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  • Johannes Lenhard The best books to understand poverty today, from the bottom up Book cover of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Book cover of On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City Book cover of Righteous Dopefiend Book cover of Demon Copperhead Book cover of Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
  • Penny Lane The best books about people breaking from their pasts to claim their lives back Book cover of Bastard Out of Carolina Book cover of Running with Scissors: A Memoir Book cover of The Glass Castle Book cover of Educated: A Memoir Book cover of Demon Copperhead
  • Troy Tassier The five best books that connect poor health and poverty Book cover of Poverty, by America Book cover of The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America Book cover of Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues Book cover of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism Book cover of Demon Copperhead
  • Maria Foscarinis The best books about homelessness, social (in)justice and why they matter for us all Book cover of Beyond Charity Book cover of Poverty, by America Book cover of Nickel and Dimed Book cover of Reckoning with Homelessness Book cover of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
  • Dorothy J. Solinger The best books on poverty and social welfare in the US and China Book cover of Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People Book cover of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Book cover of The Specter of "the People": Urban Poverty in Northeast China Book cover of Trapped in America's Safety Net: One Family's Struggle Book cover of The Undeserving Poor: America's Enduring Confrontation with Poverty
  • Cea Sunrise Person The best stories about resiliency Book cover of The Glass Castle Book cover of Angela's Ashes Book cover of Man’s Search for Meaning Book cover of The Call of the Wild Book cover of Diary of a Wimpy Kid
  • Connie King Leonard The best novels about teen homelessness and poverty Book cover of Find Layla Book cover of In the Wild Light Book cover of Becoming Chloe Book cover of Can't Get There from Here Book cover of Homecoming
  • Marlayna Glynn The best memoirs on surviving traumatic childhoods Book cover of Angela's Ashes Book cover of Another Hill and Sometimes a Mountain Book cover of The Splendid Things We Planned - A Family Portrait Book cover of The Tender Bar: A Memoir Book cover of The Glass Castle
  • Kerri Schlottman The best books about fierce female protagonists Book cover of Sun Don't Shine Book cover of Akmaral Book cover of Alice the Cat Book cover of Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth Book cover of Fight Night
  • Judy Sheer Watters The most memorable memoirs that speak to you Book cover of Your Pain is Not a Waste Book cover of Finding True Freedom: From the White House to the World Book cover of Night Book cover of Angela's Ashes Book cover of The Glass Castle
  • Ruth Badley The best memoirs about troubled families and the secrets they keep Book cover of House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family Book cover of Lowborn Book cover of The Life of Stuff Book cover of A Book of Untruths Book cover of The Glass Castle
  • Roxanna Asgarian The best books to understand how our systems are failing our most vulnerable children—and to imagine a better way Book cover of Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World Book cover of Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City Book cover of Bastard Out of Carolina Book cover of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Book cover of Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
  • Mckay Jenkins The best books to understand environmental justice and the environmental humanities Book cover of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants Book cover of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Book cover of Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt Book cover of Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape Book cover of Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
  • Caitlin Hicks The best coming-of-age books that explore belonging, identity, family, and beat with an emotional and/or humorous pulse Book cover of Angela's Ashes Book cover of Lullabies for Little Criminals Book cover of Indian Horse Book cover of The Glass Castle
  • Jeremy Seabrook The best books on poor people in India that engages with their daily life Book cover of The Gift of a Cow: A Translation of the Classic Hindi Novel Godaan Book cover of Everybody Loves a Good Drought Book cover of The White Tiger Book cover of Coolie Book cover of Walking with the Comrades
  • Deborah K. Padgett The best books on homelessness: separating myths from reality Book cover of Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns Book cover of Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing Book cover of Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles Book cover of Poverty, by America Book cover of Reckoning with Homelessness
  • Traci Medford-Rosow The best books about homelessness and poverty Book cover of Same Kind of Different As Me Book cover of Breaking Night Book cover of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Book cover of This Is All I Got: A New Mother's Search for Home Book cover of Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
  • Aili Mari Tripp The best books on the economy as if people mattered Book cover of The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio De Janeiro Book cover of They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria Book cover of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Book cover of We Are Poor but So Many: The Story of Self-Employed Women in India Book cover of Stealth Of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy
  • Ángela Vergara The best books on the history of the welfare state Book cover of Women Build the Welfare State: Performing Charity and Creating Rights in Argentina, 1880-1955 Book cover of Inventing the Needy: Gender and the Politics of Welfare in Hungary Book cover of Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits Book cover of Rethinking the Welfare Rights Movement Book cover of Patients of the State: The Politics of Waiting in Argentina
  • Ali Smith The best books about New York City subcultures Book cover of The Mole People Book cover of St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street Book cover of How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York Book cover of Slaves of New York Book cover of The Glass Castle
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