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Adults’ Book Recommendations:
Voices of those Experiencing Poverty and Homelessness
Fiction
- Lisa Wingate
- Tupelo Hassman
- Jennifer Clement
- Ishmael Beah
- Jesmyn Ward
- Lynn Steger Strong
Nonfiction
$2.00 A Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
- Kathryn Edin
The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives
- Sasha Abramsky
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
- Matt Taibbi
- Tara Westover
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
- Matthew Desmond
- Jeannette Walls
Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America
- Linda Tirado
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- J.D. Vance
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and A Mother’s Will to Survive
- Stephanie Land
Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Getting by in America
- Barbara Ehrenreich
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-first Century
- Jessica Bruder
Not A Crime to be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America
- Peter B. Edelman
On the Clock: What Low-wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
- Emily Guendelsberger
The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto
- Tavis Smiley
This Is All I Got: A New Mother’s Search for Home
- Lauren Sandler
Those Who Wander: America’s Lost Street Kids
- Vivian Ho
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
- Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn
- Thomas Shapiro
Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets
- Lars Eighner
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
- Nancy Isenberg