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The Glass Castle
Loved by 27 people

The Glass Castle

By Jeannette Walls ,

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

By Betty Smith ,

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The White Tiger
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The White Tiger

By Aravind Adiga ,

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles

By Thomas Hardy , Simon Gatrell (editor) , Juliet Grindle (editor)

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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
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Nickel and Dimed

By Barbara Ehrenreich ,

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Bastard Out of Carolina
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Bastard Out of Carolina

By Dorothy Allison ,

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The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
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The Blue Sweater

By Jacqueline Novogratz ,

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Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
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Storming Caesars Palace

By Annelise Orleck ,

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Tyrell
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Tyrell

By Coe Booth ,

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Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
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Dead Aid

By Dambisa Moyo ,

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Reckoning with Homelessness
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Reckoning with Homelessness

By Kim Hopper ,

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Those Shoes
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Those Shoes

By Maribeth Boelts , Noah Z. Jones (illustrator) ,

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Memoirs of a Breton Peasant
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Memoirs of a Breton Peasant

By Jean-Marie Déguignet ,

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The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London
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The Italian Boy

By Sarah Wise ,

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It's All Good
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It's All Good

By Boogie ,

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Becoming Chloe
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Becoming Chloe

By Catherine Ryan Hyde ,

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Can't Get There from Here
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Can't Get There from Here

By Todd Strasser ,

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Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown
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Laughter Out of Place

By Donna M. Goldstein ,

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Sounder
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Sounder

By William H Armstrong ,

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Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
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Off the Books

By Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh ,

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Hard Work: Life in Low-pay Britain
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Hard Work

By Polly Toynbee ,

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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
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How the Other Half Lives

By Jacob A. Riis ,

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The Life You Can Save
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The Life You Can Save

By Peter Singer ,

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Nickel and Dimed
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Nickel and Dimed

By Barbara Ehrenreich ,

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