The most popular poverty books of 2025

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 2025.

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The Workers
Cover of The Workers

The Workers

Walter A. (Walter Augustus) Wyckoff

Published 2025

188 pages

Hope Restored
Cover of Hope Restored

Hope Restored

Katie Sutton, Madison Salamanca, Katie Grunow

Published 2025

190 pages

What Shall We Do?
Cover of What Shall We Do?

What Shall We Do?

Isabella Fyvie Mayo, graf Leo Tolstoy, A. C. (Arthur Charles) Fifield

Published 2025

264 pages