Homelessness and Food Insecurity Books for Adults

Updated March 26, 2026
Drag items up and down to your preferred order then select the "Save Order" button.
Burntown : a novel
McMahon, Jennifer
Paper Book
Ashford, Vermont, might look like your typical sleepy New England college town, but to the shadowy residents who live among the remains of its abandoned mills and factories, it's known as "Burntown."       Eva Sandeski, known as "Necco" on the street, has been a part of...
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...

Library staff! You can create and contribute to lists. Contact your catalog administrator or log in here.