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Ingram

von Louis C.K.

A boy walks across a near-future America, carrying a brother's death he cannot remember.

4.12

2.000+

Belletristik

Coming of Age

Literatur

Immersiv

Ingram

A boy walks across a near-future America, carrying a brother's death he cannot remember.

von Louis C.K. 2025 288 Seiten

4.12

2.000+ Bewertungen

Belletristik

Coming of Age

Literatur

Hillbilly Elegy

von J.D. Vance • 2016

Poverty teaches a lesson that keeps you poor: your effort doesn't matter.

3.83

500.000+

Memoiren

Soziologie

Armut

Immersiv

Hillbilly Elegy

Poverty teaches a lesson that keeps you poor: your effort doesn't matter.

von J.D. Vance 2016 274 Seiten

3.83

500.000+ Bewertungen

Memoiren

Soziologie

Armut

Warum Nationen scheitern

von Daron Acemoğlu • 2012

If geography explained wealth, North and South Korea would be the same country.

4.09

64.000+

Wirtschaft

Politik

Geschichte

Warum Nationen scheitern

If geography explained wealth, North and South Korea would be the same country.

von Daron Acemoğlu 2012 544 Seiten

4.09

64.000+ Bewertungen

Wirtschaft

Politik

Geschichte

Scarcity

von Sendhil Mullainathan • 2013

The psychology that sharpens focus under a deadline also traps the poor, lonely, and busy.

3.94

7.000+

Psychologie

Wirtschaft

Soziologie

Scarcity

The psychology that sharpens focus under a deadline also traps the poor, lonely, and busy.

von Sendhil Mullainathan 2013 304 Seiten

3.94

7.000+ Bewertungen

Psychologie

Wirtschaft

Soziologie

Dead Aid

von Dambisa Moyo • 2009

Trillions in aid made Africa poorer. The remedy: trade, markets, and a hard deadline.

3.70

8.000+

Wirtschaft

Afrika

Development

Dead Aid

Trillions in aid made Africa poorer. The remedy: trade, markets, and a hard deadline.

von Dambisa Moyo 2009 188 Seiten

3.70

8.000+ Bewertungen

Wirtschaft

Afrika

Development

Evicted

von Matthew Desmond • 2016

Poverty isn't the cause of eviction. Eviction is the cause of poverty, and the market profits.

4.47

100.000+

Soziologie

Soziale Gerechtigkeit

Armut

Evicted

Poverty isn't the cause of eviction. Eviction is the cause of poverty, and the market profits.

von Matthew Desmond 2016 418 Seiten

4.47

100.000+ Bewertungen

Soziologie

Soziale Gerechtigkeit

Armut

From the Ashes

von Jesse Thistle • 2019

Addiction took his home and nearly his leg. His lost Métis identity showed him another way.

4.49

34.000+

Memoiren

Indigen

Kanada

From the Ashes

Addiction took his home and nearly his leg. His lost Métis identity showed him another way.

von Jesse Thistle 2019 384 Seiten

4.49

34.000+ Bewertungen

Memoiren

Indigen

Kanada

I Will Always Write Back

von Caitlin Alifirenka • 2015

A 12-year-old picked Zimbabwe off a list. The letter she sent changed two worlds.

4.38

30.000+

Memoiren

Biografie

Freundschaft

I Will Always Write Back

A 12-year-old picked Zimbabwe off a list. The letter she sent changed two worlds.

von Caitlin Alifirenka 2015 393 Seiten

4.38

30.000+ Bewertungen

Memoiren

Biografie

Freundschaft

A Street Cat Named Bob

von James Bowen • 2012

An injured ginger stray saves a struggling busker from heroin, one shoulder ride at a time.

3.99

60.000+

Tiere

Memoiren

Katzen

A Street Cat Named Bob

An injured ginger stray saves a struggling busker from heroin, one shoulder ride at a time.

von James Bowen 2012 280 Seiten

3.99

60.000+ Bewertungen

Tiere

Memoiren

Katzen

Poor Economics

von Abhijit V. Banerjee • 2011

Poverty is not one problem but many small ones. Randomized trials reveal which fixes actually work.

4.27

24.000+

Wirtschaft

Soziologie

Politik

Poor Economics

Poverty is not one problem but many small ones. Randomized trials reveal which fixes actually work.

von Abhijit V. Banerjee 2011 320 Seiten

4.27

24.000+ Bewertungen

Wirtschaft

Soziologie

Politik

Heart Bones

von Colleen Hoover • 2020

Two guarded strangers agree to one summer with no strings. But the truth will pull them under.

4.20

600.000+

Liebesroman

Gegenwartsliteratur

New Adult

Heart Bones

Two guarded strangers agree to one summer with no strings. But the truth will pull them under.

von Colleen Hoover 2020 338 Seiten

4.20

600.000+ Bewertungen

Liebesroman

Gegenwartsliteratur

New Adult

Die unterste Milliarde

von Paul Collier • 2007

Four traps keep a billion people poor, and the usual remedies only tighten them.

3.85

8.000+

Wirtschaft

Armut

Politik

Die unterste Milliarde

Four traps keep a billion people poor, and the usual remedies only tighten them.

von Paul Collier 2007 224 Seiten

3.85

8.000+ Bewertungen

Wirtschaft

Armut

Politik

The Glass Castle

von Jeannette Walls • 2005

She was three when her dress burst into flames. Her parents called it an adventure.

4.33

1.000.000+

Memoiren

Buchclub

Familie

The Glass Castle

She was three when her dress burst into flames. Her parents called it an adventure.

von Jeannette Walls 2005 288 Seiten

4.33

1.000.000+ Bewertungen

Memoiren

Buchclub

Familie

The Price of Inequality

von Joseph E. Stiglitz • 2012

Inequality isn't a market accident. The 1% rewrote the rules, and democracy is the casualty.

4.02

9.000+

Wirtschaft

Politik

Soziologie

The Price of Inequality

Inequality isn't a market accident. The 1% rewrote the rules, and democracy is the casualty.

von Joseph E. Stiglitz 2012 414 Seiten

4.02

9.000+ Bewertungen

Wirtschaft

Politik

Soziologie

Die Elenden

von Victor Hugo • 1862

An ex-convict breaks parole to rebuild his life, but an obsessive inspector gives him no peace.

4.21

800.000+

Klassiker

Historischer Roman

Literatur

Die Elenden

An ex-convict breaks parole to rebuild his life, but an obsessive inspector gives him no peace.

von Victor Hugo 1862 1463 Seiten

4.21

800.000+ Bewertungen

Klassiker

Historischer Roman

Literatur

Der Junge, der den Wind einfing

von William Kamkwamba • 2009

A Malawian dropout, a library book on energy, and a windmill built from scrap metal.

4.24

11.000+

Biografie

Memoiren

Wissenschaft

Der Junge, der den Wind einfing

A Malawian dropout, a library book on energy, and a windmill built from scrap metal.

von William Kamkwamba 2009 304 Seiten

4.24

11.000+ Bewertungen

Biografie

Memoiren

Wissenschaft

My Sweet Orange Tree

von José Mauro de Vasconcelos • 1968

A Brazilian boy talks to an orange tree until an old man teaches him what love is.

4.38

86.000+

Klassiker

Literatur

Romane

My Sweet Orange Tree

A Brazilian boy talks to an orange tree until an old man teaches him what love is.

von José Mauro de Vasconcelos 1968 208 Seiten

4.38

86.000+ Bewertungen

Klassiker

Literatur

Romane

Invisible Child

von Andrea Elliott • 2021

Born homeless in Brooklyn, Dasani gets one shot: a boarding school that accepts one in ten.

4.70

19.000+

Geschichte

Biografie

Soziale Gerechtigkeit

Invisible Child

Born homeless in Brooklyn, Dasani gets one shot: a boarding school that accepts one in ten.

von Andrea Elliott 2021 640 Seiten

4.70

19.000+ Bewertungen

Geschichte

Biografie

Soziale Gerechtigkeit

Enrique's Journey

von Sonia Nazario • 2005

A boy crosses Mexico atop freight trains, chasing the mother who left when he was five.

3.88

17.000+

Biografie

Politik

Soziologie

Enrique's Journey

A boy crosses Mexico atop freight trains, chasing the mother who left when he was five.

von Sonia Nazario 2005 294 Seiten

3.88

17.000+ Bewertungen

Biografie

Politik

Soziologie

Reading with Patrick

von Michelle Kuo • 2017

Her student was in jail for murder. She returned to the Delta with books.

4.16

6.000+

Memoiren

Bildung

Ethnie

Reading with Patrick

Her student was in jail for murder. She returned to the Delta with books.

von Michelle Kuo 2017 296 Seiten

4.16

6.000+ Bewertungen

Memoiren

Bildung

Ethnie

How to Kill a City

von Peter Moskowitz • 2017

Four cities, one playbook: policy and profit, not hipsters, push out the poor and replace them.

4.07

3.000+

Soziologie

Politik

Wirtschaft

How to Kill a City

Four cities, one playbook: policy and profit, not hipsters, push out the poor and replace them.

von Peter Moskowitz 2017 272 Seiten

4.07

3.000+ Bewertungen

Soziologie

Politik

Wirtschaft

No Fixed Address

von Susin Nielsen • 2018

A twelve-year-old trivia whiz hides his homelessness, but a game show could unravel his secret.

4.22

5.000+

Kinderliteratur

Jugendbuch

Gegenwartsliteratur

No Fixed Address

A twelve-year-old trivia whiz hides his homelessness, but a game show could unravel his secret.

von Susin Nielsen 2018 288 Seiten

4.22

5.000+ Bewertungen

Kinderliteratur

Jugendbuch

Gegenwartsliteratur

Undisputed Truth

von Mike Tyson • 2013

A bullied kid from Brooklyn becomes the youngest heavyweight champion, then watches it all burn.

4.17

11.000+

Biografie

Sport

Autobiografie

Undisputed Truth

A bullied kid from Brooklyn becomes the youngest heavyweight champion, then watches it all burn.

von Mike Tyson 2013 592 Seiten

4.17

11.000+ Bewertungen

Biografie

Sport

Autobiografie

Life at the Bottom

von Theodore Dalrymple • 2001

Poverty didn't wreck the underclass. A set of ideas did—and intellectuals handed them down.

4.23

4.000+

Soziologie

Politik

Philosophie

Life at the Bottom

Poverty didn't wreck the underclass. A set of ideas did—and intellectuals handed them down.

von Theodore Dalrymple 2001 284 Seiten

4.23

4.000+ Bewertungen

Soziologie

Politik

Philosophie

Maid

von Stephanie Land • 2019

A single mother cleans houses while barely holding onto her own: life inside the working poor.

3.86

100.000+

Memoiren

Soziologie

Armut

Maid

A single mother cleans houses while barely holding onto her own: life inside the working poor.

von Stephanie Land 2019 270 Seiten

3.86

100.000+ Bewertungen

Memoiren

Soziologie

Armut

Gang Leader for a Day

von Sudhir Venkatesh • 2008

A sociologist ran a Chicago gang for a day. The books were cleaner than he expected.

4.07

25.000+

Memoiren

Krimi

True Crime

Gang Leader for a Day

A sociologist ran a Chicago gang for a day. The books were cleaner than he expected.

von Sudhir Venkatesh 2008 332 Seiten

4.07

25.000+ Bewertungen

Memoiren

Krimi

True Crime

Demon Copperhead

von Barbara Kingsolver • 2022

Born to an addict mother, Demon navigates Appalachian foster care and the opioid epidemic.

4.46

800.000+

Belletristik

Gegenwartsliteratur

Coming of Age

Demon Copperhead

Born to an addict mother, Demon navigates Appalachian foster care and the opioid epidemic.

von Barbara Kingsolver 2022 560 Seiten

4.46

800.000+ Bewertungen

Belletristik

Gegenwartsliteratur

Coming of Age

Bitita's Diary

von Carolina Maria de Jesus • 1960

Seven years old, Black, and poor in rural Brazil: learning to read became her revenge.

4.49

10.000+

Memoiren

Biografie

Brasilien

Bitita's Diary

Seven years old, Black, and poor in rural Brazil: learning to read became her revenge.

von Carolina Maria de Jesus 1960 180 Seiten

4.49

10.000+ Bewertungen

Memoiren

Biografie

Brasilien

Shuggie Bain

von Douglas Stuart • 2020

For young Shuggie Bain, saving his glamorous, alcoholic mother is the only life he knows.

4.3

100.000+

Belletristik

Historischer Roman

Schottland

Shuggie Bain

For young Shuggie Bain, saving his glamorous, alcoholic mother is the only life he knows.

von Douglas Stuart 2020 430 Seiten

4.3

100.000+ Bewertungen

Belletristik

Historischer Roman

Schottland

American Made

von Farah Stockman • 2021

Three factory workers lost their jobs to Mexico. What they lost next surprised everyone but them.

4.31

1.000+

Soziologie

Wirtschaft

Politik

American Made

Three factory workers lost their jobs to Mexico. What they lost next surprised everyone but them.

von Farah Stockman 2021 432 Seiten

4.31

1.000+ Bewertungen

Soziologie

Wirtschaft

Politik

Tattoos on the Heart

von Gregory Boyle • 2009

Gang programs fail because they're conditional. One LA priest bet on love that refuses to quit.

4.49

30.000+

Memoiren

Religion

Spiritualität

Tattoos on the Heart

Gang programs fail because they're conditional. One LA priest bet on love that refuses to quit.

von Gregory Boyle 2009 240 Seiten

4.49

30.000+ Bewertungen

Memoiren

Religion

Spiritualität

Profit and Punishment

von Tony Messenger • 2021

When courts depend on fines to stay open, the poor become the revenue.

4.26

500+

Politik

Soziale Gerechtigkeit

Recht

Profit and Punishment

When courts depend on fines to stay open, the poor become the revenue.

von Tony Messenger 2021 260 Seiten

4.26

500+ Bewertungen

Politik

Soziale Gerechtigkeit

Recht

Angela's Ashes

von Frank McCourt • 1996

Three dead siblings, a father who drinks the dole, and one boy's plan to reach America.

4.15

600.000+

Memoiren

Autobiografie

Biografie

Angela's Ashes

Three dead siblings, a father who drinks the dole, and one boy's plan to reach America.

von Frank McCourt 1996 452 Seiten

4.15

600.000+ Bewertungen

Memoiren

Autobiografie

Biografie

Poverty Safari

von Darren McGarvey • 2017

Poverty isn't just broke. It's trauma, addiction, and a mind that fights its own rescue.

4.01

6.000+

Politik

Memoiren

Soziologie

Poverty Safari

Poverty isn't just broke. It's trauma, addiction, and a mind that fights its own rescue.

von Darren McGarvey 2017 257 Seiten

4.01

6.000+ Bewertungen

Politik

Memoiren

Soziologie

The Mystery Of Capital

von Hernando de Soto • 2000

$9.3 trillion: what the world's poor already own and cannot borrow a dime against.

3.99

4.000+

Wirtschaft

Politik

Business

The Mystery Of Capital

$9.3 trillion: what the world's poor already own and cannot borrow a dime against.

von Hernando de Soto 2000 276 Seiten

3.99

4.000+ Bewertungen

Wirtschaft

Politik

Business

Money Hungry

von Sharon G. Flake • 2001

Raspberry's money obsession is a wall she builds against the homelessness she barely escaped.

4.10

4.000+

Jugendbuch

Kinderliteratur

Gegenwartsliteratur

Money Hungry

Raspberry's money obsession is a wall she builds against the homelessness she barely escaped.

von Sharon G. Flake 2001 188 Seiten

4.10

4.000+ Bewertungen

Jugendbuch

Kinderliteratur

Gegenwartsliteratur

The New Urban Crisis

von Richard Florida • 2017

Why urban revival is driving inequality and pushing out the middle class.

3.49

1.000+

Wirtschaft

Soziologie

Städte

The New Urban Crisis

Why urban revival is driving inequality and pushing out the middle class.

von Richard Florida 2017 336 Seiten

3.49

1.000+ Bewertungen

Wirtschaft

Soziologie

Städte

No and Me

von Delphine de Vigan • 2007

A thirteen-year-old prodigy, too anxious to speak, meets a homeless girl and finds her voice.

3.72

20.000+

Jugendbuch

Gegenwartsliteratur

Frankreich

No and Me

A thirteen-year-old prodigy, too anxious to speak, meets a homeless girl and finds her voice.

von Delphine de Vigan 2007 256 Seiten

3.72

20.000+ Bewertungen

Jugendbuch

Gegenwartsliteratur

Frankreich

An Invisible Thread

von Laura Schroff • 2010

A New York executive buys a hungry boy lunch; the Monday ritual reshapes both their lives.

4.07

48.000+

Memoiren

Inspirierend

Buchclub

An Invisible Thread

A New York executive buys a hungry boy lunch; the Monday ritual reshapes both their lives.

von Laura Schroff 2010 260 Seiten

4.07

48.000+ Bewertungen

Memoiren

Inspirierend

Buchclub

Outcasts United

von Warren St. John • 2009

War refugees, a parking lot soccer team, one coach, and the Georgia town forced to change.

3.84

8.000+

Sport

Fußball

Soziologie

Outcasts United

War refugees, a parking lot soccer team, one coach, and the Georgia town forced to change.

von Warren St. John 2009 240 Seiten

3.84

8.000+ Bewertungen

Sport

Fußball

Soziologie

The Trouble with Diversity

von Walter Benn Michaels • 2006

The left traded class war for culture war, and the rich couldn't believe their luck.

3.59

500+

Politik

Soziologie

Wirtschaft

The Trouble with Diversity

The left traded class war for culture war, and the rich couldn't believe their luck.

von Walter Benn Michaels 2006 256 Seiten

3.59

500+ Bewertungen

Politik

Soziologie

Wirtschaft

Hillbilly Elegy

von J.D. Vance • 2016

Escaping Appalachia wasn't about money; it was about cracking a hidden code.

3.83

500.000+

Memoiren

Autobiografie

Soziologie

Hillbilly Elegy

Escaping Appalachia wasn't about money; it was about cracking a hidden code.

von J.D. Vance 2016 264 Seiten

3.83

500.000+ Bewertungen

Memoiren

Autobiografie

Soziologie

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised

von Carmelo Anthony • 2021

Grief unnamed, a mother's open door, a blacktop sanctuary: surviving the projects before the NBA.

4.07

1.000+

Memoiren

Sport

Biografie

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised

Grief unnamed, a mother's open door, a blacktop sanctuary: surviving the projects before the NBA.

von Carmelo Anthony 2021 208 Seiten

4.07

1.000+ Bewertungen

Memoiren

Sport

Biografie

Best Things First

von Bjørn Lomborg • 2023

Saving 4.2 million lives yearly costs $35 billion, if you fund only the most effective policies.

3.90

388

Wirtschaft

Politik

Soziologie

Best Things First

Saving 4.2 million lives yearly costs $35 billion, if you fund only the most effective policies.

von Bjørn Lomborg 2023 314 Seiten

3.90

388 Bewertungen

Wirtschaft

Politik

Soziologie

The White Man's Burden

von William Easterly • 2006

$2.3 trillion in aid left the poorest no better off. A World Bank insider explains why.

3.83

5.000+

Wirtschaft

Politik

Geschichte

The White Man's Burden

$2.3 trillion in aid left the poorest no better off. A World Bank insider explains why.

von William Easterly 2006 443 Seiten

3.83

5.000+ Bewertungen

Wirtschaft

Politik

Geschichte

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

von John Fante • 1938

Starving in a Colorado shack, an Italian bricklayer abandons his family for a widow's bed.

4.10

14.000+

Klassiker

Belletristik

Romane

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

Starving in a Colorado shack, an Italian bricklayer abandons his family for a widow's bed.

von John Fante 1938 266 Seiten

4.10

14.000+ Bewertungen

Klassiker

Belletristik

Romane

Same Kind of Different as Me

von Ron Hall • 2006

An art dealer, a homeless man, and the woman who bound them together. Then cancer came.

4.20

92.000+

Memoiren

Christlich

Inspirierend

Same Kind of Different as Me

An art dealer, a homeless man, and the woman who bound them together. Then cancer came.

von Ron Hall 2006 237 Seiten

4.20

92.000+ Bewertungen

Memoiren

Christlich

Inspirierend

The Sound of Gravel

von Ruth Wariner • 2016

A polygamist prophet's thirty-ninth child: poverty, abuse, her father's murder, and the long escape.

4.31

67.000+

Memoiren

Biografie

Religion

The Sound of Gravel

A polygamist prophet's thirty-ninth child: poverty, abuse, her father's murder, and the long escape.

von Ruth Wariner 2016 336 Seiten

4.31

67.000+ Bewertungen

Memoiren

Biografie

Religion

Fist Stick Knife Gun

von Geoffrey Canada • 1995

Respect was won with fists on Union Avenue. Then guns came and rewrote the rules for everyone.

4.03

3.000+

Memoiren

Soziologie

Ethnie

Fist Stick Knife Gun

Respect was won with fists on Union Avenue. Then guns came and rewrote the rules for everyone.

von Geoffrey Canada 1995 179 Seiten

4.03

3.000+ Bewertungen

Memoiren

Soziologie

Ethnie

This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health

von Nathan Filer • 2019

A nurse turned journalist traces psychosis to its real roots: poverty, trauma, and racism.

4.28

2.000+

Psychologie

Psychische Gesundheit

Wissenschaft

This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health

A nurse turned journalist traces psychosis to its real roots: poverty, trauma, and racism.

von Nathan Filer 2019

4.28

2.000+ Bewertungen

Psychologie

Psychische Gesundheit

Wissenschaft

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