 — 4,745 ratings — published 2024
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,618 ratings — published 2021
A Most Beautiful Thing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.34 — 6,500 ratings — published 2020
Small Mercies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.27 — 79,432 ratings — published 2023
Acceleration (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.74 — 5,108 ratings — published 2003
Crook Manifesto (The Harlem Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.88 — 23,164 ratings — published 2023
Rough Sleepers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.34 — 11,772 ratings — published 2023
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.25 — 273,952 ratings — published 2019
Boy21 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.94 — 11,022 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 — 231,397 ratings — published 2005
On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.23 — 640 ratings — published 2021
The Cross and the Switchblade (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 4.27 — 61,198 ratings — published 1963
Saint Iggy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,426 ratings — published 2006
Nightcrawling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as inner-city)
avg rating 3.94 — 65,283 ratings — published 2022
![Goodnight, and Thanks for the Vodka [2002] by Harpie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1442216888l/25547711._SX98_.jpg "Goodnight, and Thanks for the Vodka [2002] by Harpie")
“Vagrants huddled in doorways, their hands tucked into their armpits, hats pulled down low, like sleeping birds. But they were city birds, dull in plumage and faded into their corners.”
― Ghost Talker
― Ghost Talker
“If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
