Books on Poverty and Inequality
2. 
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by:
Matthew Desmond
4.47 avg rating β 109,920 ratings 3. 
Journey to the West: A Long March from Eastern Dream to Western Reality
by:
Biao Wang
4.27 avg rating β 142 ratings 4. 
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
by:
Stephanie Land
3.86 avg rating β 109,530 ratings 
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Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
by:
Jonathan Kozol
4.25 avg rating β 5,515 ratings 
11. 
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating β 115,039 ratings
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American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare
by:
Jason DeParle
4.06 avg rating β 993 ratings 13. 
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by:
Katherine Boo
3.98 avg rating β 114,811 ratings 
15. 
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by:
J.D. Vance
3.85 avg rating β 488,779 ratings 16. 
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
by:
Matt Taibbi
4.21 avg rating β 7,582 ratings 17. 
Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
by:
Brian Alexander
3.91 avg rating β 1,852 ratings 18. 
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
by:
Mehrsa Baradaran
4.47 avg rating β 2,300 ratings 19. 
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
by:
Kathryn J. Edin
3.96 avg rating β 8,643 ratings 
21. 
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
by:
Alex Kotlowitz
4.30 avg rating β 15,925 ratings 22. 
The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy 3.94 avg rating β 497 ratings
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Maid in India: Stories of Inequality and Opportunity Inside Our Homes
by:
Tripti Lahiri
3.72 avg rating β 114 ratings 24. 
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
by:
Nancy Isenberg
3.76 avg rating β 24,553 ratings 
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The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare
by:
Michael B. Katz
3.85 avg rating β 147 ratings 
28. 
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by:
Daron AcemoΔlu
4.09 avg rating β 59,204 ratings 29. 
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
by:
Peter Singer
4.15 avg rating β 6,711 ratings 
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The Age of Selfishness: Ayn Rand, Morality, and the Financial Crisis 4.02 avg rating β 1,023 ratings
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The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
by:
Tracie McMillan
3.59 avg rating β 3,513 ratings 34. 
The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black AmericansβAnd How We Can Fix It
by:
Dorothy A. Brown
4.25 avg rating β 1,835 ratings 36. 
The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
by:
Nina Munk
3.93 avg rating β 1,450 ratings 37. 
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
by:
Jeffrey D. Sachs
3.69 avg rating β 11,196 ratings 38. 
Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage
by:
Kathryn J. Edin
4.01 avg rating β 1,372 ratings 
40. 
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor
by:
Paul Farmer
4.27 avg rating β 4,809 ratings 40. 
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
by:
Virginia Eubanks
4.01 avg rating β 2,737 ratings 42. 
Taxing the Poor: Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged (Wildavsky Forum Series) (Volume 7) 3.77 avg rating β 39 ratings
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The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives
by:
Sasha Abramsky
3.64 avg rating β 853 ratings 44. 
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Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America 3.90 avg rating β 902 ratings
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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 48. 
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
by:
Jessica Bruder
4.03 avg rating β 49,872 ratings 49. 
"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now": The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages
by:
Annelise Orleck
3.69 avg rating β 108 ratings 50. 
Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States 4.50 avg rating β 6 ratings
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When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
by:
Steve Corbett
4.20 avg rating β 13,903 ratings 
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THE RACE: Whatβs wrong with capitalism and how to fix it
by:
Luther Wissa
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 3 ratings 55. 
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by:
Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating β 73,869 ratings 57. 
Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
by:
Jonathan Kozol
4.10 avg rating β 1,846 ratings 58. 
The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy 4.33 avg rating β 3,091 ratings
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Citizens without Shelter: Homelessness, Democracy, and Political Exclusion 3.55 avg rating β 11 ratings
60. 
So Rich, So Poor: Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America
by:
Peter Edelman
3.65 avg rating β 231 ratings 
63. 
Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
by:
Sudhir Venkatesh
3.73 avg rating β 827 ratings 64. 
Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity
by:
Ronald J. Sider
4.06 avg rating β 2,884 ratings 65. 
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
by:
Ira Katznelson
4.13 avg rating β 2,017 ratings 65. 
The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
by:
Jennifer Toth
3.67 avg rating β 5,375 ratings 
67. 
Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964-1972 4.10 avg rating β 10 ratings
69. 
America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
by:
Jim Wallis
4.07 avg rating β 1,728 ratings 69. 
Keeping the Dream Alive: The Cases and Causes of the Southern Poverty Law Center really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
69. 
Poverty, Politics, and Race: The View From Down Here it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
69. 
The Value of Homelessness: Managing Surplus Life in the United States
by:
Willse
3.80 avg rating β 50 ratings 69. 
76. 
The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty
by:
Jill Quadagno
4.15 avg rating β 87 ratings 76. 
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism 4.45 avg rating β 5,505 ratings
76. 
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by:
Cathy O'Neil
3.87 avg rating β 29,310 ratings 
80. 
The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
by:
Karen Piper
3.83 avg rating β 156 ratings 
81. 
Aftershock(Inequality for All--Movie Tie-in Edition): The Next Economy and America's Future
by:
Robert B. Reich
4.21 avg rating β 168 ratings 83. 
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America 4.44 avg rating β 44,178 ratings
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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
by:
Andrea Elliott
4.70 avg rating β 18,455 ratings 85. 
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
by:
Eyal Press
4.16 avg rating β 1,718 ratings 86. 
White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality
by:
Sheryll Cashin
4.25 avg rating β 176 ratings 87. 
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
by:
Eric Klinenberg
3.97 avg rating β 5,123 ratings 88. 
Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships
by:
Clare Huntington
4.44 avg rating β 16 ratings 88. 
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating β 7,034 ratings
88. 
Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good
by:
Chuck Collins
4.18 avg rating β 436 ratings 
88. 
Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters
by:
Gleb Tsipursky
4.14 avg rating β 252 ratings 88. 
Juror Number 2: The Story of a Murder, the Agony of a Neighborhood
by:
Efrem Sigel
3.37 avg rating β 54 ratings 88. 
Thriving While Black: The Act of Surviving and Thriving in the same space 3.78 avg rating β 9 ratings
88. 
The Rise of Technosocialism: How Inequality, AI and Climate will Usher in a New World
by:
Brett King
4.21 avg rating β 67 ratings 
88. 
Wind of Change: An American Journey in Post-Soviet Russia
by:
Kenneth Maher
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 33 ratings