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
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Way Home

Josephine Ensign

Published 2024

336 pages

Research Handbook on Homelessness
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Research Handbook on Homelessness

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

Published 2024

468 pages

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

The Jungle
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The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

Published 2024

352 pages

Religion And Poverty
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Religion And Poverty

Susan Crawford Sullivan, Stephen Offutt, Shariq Siddiqui

Published 2024