📚 Poverty

Books with poverty on their catalogue record, first published between 1847 and 2022, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject poverty in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 17,019 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Misère de la philosophie	Karl Marx	1847	71
	Progress and poverty	Henry George	1879	58
	Nickel and Dimed	Barbara Ehrenreich	2001	36
	Quarto de Despejo	Carolina Maria de Jesus	1960	22
	Poverty	Hunter, Robert	1904	20
	Why Nations Fail	Daron Acemoglu	2012	15
	Poor Economics	Abhijit Banerjee	2011	10
	A world of three zeros	Muhammad Yunus	2014	8
	The nature of mass poverty	John Kenneth Galbraith	1979	6
	Understanding Poverty	Pete Alcock	1993	6
	A framework for understanding poverty	Ruby K. Payne	1995	6
	Hand to Mouth	Linda Tirado	2014	6
	Poverty and famines	Amartya Sen	1981	5
	Les mirages de l'aide internationale	David Sogge	2002	5
	Poverty and famines	Amartya Sen	1981	4
	The Power of Productivity	William W. Lewis	2004	4
	Understanding poverty	Abhijit Banerjee	2006	4
	The White Man's Burden	William Russell Easterly	2006	4
	The bottom billion	Paul Collier	2007	4
	Poor People	William T. Vollmann	2007	4
	The workhouse	Norman Longmate	1974	3
	The wealth and poverty of nations	David S. Landes	1998	3
	When helping hurts	Steve Corbett	2009	3
	$2. 00 a Day	Kathryn J. Edin	2015	3
	Good Rich People	Eliza Jane Brazier	2022	3
	Without a silver spoon	Eddie Iroh	1981	2
	In defense of elitism	William A. Henry III	1994	2
	Perangkap kemiskinan	Bagong Suyanto	1995	2
	The life you can save	Peter Singer	2009	2
	The blue sweater	Jacqueline Novogratz	2009	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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