Poverty In Fact And Fiction

1.
The Little Matchgirl
The Little Matchgirl 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
2.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,447 ratings
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The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children, #1)
The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 138,012 ratings
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The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City 3.67 avg rating — 5,379 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol 4.09 avg rating — 896,662 ratings
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The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 257,796 ratings
5.
Les Miserables
Les Miserables 4.21 avg rating — 830,302 ratings
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Down and Out in Paris and London
Down and Out in Paris and London 4.09 avg rating — 97,533 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) 4.35 avg rating — 9,596,835 ratings
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The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1) 4.31 avg rating — 327,491 ratings
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They Twinkled Like Jewels
They Twinkled Like Jewels 3.43 avg rating — 152 ratings
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A Fine Balance
A Fine Balance 4.38 avg rating — 156,868 ratings
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The Family Under the Bridge
The Family Under the Bridge 3.96 avg rating — 16,334 ratings
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A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts
A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts 3.71 avg rating — 17,562 ratings
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The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath 4.02 avg rating — 971,722 ratings
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The Arabian Nights
The Arabian Nights
by: Anonymous
4.03 avg rating — 80,400 ratings
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On Their Own: What Happens To Kids When They Age Out Of The Foster Care System
On Their Own: What Happens To Kids When They Age Out Of The Foster Care System 4.01 avg rating — 219 ratings
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Strumpet City
Strumpet City 4.27 avg rating — 1,907 ratings
18.
The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales 4.23 avg rating — 219,204 ratings
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Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island
Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island 4.31 avg rating — 24,359 ratings
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Blood Brothers
Blood Brothers 3.80 avg rating — 6,821 ratings
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The White Tiger
The White Tiger 3.77 avg rating — 200,104 ratings
21.
Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1) 4.34 avg rating — 228,936 ratings
21.
Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, And The Promise
Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, And The Promise 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself 4.20 avg rating — 13,904 ratings
26.
Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 49,358 ratings
26.
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis 3.85 avg rating — 488,907 ratings
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The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo 4.32 avg rating — 992,227 ratings
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On Social Justice: St. Basil the Great
On Social Justice: St. Basil the Great 4.50 avg rating — 595 ratings
30.
Educated
Educated 4.47 avg rating — 1,773,459 ratings
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Persuasion
Persuasion 4.15 avg rating — 752,919 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City 4.47 avg rating — 109,975 ratings
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The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845 - 1849
The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845 - 1849 4.18 avg rating — 1,247 ratings
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The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,732,514 ratings
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Three Little Words
Three Little Words 4.19 avg rating — 17,211 ratings
36.
The Good People
The Good People 3.82 avg rating — 22,592 ratings
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A Sacrifice to Necessity
A Sacrifice to Necessity
by: Saki
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle 4.32 avg rating — 1,325,852 ratings
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Emmeline
Emmeline 3.80 avg rating — 547 ratings
39.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,319,056 ratings
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The Unkindest Blow
The Unkindest Blow
by: Saki
3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
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After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America
After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America 4.58 avg rating — 1,887 ratings
43.
North and South
North and South 4.15 avg rating — 179,609 ratings
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A Little Princess
A Little Princess 4.23 avg rating — 320,533 ratings
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Children of the Night
Children of the Night 3.70 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Loaves and Fishes
Loaves and Fishes 4.15 avg rating — 532 ratings
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Cry, The Beloved Country: A Story of Comfort in Desolation
Cry, The Beloved Country: A Story of Comfort in Desolation 3.92 avg rating — 78,544 ratings
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The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck
by: Don Rosa
4.68 avg rating — 4,660 ratings
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In the workhouse: Christmas Day
In the workhouse: Christmas Day really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
47.
Children of the State: Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System
Children of the State: Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System 4.04 avg rating — 387 ratings
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Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist 3.88 avg rating — 419,685 ratings
51.
The Death of Mrs. Westaway
The Death of Mrs. Westaway
by: Ruth Ware
3.80 avg rating — 194,137 ratings
51.
An Inspector Calls
An Inspector Calls 3.82 avg rating — 44,076 ratings
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Hard Times
Hard Times 3.55 avg rating — 72,199 ratings
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Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)
Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 28,604 ratings
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The Face on the Barroom Floor
The Face on the Barroom Floor 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity 3.98 avg rating — 114,830 ratings
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The Little Stranger
The Little Stranger 3.57 avg rating — 58,381 ratings
58.
The Cop and the Anthem - play
The Cop and the Anthem - play 3.91 avg rating — 676 ratings
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Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity
Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity 4.06 avg rating — 2,884 ratings
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Twopence to Cross the Mersey
Twopence to Cross the Mersey 4.25 avg rating — 2,170 ratings
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists 4.04 avg rating — 10,248 ratings
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Sharing the Bread of Life: Hospitality and Resistance at the Open Door Community
Sharing the Bread of Life: Hospitality and Resistance at the Open Door Community really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Ballad of Black Tom
The Ballad of Black Tom 3.84 avg rating — 32,632 ratings
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The Song of the Shirt
The Song of the Shirt 3.65 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Shazam!: Origins
Shazam!: Origins 4.08 avg rating — 3,754 ratings
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The Deserted Village
The Deserted Village 3.51 avg rating — 150 ratings
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Assault on Eden: A Memoir of Communal Life in the Early '70s
Assault on Eden: A Memoir of Communal Life in the Early '70s 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Condition of the Working Class in England
The Condition of the Working Class in England 4.03 avg rating — 3,605 ratings
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House of Hospitality
House of Hospitality 4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1) 4.31 avg rating — 304,648 ratings
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The Way to Wealth (Books of American Wisdom)
The Way to Wealth (Books of American Wisdom) 4.09 avg rating — 3,249 ratings
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A Welfare Mother
A Welfare Mother 2.65 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Downbelow Station (The Company Wars, #1)
Downbelow Station (The Company Wars, #1) 3.90 avg rating — 16,169 ratings
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The Violin of Your Soul
The Violin of Your Soul 2.89 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus, 50th Anniversary Edition
Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus, 50th Anniversary Edition 4.48 avg rating — 9,256 ratings
77.
Doctor Who: Free Speech
Doctor Who: Free Speech 4.05 avg rating — 193 ratings
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Father to Nobody's Children: The Life of Thomas J. Barnardo
Father to Nobody's Children: The Life of Thomas J. Barnardo 4.02 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Souvenir
The Souvenir 3.54 avg rating — 41 ratings
80.
All Rights Reserved (Word$, #1)
All Rights Reserved (Word$, #1) 3.66 avg rating — 4,885 ratings
80.
Thrift Store Saints: Meeting Jesus 25¢ at a Time
Thrift Store Saints: Meeting Jesus 25¢ at a Time 4.18 avg rating — 495 ratings
82.
Brown Girl in the Ring
Brown Girl in the Ring 3.85 avg rating — 7,283 ratings
82.
The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives
The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives 3.64 avg rating — 853 ratings
84.
High Level Vol. 1
High Level Vol. 1 3.70 avg rating — 174 ratings
84.
Vincent de Paul: Saint of Charity (Vision Books)
Vincent de Paul: Saint of Charity (Vision Books) 4.15 avg rating — 41 ratings
86.
Battle Angel Alita, Vol. 1
Battle Angel Alita, Vol. 1 4.20 avg rating — 11,495 ratings
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The Long Loneliness: An Autobiography
The Long Loneliness: An Autobiography 4.02 avg rating — 5,537 ratings
88.
The Rent Collector
The Rent Collector 4.27 avg rating — 56,706 ratings
89.
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century 4.03 avg rating — 49,880 ratings
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$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America 3.96 avg rating — 8,642 ratings
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Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage
Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage 4.01 avg rating — 1,372 ratings
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Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard 4.22 avg rating — 21,747 ratings
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Thrift Store Graces: Finding God's Gifts in the Midst of the Mess
Thrift Store Graces: Finding God's Gifts in the Midst of the Mess 4.06 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Living More Simply
Living More Simply 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Traveling Light: On the Road with America's Poor
Traveling Light: On the Road with America's Poor 3.64 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Mama Maggie: The Untold Story of One Woman's Mission to Love the Forgotten Children of Egypt's Garbage Slums
Mama Maggie: The Untold Story of One Woman's Mission to Love the Forgotten Children of Egypt's Garbage Slums 4.07 avg rating — 499 ratings