Dive deeper in Sonoma County Library's Together at the Table series by exploring the following materials.
MATERIALS LIST
Explore this topic further through extensive booklists of materials available to check out in the library. Materials are available for kids, families, teens and adults and come in a variety of formats including fiction, nonfiction, picture books, DVDs and graphic novels.
The materials on this list offer people of all ages opportunities to dig deeper into the topic of income inequality in America, the economy, and how this topic affects our country.
NONFICTION
The Broken Ladder: how inequality affects the way we think, live, and die by Keith Payne
Dream Hoarders: how the American upper middle class is leaving everyone else in the dust, why that is a problem and what to do about it by Richard Reeves
Glass House: the 1% economy and the shattering of the all-American town by Brian Alexander
Nickel and Dimed: on (not) getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Requiem for the American Dream by Noam Chomsky
Tales of Two Americas: stories of inequality in a divided nation edited by John Freeman
The Unbanking of America: how the new middle class survives by Lisa Servon
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Picketty
The Price of Inequality by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Toxic Inequality by Thomas M. Shapiro
The Great Divide: unequal societies and what we can do about them by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Falling Behind: how rising inequality harms the middle class by Robert H. Frank
$2.00 a Day: living on almost nothing in America by Kathryn Edin & H. Luke Shaefer
Saving Capitalism: for the many, not the few by Robert B. Reich
The Great Leveler: violence and the history of inequality from the stone age to the 21st century by Walter Scheidel
Born on Third Base: a one-percenter makes the case for tackling inequality, bringing wealth home, and committing to the common good by Chuck Collins
The Great Escape: health, wealth, and the origins of inequality by Angus Deaton
The Divide: American injustice in the age of the wealth gap by Matt Taibbi
The Vanishing Middle Class by Peter Temin
5 Easy Theses: commonsense solutions to America's greatest economic challenges by James Martin Stone
Hillbilly Elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis by J.D. Vance
FICTION
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Capital by John Lanchester
Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Subprimes by Karl Taro Greenfield
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Other Wes Moore by Wes MooreTEENS
The Bullie$ of Wall St: this is how greed messed up our economy by Sheila Bair
Munmun by Jesse Andrews
The Not-So-Great Depression by Amy Goldman Koss
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
CHILDREN'S
A Bike Like Sergio's by Maribeth Boelets
Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate
Maddi's Fridge by Lois Brandt
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Pena
Cloud Tea Monkeys by Mal Peet
Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts
Beatrice's Goat by Page McBrier
Love As Strong As Ginger by Lenore Look 
Spuds by Karen Hesse
The Dumpster Diver by Janet Wong
Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss
Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson
Si, Se Puede! Yes, We Can! Janitor Strike in L.A. by Diana Cohn
Peppe the Lamplighter by Elisa Bartone
The Mighty Miss Malione by Christopher Curtis
The Whispering Road by Livi MichaelDOCUMENTARIES & FILMS
Inequality for All (2013)
Trading Places (Rated R)
Capitalism: A Love Story (Rated R) 
Freakonomics (Rated PG-13)
I.O.U.S.A (Rated PG)
Inside Job (Rated PG-13)
Too Big To Fail (Rated PG-13)
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