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Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.27 — 67,260 ratings — published 2023
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.61 — 25,937 ratings — published 2019
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,504 ratings — published 2010
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.11 — 51,818 ratings — published 2021
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,466 ratings — published 2016
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 3 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,866 ratings — published 2001
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,259 ratings — published 2020
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.05 — 955 ratings — published 2025
White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,254 ratings — published 2024
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,178 ratings — published 2014
The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.50 — 723 ratings — published 2023
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,063 ratings — published 2018
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,790 ratings — published 2008
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,317 ratings — published 2009
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,864 ratings — published 2021
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,032 ratings — published 2019
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,129 ratings — published 2016
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,449 ratings — published 2018
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.38 — 7,246 ratings — published 2008
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.33 — 182,371 ratings — published 2019
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.40 — 376,373 ratings — published 2015
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,050 ratings — published 2017
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,749 ratings — published 2020
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.70 — 20,342 ratings — published 2021
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.19 — 33,052 ratings — published 2018
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,974,922 ratings — published 2018
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.62 — 272,296 ratings — published 2014
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.21 — 15,202 ratings — published 2019
Free Lunch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.36 — 11,740 ratings — published 2019
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 3.83 — 515,177 ratings — published 2016
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,624 ratings — published 2017
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.21 — 44,698 ratings — published 2014
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.01 — 911,543 ratings — published 2005
Genesis Begins Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,052 ratings — published 2019
No Fixed Address (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,062 ratings — published 2018
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,707 ratings — published 2004
When My Heart Joins the Thousand: An Emotional Debut YA Romance About Autistic and Chronically Ill Teens Finding Hope (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,785 ratings — published 2018
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 3.87 — 31,016 ratings — published 2016
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,272 ratings — published 2012
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 3.97 — 13,860 ratings — published 2010
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 3.77 — 25,753 ratings — published 2016
March: Book One (March, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.34 — 58,297 ratings — published 2013
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.06 — 35,410 ratings — published 2013
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.10 — 59,823 ratings — published 2012
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 3.75 — 207,005 ratings — published 2001
Class Matters (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as socioeconomic)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,658 ratings — published 2005
Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,708 ratings — published 2019
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.58 — 10,590 ratings — published 2021
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,857 ratings — published 2018
The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as socioeconomic)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,762 ratings — published
“The main reason that violence correlates with low socioeconomic status today is that the elites and the middle class pursue justice with the legal system while the lower classes resort to what scholars of violence call “self-help.”
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
“That's a lot of what the ghetto is, a reflection of poor self esteem”
― Sandpaper Sisters: Addicts Turned Community Builders, Miracles Do Happen!
― Sandpaper Sisters: Addicts Turned Community Builders, Miracles Do Happen!