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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 322 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,109 ratings — published 2016
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 269 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,407,318 ratings — published 2005
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 216 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,782 ratings — published 2001
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 215 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,224 ratings — published 2012
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 185 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.27 — 66,900 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 — 514,339 ratings — published 2016
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.46 — 895,943 ratings — published 2022
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.86 — 116,282 ratings — published 2019
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 115 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.16 — 668,288 ratings — published 1996
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.27 — 25,128 ratings — published 2011
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,025,020 ratings — published 1939
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.31 — 531,827 ratings — published 1943
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.09 — 105,956 ratings — published 1933
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,294 ratings — published 2005
Free Lunch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.36 — 11,677 ratings — published 2019
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,966 ratings — published 2015
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.70 — 20,272 ratings — published 2021
The Benefits of Being an Octopus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.21 — 16,659 ratings — published 2018
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.05 — 288,580 ratings — published 2007
Maddi's Fridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.53 — 1,999 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 — 14,213 ratings — published 2009
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.02 — 51,542 ratings — published 2017
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.88 — 437,035 ratings — published 1838
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,086,614 ratings — published 2021
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.48 — 844,417 ratings — published 2016
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 58 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,782,576 ratings — published 2018
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,495 ratings — published 1991
The Working Poor: Invisible in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,765 ratings — published 2004
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.62 — 271,556 ratings — published 2014
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 53 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 16,333 ratings — published 1991
Last Stop on Market Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.31 — 19,019 ratings — published 2015
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.96 — 75,972 ratings — published 2011
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 — 16,908 ratings — published 2018
A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,468 ratings — published 2001
Crenshaw (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.97 — 39,081 ratings — published 2015
Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.36 — 47,678 ratings — published 2018
Those Shoes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,116 ratings — published 2007
Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.58 — 6,123 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 — 8,071 ratings — published 2007
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,965,306 ratings — published 2018
Trash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.57 — 15,513 ratings — published 2010
The Other America: Poverty in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,236 ratings — published 1962
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 205,213 ratings — published 2020
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,041,404 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 — 25,723 ratings — published 2016
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,280,369 ratings — published 2012
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,923 ratings — published 2012
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 — 7,029 ratings — published 2009
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,252,500 ratings — published 2008
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.32 — 292,555 ratings — published 2025
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
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