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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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3.65 avg rating — 194,740 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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4.47 avg rating — 110,928 ratings
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Journey to the West: A Long March from Eastern Dream to Western Reality
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4.27 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
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3.86 avg rating — 110,320 ratings
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The Working Poor: Invisible in America
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4.04 avg rating — 5,710 ratings
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Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
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4.26 avg rating — 5,522 ratings
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Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
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4.50 avg rating — 922 ratings
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Just Mercy
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4.62 avg rating — 256,316 ratings
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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
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3.42 avg rating — 10,445 ratings
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Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America
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3.58 avg rating — 6,045 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 115,557 ratings
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American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare
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4.06 avg rating — 995 ratings
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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3.98 avg rating — 115,340 ratings
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Poverty, by America
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4.27 avg rating — 57,778 ratings
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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3.84 avg rating — 492,592 ratings
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The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
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4.21 avg rating — 7,589 ratings
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Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
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3.91 avg rating — 1,860 ratings
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The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
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4.47 avg rating — 2,310 ratings
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$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
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3.96 avg rating — 8,681 ratings
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Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
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3.59 avg rating — 7,462 ratings
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There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
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4.30 avg rating — 15,970 ratings
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The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy
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3.94 avg rating — 497 ratings
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Maid in India: Stories of Inequality and Opportunity Inside Our Homes
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3.72 avg rating — 114 ratings
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
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3.76 avg rating — 24,703 ratings
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Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail
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4.12 avg rating — 517 ratings
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The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare
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3.85 avg rating — 147 ratings
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The Other America: Poverty in the United States
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4.06 avg rating — 1,192 ratings
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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4.09 avg rating — 60,113 ratings
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The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
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4.15 avg rating — 6,768 ratings
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Dystopia: How The Tyranny of Specialists Fragment African Cities
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3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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4.09 avg rating — 98,407 ratings
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The Age of Selfishness: Ayn Rand, Morality, and the Financial Crisis
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4.02 avg rating — 1,031 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 414,976 ratings
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The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
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3.59 avg rating — 3,511 ratings
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The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It
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4.25 avg rating — 1,843 ratings
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The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
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3.93 avg rating — 1,453 ratings
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
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3.69 avg rating — 11,203 ratings
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Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage
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4.01 avg rating — 1,374 ratings
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When Work Disappears : The World of the New Urban Poor
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3.87 avg rating — 713 ratings
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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor
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4.27 avg rating — 4,818 ratings
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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
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4.01 avg rating — 2,754 ratings
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Taxing the Poor: Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged (Wildavsky Forum Series) (Volume 7)
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3.77 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives
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3.65 avg rating — 855 ratings
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The Visible Poor: Homelessness in the United States
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4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare
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4.23 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America
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3.91 avg rating — 907 ratings
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Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America
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4.09 avg rating — 299 ratings
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
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4.03 avg rating — 50,057 ratings
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"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now": The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages
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3.71 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States
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4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
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4.20 avg rating — 13,939 ratings
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Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
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4.04 avg rating — 4,301 ratings
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On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
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3.82 avg rating — 3,352 ratings
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THE RACE: What’s wrong with capitalism and how to fix it
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams
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4.10 avg rating — 919 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.93 avg rating — 74,079 ratings
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Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
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4.10 avg rating — 1,851 ratings
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The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
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4.33 avg rating — 3,166 ratings
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Citizens without Shelter: Homelessness, Democracy, and Political Exclusion
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3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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So Rich, So Poor: Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America
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3.65 avg rating — 231 ratings
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Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China
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3.98 avg rating — 632 ratings
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Sounder
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3.97 avg rating — 31,230 ratings
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Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
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3.73 avg rating — 829 ratings
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Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity
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4.06 avg rating — 2,892 ratings
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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
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4.13 avg rating — 2,030 ratings
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The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
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3.67 avg rating — 5,394 ratings
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Merchants of Misery: How Corporate America Profits From Poverty
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3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964-1972
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4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
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4.07 avg rating — 1,733 ratings
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Keeping the Dream Alive: The Cases and Causes of the Southern Poverty Law Center
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Poverty, Politics, and Race: The View From Down Here
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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How to House the Homeless
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4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Value of Homelessness: Managing Surplus Life in the United States
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3.80 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Making Room: The Economics of Homelessness
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4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Down and Out, on the Road: The Homeless in American History
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3.73 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty
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4.16 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
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4.45 avg rating — 5,531 ratings
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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3.87 avg rating — 29,484 ratings
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Silent Voices: People With Mental Disorders on the Street
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4.29 avg rating — 75 ratings
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The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
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3.83 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Invisible Man
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3.92 avg rating — 199,530 ratings
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Aftershock(Inequality for All--Movie Tie-in Edition): The Next Economy and America's Future
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4.21 avg rating — 168 ratings
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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4.44 avg rating — 44,584 ratings
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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
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4.70 avg rating — 18,676 ratings
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Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
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4.16 avg rating — 1,735 ratings
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White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality
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4.24 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
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3.97 avg rating — 5,180 ratings
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Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships
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4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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4.49 avg rating — 915,595 ratings
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The Journey Home: A Memoir
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4.12 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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4.38 avg rating — 7,053 ratings
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Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good
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4.18 avg rating — 438 ratings
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How To Talk To Black People
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3.88 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters
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4.13 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Juror Number 2: The Story of a Murder, the Agony of a Neighborhood
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3.37 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Thriving While Black: The Act of Surviving and Thriving in the same space
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3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Fourth Circle of Hell
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3.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Rise of Technosocialism: How Inequality, AI and Climate will Usher in a New World
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4.17 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Essays on Wealth, Generosity, and Legacy
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Wind of Change: An American Journey in Post-Soviet Russia
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4.03 avg rating — 34 ratings
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