Homelessness and Food Insecurity Books for Adults

Updated March 26, 2026
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Burntown : a novel
McMahon, Jennifer
Paper Book
On the surface, Ashford, Vermont, seems like a quaint New England college town, but to those who live among the shadowy remains of its abandoned mills and factories, and beneath its towering steel bridges, it's known as Burntown.  Eva Sandeski, who goes by the name Necco on the...
Hand to mouth : living in bootstrap America
Tirado, Linda.
Paper Book
The real-life Nickel and Dimed--the author of the wildly popular "Poverty Thoughts" essay tells what it's like to be working poor in America. ONE OF THE FIVE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS OF THE YEAR--Esquire "DEVASTATINGLY SMART AND FUNNY. I am the author of Nickel and Dimed...
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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