Start with high-confidence poverty & homelessness books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Seven Million Steps
Derrick Barnes, Christian Gregory
The Endless Steppe
Esther Hautzig
The Circuit Graphic Novel
Francisco Jiménez
There Are No Children Here
Alex Kotlowitz
$2.00 a Day
Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer
Reaching Out
Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond
A Place for US
James Ransome
Breaking Through
Black Potatoes
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Migrant Mother
Don Nardo
Invisible Child
Andrea Elliott
The Circuit
Nickel and Dimed
Barbara Ehrenreich, Sara Bershtel
Free Lunch
Rex Ogle
Fire in the Ashes
Jonathan Kozol
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo
Poverty and Hunger
Louise Spilsbury
The American Way of Eating
Tracie McMillan
Poor Economics
Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
The Gardener of Alcatraz
Emma Bland Smith
