Poverty Books to Read Free Online

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Pick fiction or non-fiction, then a genre, then a topic inside it. A book can sit in more than one genre.

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Poverty

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Sounder

William H. Armstrong

1969 ★ 3.3

Salvage the Bones

Jesmyn Ward

2011 ★ 3.7

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

1839 ★ 4.1

A tree grows in Brooklyn

Betty Smith

1943 ★ 4.4

The Pilgrim's Progress

John Bunyan

1678 ★ 4.3

The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

1881 ★ 3.8

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

1862 ★ 4.3

Hard Times

Charles Dickens

1854 ★ 3.9

White trash

Nancy Isenberg

2016 ★ 3.8

The signature of all things

Elizabeth Gilbert

2013 ★ 4.0

Dead aid

Dambisa Moyo

2010 ★ 3.7

The Inheritance and other stories

Robin Hobb, Megan Lindholm

2011 ★ 3.8

Why Nations Fail

Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson

2012 ★ 3.6

The bottom billion

Paul Collier

2007 ★ 4.0

The midwife

Jennifer Worth

2009 ★ 4.2

Assommoir

Émile Zola

1870 ★ 4.2

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

George Orwell

1956 ★ 3.7

Hand to Mouth

Linda Tirado

2014 ★ 4.3

Joy in the Morning

Betty Smith

2000 ★ 5.0

I Malavoglia di Giovanni Verga

Roger Grass, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Marie Lane et al.

1873 ★ 3.1

Dark Angel

V.C. Andrews

1986 ★ 5.0

The life you can save

Peter Singer

2009 ★ 4.0

If I Grow Up

Todd Strasser

2009 ★ 4.3

The Story of the Treasure Seekers

Edith Nesbit

1899 ★ 4.0

Poverty and development into the 21st century

Thomas, Alan, Tim Allen

2000 ★ 3.2

Fatta Eld

Suzanne Collins

2009 ★ 4.1

Fallen Hearts

V.C. Andrews

1988 ★ 4.3

Nickel and Dimed

Barbara Ehrenreich

2001 ★ 3.6

Behind the beautiful forevers

Katherine Boo

2011 ★ 3.9

The Dutch House

Ann Patchett

2019 ★ 3.8

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Book Explorer lets readers browse the free, readable part of the Open Library catalogue by familiar genres, or by the exact subject tags Open Library assigns each book. Every book has its own page with a reader where one is available, plus links to Open Library, your library, Libby and Amazon.