Sounder

William H. Armstrong

1969 ★ 3.3

Salvage the Bones

Jesmyn Ward

2011 ★ 3.7

A tree grows in Brooklyn

Betty Smith

1943 ★ 4.4

The Pilgrim's Progress

John Bunyan

1678 ★ 4.3

The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

1881 ★ 3.8

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

1862 ★ 4.3

Hard Times

Charles Dickens

1854 ★ 3.9

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

1839 ★ 4.1

Why Nations Fail

Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson

2012 ★ 3.6

The bottom billion

Paul Collier

2007 ★ 4.0

The midwife

Jennifer Worth

2009 ★ 4.2

Assommoir

Émile Zola

1870 ★ 4.2

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

George Orwell

1956 ★ 3.7

Hand to Mouth

Linda Tirado

2014 ★ 4.3

Joy in the Morning

Betty Smith

2000 ★ 5.0

I Malavoglia di Giovanni Verga

Roger Grass, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Marie Lane et al.

1873 ★ 3.1

Dark Angel

V.C. Andrews

1986 ★ 5.0

The life you can save

Peter Singer

2009 ★ 4.0

If I Grow Up

Todd Strasser

2009 ★ 4.3

The Story of the Treasure Seekers

Edith Nesbit

1899 ★ 4.0

Poverty and development into the 21st century

Thomas, Alan, Tim Allen

2000 ★ 3.2

Fatta Eld

Suzanne Collins

2009 ★ 4.1

Fallen Hearts

V.C. Andrews

1988 ★ 4.3

Nickel and Dimed

Barbara Ehrenreich

2001 ★ 3.6

Behind the beautiful forevers

Katherine Boo

2011 ★ 3.9

The Dutch House

Ann Patchett

2019 ★ 3.8

Life at the Bottom

Theodore Dalrymple

2001 ★ 4.1

Tobacco Road

Erskine Caldwell

1940 ★ 3.7

I Capture the Castle

Dodie Smith

1948 ★ 4.6

Frog music

Emma Donoghue

2014 ★ 4.0