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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Way Home
Cover of Way Home

Way Home

Josephine Ensign

Published 2024

336 pages

Research Handbook on Homelessness
Cover of Research Handbook on Homelessness

Research Handbook on Homelessness

Guy Johnson, Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Eoin O'Sullivan, Dennis Culhane, Stephen Metraux

Published 2024

468 pages