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Poverty Books
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 321 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.47 — 115,320 ratings — published 2016
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,376,364 ratings — published 2005
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 217 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.66 — 195,933 ratings — published 2001
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 209 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.98 — 117,575 ratings — published 2012
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.27 — 63,498 ratings — published 2023
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.83 — 507,902 ratings — published 2016
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.86 — 114,311 ratings — published 2019
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.46 — 826,036 ratings — published 2022
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 115 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.15 — 661,223 ratings — published 1996
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,003,157 ratings — published 1939
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,637 ratings — published 2011
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 517,965 ratings — published 1943
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,254 ratings — published 2005
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.09 — 102,707 ratings — published 1933
Free Lunch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.36 — 11,219 ratings — published 2019
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,872 ratings — published 2015
The Benefits of Being an Octopus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.21 — 16,345 ratings — published 2018
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.70 — 19,584 ratings — published 2021
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.05 — 286,114 ratings — published 2007
Maddi's Fridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.53 — 1,971 ratings — published 2014
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,918 ratings — published 2017
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.20 — 14,086 ratings — published 2009
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,017,005 ratings — published 2021
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.88 — 430,938 ratings — published 1838
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.49 — 817,886 ratings — published 2016
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 56 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,678,532 ratings — published 2018
The Working Poor: Invisible in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,746 ratings — published 2004
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,434 ratings — published 1991
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.62 — 265,100 ratings — published 2014
Last Stop on Market Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.31 — 18,772 ratings — published 2015
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 — 16,671 ratings — published 2018
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 51 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 16,168 ratings — published 1991
A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,422 ratings — published 2001
Crenshaw (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.97 — 38,315 ratings — published 2015
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.96 — 74,267 ratings — published 2011
Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.36 — 46,199 ratings — published 2018
Those Shoes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,083 ratings — published 2007
Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.58 — 6,089 ratings — published 2014
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,019 ratings — published 2007
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,892,827 ratings — published 2018
Trash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.57 — 15,228 ratings — published 2010
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,019,588 ratings — published 2008
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,021,137 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 — 25,320 ratings — published 2016
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,265,863 ratings — published 2012
The Other America: Poverty in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,222 ratings — published 1962
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.09 — 64,248 ratings — published 2012
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,921 ratings — published 2009
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,102,370 ratings — published 1866
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.20 — 89,275 ratings — published 2003
“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.”
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“That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
