Homelessness and Food Insecurity Books for Adults

Updated March 26, 2026
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Dignity : seeking respect in back row America
Arnade, Chris
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A profound book.... It will break your heart but also leave you with hope." -J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy " A deeply empathetic book." -The Economist With stark photo essays and unforgettable...
Hand to mouth : living in bootstrap America
Tirado, Linda.
Paper Book
One of the Best 5 Books of 2014 — Esquire "I’ve been waiting for this book for a long time. Well, not this book, because I never imagined that the book I was waiting for would be so devastatingly smart and funny, so consistently entertaining and unflinchingly on...
Poverty, by America
Desmond, Matthew
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a "provocative and compelling" (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR...

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