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Poverty

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Rating
Readers Count
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#2
Poor People
Poor People
  • William T. Vollmann
23 reads
#3
Listen to the Wind: The Story of Dr. Greg & Three Cups of Tea
Listen to the Wind: The Story of Dr. Greg & Three Cups of Tea
  • Greg Mortenson
41 read
#4
A Fine Balance
A Fine Balance
  • Rohinton Mistry
4.392 reads
#5
The Good Earth
The Good Earth
  • Pearl S. Buck
3.79168 reads
#6
The Last Shot
The Last Shot
  • Darcy Frey
44 reads
#7
Material World: A Global Family Portrait
Material World: A Global Family Portrait
  • Peter Menzel
51 read
#8
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
  • William Kamkwamba
  • Bryan Mealer
4.2831 reads
#9
Midnight's Children
Midnight's Children
  • Salman Rushdie
4.01177 reads
#10
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
  • Rebecca Skloot
4.18414 reads
#11
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
  • Isabel Wilkerson
4.46104 reads
#12
Migrant Mother: How a Photograph Defined the Great Depression
Migrant Mother: How a Photograph Defined the Great Depression
  • Don Nardo
31 read
#13
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
  • Katherine Boo
3.97104 reads
#14
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
  • Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
3.7315 reads
#15
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
  • Barbara Ehrenreich
3.62161 reads
#16
No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City
No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City
  • Katherine S. Newman
41 read
#17
Changing the Odds for Children at Risk: Seven Essential Principles of Educational Programs that Break the Cycle of Poverty
Changing the Odds for Children at Risk: Seven Essential Principles of Educational Programs that Break the Cycle of Poverty
  • Susan B. Neuman
31 read
#18
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
  • Paul Theroux
3.711 reads
#19
My Name Is Lucy Barton
My Name Is Lucy Barton
  • Elizabeth Strout
3.69106 reads
#20
Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
  • Jonathan Kozol
43 reads
#21
Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America
Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America
  • Michelle Kennedy
31 read
#22
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard: Library Edition
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard: Library Edition
  • Liz Murray
4.2511 reads
#23
Train to Somewhere
Train to Somewhere
  • Eve Bunting
52 reads
#24
Somebody Else's Children: The Courts, The Kids, and The Struggle to Save America's Troubled Families
Somebody Else's Children: The Courts, The Kids, and The Struggle to Save America's Troubled Families
  • Jill Wolfson
41 read
#25
The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle
  • Jeannette Walls
4.19447 reads
#26
Stealing Buddha's Dinner
Stealing Buddha's Dinner
  • Bich Minh Nguyen
46 reads
#27
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
  • Matthew Desmond
4.6188 reads
#28
Where the Lilies Bloom
Where the Lilies Bloom
  • Bill Cleaver
  • Vera Cleaver
4.25 reads
#29
Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End
Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End
  • Jennifer Worth
41 read
#30
Call the Midwife
Call the Midwife
  • Jennifer Worth
3.579 reads
#31
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
  • Sherman Alexie
4.3815 reads
#32
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
  • J.D. Vance
3.46355 reads
#33
Just Mercy
Just Mercy
  • Bryan Stevenson
4.73195 reads
#34
Cider With Rosie
Cider With Rosie
  • Laurie Lee
3.7819 reads
#35
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
  • Sherman Alexie
4253 reads
#36
White Trash
White Trash
  • Nancy Isenberg
3.7147 reads
#37
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
  • Arlie Russell Hochschild
4.0347 reads
#38
Badger On The Barge And Other Stories
Badger On The Barge And Other Stories
  • Janni Howker
41 read
#39
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind
  • Margaret Mitchell
4.05368 reads
#40
Nomadland
Nomadland
  • Jessica Bruder
  • Nathalie Peronny (Translator)
4.46 reads
#41
A Little Princess
A Little Princess
  • Frances Hodgson Burnett
4.23251 reads
#42
Hey, Wall
Hey, Wall
  • Susan Verde
41 read
#43
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition
  • Erica Armstrong Dunbar
  • Kathleen Van Cleve
42 reads
#44
To the End of June
To the End of June
  • Cris Beam
3.65 reads
#45
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath
  • John Steinbeck
3.81779 reads
#46
The Benefits of Being an Octopus
The Benefits of Being an Octopus
  • Ann Braden
410 reads
#47
The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border
The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border
  • Francisco Cantú
3.9227 reads
#48
Unsheltered
Unsheltered
    3.8153 reads
    #49
    The Water Princess
    The Water Princess
    • Susan Verde
    4.52 reads
    #51
    The Great American Dust Bowl
    The Great American Dust Bowl
    • Don Brown
    4.333 reads
    #52
    Brother, Can You Spare a Dime: The Great Depression, 1929-1933
    Brother, Can You Spare a Dime: The Great Depression, 1929-1933
    • Milton Meltzer
    41 read
    #53
    How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
    How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
    • Mohsin Hamid
    3.8856 reads
    #54
    The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks
    The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks
    • Benedicta Ward (Translator)
    41 read
    #55
    Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
    Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
    • Stephanie Land
    3.7662 reads
    #57
    There There
    There There
    • Tommy Orange
    3.93292 reads
    #58
    La Bohème
    La Bohème
      41 read
      #59
      At the back of the North Wind
      At the back of the North Wind
      • George MacDonald
      3.638 reads
      #60
      The Worst Hard Time
      The Worst Hard Time
      • Timothy Egan
      4.0147 reads
      #61
      The Hungry Years
      The Hungry Years
      • T. H. Watkins
      21 read
      #62
      Place to Belong
      Place to Belong
      • Cynthia Kadohata
      3.52 reads
      #63
      The Vicar of Wakefield
      The Vicar of Wakefield
      • Oliver Goldsmith
      3.3810 reads
      #64
      Out of the Dust
      Out of the Dust
      • Karen Hesse
      3.5245 reads
      #65
      Pachinko
      Pachinko
      • Min Jin Lee
      4.24588 reads
      #66
      Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, & Criminal in 19th-Century New York
      Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, & Criminal in 19th-Century New York
      • Stacy Horn
      3.85 reads
      #67
      Cover 5

      A Place to Stay

      A Place to Stay: A Shelter Story
      • Erin Gunti
      41 read
      #68
      Even Darkness Sings: From Auschwitz to Hiroshima: Finding Hope and Optimism in the Saddest Places on Earth
      Even Darkness Sings: From Auschwitz to Hiroshima: Finding Hope and Optimism in the Saddest Places on Earth
      • Thomas H. Cook
      41 read
      #70
      Aunt Pearl
      Aunt Pearl
      • Monica Kulling
      41 read
      #71
      Heartland
      Heartland
      • Sarah Smarsh
      3.6717 reads
      #72
      Twelve by Twelve
      Twelve by Twelve
      • William Powers
      32 reads
      #73
      Wilma Unlimited
      Wilma Unlimited
      • Kathleen Krull
      51 read
      #74
      Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
      Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
      • Leslie T. Chang
      3.8314 reads
      #75
      Secret of the Andes
      Secret of the Andes
      • Ann Nolan Clark
      3.53 reads
      #76
      Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
      Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
      • Margaret Sidney
      4.2210 reads
      #77
      Jazz Man
      Jazz Man
      • Mary Hays Weik
      31 read
      #78
      Deer Hunting with Jesus
      Deer Hunting with Jesus
      • Joe Bageant
      3.5611 reads
      #79
      Cover 0

      The Beans of Egypt, Maine

      The Beans of Egypt, Maine
      • Carolyn Chute
      3.53 reads
      #81
      Ruby's Hope: A Story of How the Famous “Migrant Mother” Photograph Became the Face of the Great Depression
      Ruby's Hope: A Story of How the Famous “Migrant Mother” Photograph Became the Face of the Great Depression
      • Monica Kulling
      41 read
      #82
      Walk with Me
      Walk with Me
      • Jairo Buitrago
      • Elisa Amado (Translator)
      41 read
      #83
      Germinal
      Germinal
      • Émile Zola
      4.0513 reads
      #84
      Tightrope
      Tightrope
      • Nicholas D. Kristof
      • Sheryl WuDunn
      4.389 reads
      #85
      Howards End
      Howards End
      • E.M. Forster
      3.3427 reads
      #86
      The Dutch House
      The Dutch House
      • Ann Patchett
      4.01293 reads
      #87
      The Little Match Girl
      The Little Match Girl
      • Hans Christian Andersen
      4.2140 reads
      #88
      Educated: A Memoir
      Educated: A Memoir
      • Tara Westover
      4.431,098 reads
      #89
      I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening): A Guide to Grace-Filled Political Conversations
      I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening): A Guide to Grace-Filled Political Conversations
      • Sarah Stewart Holland
      • Beth Silvers
      4.255 reads
      #91
      A Wish in the Dark
      A Wish in the Dark
      • Christina Soontornvat
      4.512 reads
      #92
      Farmers Unite! Planting a Protest for Fair Prices
      Farmers Unite! Planting a Protest for Fair Prices
      • Lindsay H. Metcalf
      41 read
      #94
      War and Peace
      War and Peace
      • Leo Tolstoy
      • Marcy Kahan
      • Mike Walker
      4.07360 reads
      #95
      Cover 5

      The Salt Path

      The Salt Path: A Memoir
      • Raynor Winn
      4.333 reads
      #96
      Ready Player One
      Ready Player One
      • Ernest Cline
      3.962,775 reads
      #97
      The Stars My Destination
      The Stars My Destination
      • Alfred Bester
      3.87234 reads
      #99
      The World's Poorest President Speaks Out
      The World's Poorest President Speaks Out
      • Andrew Wong (Translator)
      51 read
      #100
      Infinite Country
      Infinite Country
      • Patricia Engel
      3.7347 reads
      #101
      Stone Cold
      Stone Cold
      • Robert Swindells
      33 reads
      #102
      The Four Winds
      The Four Winds
      • Kristin Hannah
      4.12271 reads
      #103
      The Prince and the Pauper
      The Prince and the Pauper
      • Mark Twain
      3.5194 reads
      #104
      Favorite Folktales from Around the World
      Favorite Folktales from Around the World
      • Jane Yolen
      53 reads
      #105
      The Girl with the Louding Voice
      The Girl with the Louding Voice
      • Abi Daré
      4.3290 reads
      #106
      Watercress
      Watercress
      • Andrea Wang
      4.26 reads
      #107
      The Passover Guest
      The Passover Guest
      • Susan Kusel
      41 read
      #108
      Gracelin O'Malley
      Gracelin O'Malley
      • Ann Moore
      41 read