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Poverty Books
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 320 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,124 ratings — published 2016
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 264 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,352,869 ratings — published 2005
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 213 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,294 ratings — published 2001
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.98 — 116,418 ratings — published 2012
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.27 — 60,587 ratings — published 2023
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 167 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.84 — 500,984 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 — 112,662 ratings — published 2019
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.47 — 775,246 ratings — published 2022
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 114 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.15 — 656,646 ratings — published 1996
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.03 — 989,035 ratings — published 1939
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,278 ratings — published 2011
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 509,674 ratings — published 1943
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.09 — 100,468 ratings — published 1933
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,239 ratings — published 2005
Free Lunch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,899 ratings — published 2019
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,775 ratings — published 2015
The Benefits of Being an Octopus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.21 — 16,103 ratings — published 2018
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.06 — 284,307 ratings — published 2007
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.70 — 19,146 ratings — published 2021
Maddi's Fridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.53 — 1,923 ratings — published 2014
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.20 — 14,005 ratings — published 2009
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,458 ratings — published 2017
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 961,788 ratings — published 2021
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.49 — 799,405 ratings — published 2016
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.88 — 425,982 ratings — published 1838
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 55 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,581,528 ratings — published 2018
The Working Poor: Invisible in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,728 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 — 10,395 ratings — published 1991
Last Stop on Market Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 18,553 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.62 — 260,136 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 — 16,493 ratings — published 2018
A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,387 ratings — published 2001
Those Shoes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,053 ratings — published 2007
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 50 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.30 — 16,066 ratings — published 1991
Crenshaw (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.97 — 37,727 ratings — published 2015
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.96 — 73,074 ratings — published 2011
Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.36 — 45,139 ratings — published 2018
Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.58 — 6,071 ratings — published 2014
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.85 — 7,985 ratings — published 2007
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,838,619 ratings — published 2018
Trash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.58 — 15,040 ratings — published 2010
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.77 — 24,988 ratings — published 2016
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,816,271 ratings — published 2008
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as poverty)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,253,790 ratings — published 2012
The Other America: Poverty in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,214 ratings — published 1962
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,067,555 ratings — published 1866
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,004,917 ratings — published 2017
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 — 88,497 ratings — published 2003
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.09 — 62,181 ratings — published 2012
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as poverty)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,845 ratings — published 2009
“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
― The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
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