The most popular poverty books of 2024

Books about poverty describe living without enough. Counting coins, cold rooms, hard choices and the tiredness of constant worry are told with dignity, in novels and in first-hand accounts. They show resourcefulness and humor too, and they make it harder to look away. This list shows the ones first published in 2024.

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How to Launch a High-Impact Foundation
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How to Launch a High-Impact Foundation

Joey Savoie, Aidan Alexander, Judith Rensing, Will Troy, Ambitious Impact, Andrea Folds

Published 2024

282 pages

Those Boys
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Those Boys

L. E. Saunders

Published 2024

272 pages

Reducing Intergenerational Poverty
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Reducing Intergenerational Poverty

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on National Statistics, Youth, and Families Board on Children, Committee on Policies and Programs to Reduce Intergenerational Poverty

Published 2024

516 pages

White Poverty
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White Poverty

William J. Barber II

Published 2024

256 pages