Poverty - Non-Fiction
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This Childhood of Mine: A Memoir of My Last Summer with My Mentally Ill Mother and Alcoholic Father 4.21 avg rating β 34 ratings
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Luck Follows the Brave: From Refugee Camps, Abuse, and Suicide Loss to Living the Dream
by:
Aida Ε ibiΔ
4.56 avg rating β 18 ratings 5. 
Growing Up Poor: Home, School and Street in London 1870-1914
by:
Anna Davin
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 14 ratings 6. 
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The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
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Peter Singer
4.15 avg rating β 6,711 ratings 15. 
The Other Half: The Autobiography of a Spiv
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John Worby
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating 15. 
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
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Nancy Isenberg
3.76 avg rating β 24,555 ratings 15. 
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
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Liz Murray
4.22 avg rating β 21,744 ratings 15. 
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
by:
Jeffrey D. Sachs
3.69 avg rating β 11,196 ratings 
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Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty
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Jeff Madrick
3.67 avg rating β 145 ratings 22. 
An Eye For Others: Dorothy Day, Journalist: 1916-1917
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Tom McDonough
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 4 ratings 
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Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty 4.14 avg rating β 546 ratings
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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
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Jacob A. Riis
3.73 avg rating β 3,046 ratings 25. 
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
by:
Jessica Bruder
4.03 avg rating β 49,873 ratings 25. 
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
by:
Andrea Elliott
4.70 avg rating β 18,457 ratings 
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If You Can't Quit Cryin' You Can't Come Here No More: A Family's Legacy of Poverty, Crime and Mental Illness in Rural America
by:
Betty Frizzell
4.16 avg rating β 125 ratings 30. 
I Just Kept Walking (20 Years Homeless)
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Cass Ryder
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3 ratings 30. 
A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit 3.88 avg rating β 8 ratings
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I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond
by:
Michael Oher
4.13 avg rating β 8,684 ratings 32. 
Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South
by:
Brandi C Brimmer
4.86 avg rating β 7 ratings 34. 
The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
by:
Jennifer Toth
3.67 avg rating β 5,376 ratings 34. 
Women, Poverty, and AIDS: Sex, Drugs, and Structural Violence
by:
Paul Farmer
4.40 avg rating β 82 ratings 36. 
Going Down to the River: A Homeless Musician, an Unforgettable Song, and the Miraculous Encounter that Changed a Life
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Doug Seegers
3.74 avg rating β 35 ratings 36. 
Nobody's Child: A Tragedy, a Trial, and a History of the Insanity Defense 4.01 avg rating β 259 ratings
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Slums of the World: The face of urban poverty in the new millennium?
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Un-Habitat
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 
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Keeping the Dream Alive: The Cases and Causes of the Southern Poverty Law Center really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by:
Matthew Desmond
4.47 avg rating β 109,942 ratings 42. 
Reading Southern Poverty between the Wars, 1918β1939
by:
Richard Godden
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 3 ratings 45. 
Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America
by:
Jonathan Kozol
4.23 avg rating β 1,491 ratings 45. 
Poverty, Politics, and Race: The View From Down Here it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
by:
Anne Moody
4.13 avg rating β 11,515 ratings 
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
by:
Elizabeth Hinton
4.17 avg rating β 781 ratings 51. 
Walden on Wheels: On The Open Road from Debt to Freedom
by:
Ken Ilgunas
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 7,985 ratings 52. 
Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes
by:
Ted Conover
4.07 avg rating β 1,153 ratings 52. 
Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964-1972 4.10 avg rating β 10 ratings
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Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings
by:
Michelle Knight
4.18 avg rating β 30,092 ratings 54. 
The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
by:
Nina Munk
3.93 avg rating β 1,450 ratings 
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I Was Hungry: Cultivating Common Ground to End an American Crisis
by:
Jeremy K Everett
4.14 avg rating β 116 ratings 58. 
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In the Company of the Poor: Conversations with Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo GutiΓ©rrez
by:
Michael Griffin
4.25 avg rating β 479 ratings 62. 
Wisdom From the Homeless: Lessons a Doctor Learned at a Homeless Shelter
by:
Neil Craton M D
3.80 avg rating β 116 ratings 
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A Shelter Is Not a Home...Or Is It? Lessons from Family Homelessness in New York City 3.56 avg rating β 16 ratings
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Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice
by:
Tony Messenger
4.26 avg rating β 618 ratings 66. 
Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope
by:
Kevin M. Ryan
3.91 avg rating β 279 ratings 66. 
The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (Volume 2) (American Crossroads)
by:
Neil Foley
3.81 avg rating β 118 ratings 
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Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
by:
Stacy Horn
3.64 avg rating β 2,834 ratings 
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Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader (Volume 23)
by:
Paul Farmer
4.36 avg rating β 269 ratings 72. 
Poor and Homeless in the Sunshine State
by:
James D. Wright
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 5 ratings 72. 
Ask Me Why I Hurt: The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them 4.29 avg rating β 2,074 ratings
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The Scandal of Redemption: When God Liberates the Poor, Saves Sinners, and Heals Nations
by:
Oscar Romero
4.46 avg rating β 260 ratings 
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Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets
by:
Lars Eighner
3.76 avg rating β 800 ratings 78. 
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
by:
Virginia Eubanks
4.01 avg rating β 2,737 ratings 80. 
Walk to Beautiful: The Power of Love and a Homeless Kid Who Found the Way
by:
Jimmy Wayne
4.26 avg rating β 5,062 ratings 80. 
Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country
by:
Francesco Duina
3.62 avg rating β 39 ratings 82. 
Homeless at Harvard: Finding Faith and Friendship on the Streets of Harvard Square 3.72 avg rating β 127 ratings
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Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
by:
Jonathan Kozol
4.10 avg rating β 1,846 ratings 84. 
Transfigured: Patricia Sandoval's Escape from Drugs, Homelessness, and the Back Doors of Planned Parenthood 4.68 avg rating β 245 ratings
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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor
by:
Paul Farmer
4.27 avg rating β 4,809 ratings 86. 
Workin' Our Way Home: The Incredible True Story of a Homeless Ex-Con and a Grieving Millionaire Thrown Together to Save Each Other
by:
Ron Hall
4.37 avg rating β 547 ratings 
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From the Ashes: My Story of Being MΓ©tis, Homeless, and Finding My Way
by:
Jesse Thistle
4.49 avg rating β 33,333 ratings 
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The Dead End Kids of St. Louis: Homeless Boys and the People Who Tried to Save Them (Volume 1)
by:
Bonnie Stepenoff
3.95 avg rating β 19 ratings 
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Shantytown, USA: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor
by:
Lisa Goff
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings 94. 
Growing a Garden City: How Farmers, First Graders, Counselors, Troubled Teens, Foodies, a Homeless Shelter Chef, Single Mothers, and More Are Transforming Themselves and Their Neighborhoods Through the Intersection of Local Agriculture and Community
by:
Jeremy N. Smith
3.85 avg rating β 60 ratings 94. 
Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America
by:
Tim Wise
4.09 avg rating β 298 ratings 96. 
A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi
by:
Aman Sethi
3.74 avg rating β 1,149 ratings 
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At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil
by:
Tobias Hecht
3.77 avg rating β 115 ratings 98. 
Dixie's Forgotten People, New Edition: The South's Poor Whites (Minorities in Modern America)
by:
Wayne Flynt
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 19 ratings 100. 