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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 325 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,854 ratings — published 2016
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 267 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,415,878 ratings — published 2005
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,626 ratings — published 2012
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 216 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,992 ratings — published 2001
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 186 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.27 — 67,689 ratings — published 2023
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.83 — 516,308 ratings — published 2016
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.46 — 916,989 ratings — published 2022
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.86 — 116,777 ratings — published 2019
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 115 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.16 — 670,816 ratings — published 1996
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.27 — 25,255 ratings — published 2011
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,031,962 ratings — published 1939
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.31 — 535,884 ratings — published 1943
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.09 — 107,075 ratings — published 1933
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,303 ratings — published 2005
Free Lunch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.36 — 11,823 ratings — published 2019
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,989 ratings — published 2015
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.70 — 20,434 ratings — published 2021
The Benefits of Being an Octopus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.21 — 16,730 ratings — published 2018
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.05 — 289,334 ratings — published 2007
Maddi's Fridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.53 — 2,019 ratings — published 2014
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.20 — 14,279 ratings — published 2009
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.48 — 853,100 ratings — published 2016
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 59 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,810,827 ratings — published 2018
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.02 — 51,709 ratings — published 2017
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.88 — 438,996 ratings — published 1838
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,106,123 ratings — published 2021
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,510 ratings — published 1991
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 54 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 16,369 ratings — published 1991
The Working Poor: Invisible in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,773 ratings — published 2004
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.96 — 76,476 ratings — published 2011
Last Stop on Market Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.31 — 19,087 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.62 — 273,302 ratings — published 2014
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,945 ratings — published 2018
A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,478 ratings — published 2001
Crenshaw (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.97 — 39,264 ratings — published 2015
Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.35 — 48,026 ratings — published 2018
Those Shoes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,128 ratings — published 2007
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,076 ratings — published 2007
Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.58 — 6,131 ratings — published 2014
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,986,786 ratings — published 2018
Trash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.57 — 15,594 ratings — published 2010
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,284,589 ratings — published 2012
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,686 ratings — published 2012
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.77 — 207,213 ratings — published 2008
The Other America: Poverty in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,241 ratings — published 1962
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 208,467 ratings — published 2020
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.22 — 867,802 ratings — published 1862
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,046,655 ratings — published 2017
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.77 — 25,804 ratings — published 2016
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,067 ratings — published 2009
“It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
